 |
 |
Department Faculty - Theatre & FilmDavid Bathrick
David Bathrick, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor and Chair of Theatre, Film & Dance and Professor of German Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, did his graduate work at the University of Chicago, where he received a Ph.D. in Germanic languages and literatures in 1970. From 1970-1987 he was a Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin, when he joined the German Studies, Theatre, Film & Dance Departments and Jewish Studies Program at Cornell. Bathrick has been a visiting professor at universities in Germany and the United States. He was chair of the German Studies Department at Cornell from 1991-1994 and was chair of the Theatre, Film & Dance Department from1995 - 2002. His publications include The Dialectic and the Early Brecht (1976), Modernity and the Text (1989, co-edited with Andreas Huyssen), The Powers of Speech: The Politics of Culture in the GDR (1995), for which he was awarded the 1996 DAAD/GSA Book of the Year Prize, and numerous articles on the theory and history of 20th century European culture. He is a co-founder and co-editor of New German Critique, an interdisciplinary journal of German studies. His areas of specialization include the history and theory of modern drama, 20th century German literature, critical theory, Weimar culture, the cultural politics of East Germany, European film, Holocaust studies, and Nazi cinema. Contact info: |
|
| Cornell University 2003 College of Arts and Sciences |
|