Contributors
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Christiane Arndt is an Assistant Professor at Queen’s University, Canada. She holds a Ph.D. in German Literature from the Johns Hopkins University and an Erstes Staatsexamen from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
Konstanze Baron studied History and French at Oxford (1997–2001) and in Paris (2001–2002). She is currently a doctoral candidate in Literature at the University of Konstanz and is a member of the interdisciplinary graduate program devoted to the topic “The Figure of the Third.”
Anne Flannery is a graduate student in German at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include urban space in nineteenth and twentieth-century German and Austrian literature and the history of photography. She is currently working on a photographic contribution for the book Searching for Sebald due out in 2007.
Willi Goetschel is a Professor of German and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Constituting Critique: Kant’s Writing as Critical Praxis (Duke UP 1994) and Spinoza’s Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine (Wisconsin UP 2004). He is also the editor of the collected works of Hermann Levin Goldschmidt. He is currently working on a study of Heinrich Heine and critical theory and a book on modern Jewish thought from Moses Mendelssohn to Jacques Derrida.
Joshua Robert Gold received his B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his M.A. and Ph.D. in German from Princeton University. He is currently completing a book on poetics, history, and the sacred in the writing of Friedrich Hölderlin. A second article on Benjamin, “The Dwarf in the Machine: A Theological Figure and Its Sources,” appeared in Modern Language Notes 121 (2006).
Michael G. Levine is an Associate Professor of German at Rutgers University. The author of Writing Through Repression: Literature, Censorship, Psychoanalysis (Johns Hopkins UP, 1994) and The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony and the Question of Holocaust Survival (Stanford UP, 2006), he is also the translator of Samuel Weber’s Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan’s Dislocation of Psychoanalysis (Cambridge UP, 1991). His current work at the intersection of literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and Jewish mysticism focuses on the writings of Benjamin, Celan, Derrida, Kafka, and Henry Roth.
Chris Long is a graduate student in German at the Johns Hopkins University. She is writing a dissertation on problems of theatricality in Heinrich von Kleist, Bertolt Brecht, and Heiner Müller.
Bettine Menke is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Erfurt. She is the author of Sprachfiguren. Name—Allegorie—Bild nach Walter Benjamin (1991) and Prosopopoiia. Stimme und Text bei Brentano, Hoffman, Kleist und Kafka (2000). She is also the editor with Erika Greber of Manier, Manieren, Manierismen (2003) and Stigma. Poetiken der Körperinschrift (2004) with Barbara Vinken.
Sarah Pourciau is a graduate student in the Department of German at Princeton University. She is currently completing a dissertation entitled Explications: Word Histories of High Modernism, which investigates etymological approaches to language in philosophical, linguistic, and poetic texts from the early twentieth century. Her publications include “Istanbul, 1945: Erich Auerbach’s Philology of Extremity” (Arcadia, 2006), “Disarming the Double: Kant in Defense of Philosophy (1766)” (Germanic Review, 2006), and “Bodily Negation: Carl Schmitt on the Meaning of Meaning” (MLN, 2005).
Thomas Schestag is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of German at Northwestern University. He is also a Privatdozent in the Comparative Literature Department at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. His most important book publications include para-(Munich 1991), Parerga: (Munich 1991), Mantisrelikte (Basel 1998), and Die unbewältigte Sprache. Hannah Arendts Theorie der Dichtung (Basel 2006). He edited the facsimile of an unpublished dossier by Francis Ponge, L’Opinion changée quant aux fleurs / Änderung der Ansicht über Blumen (Basel 2005) and wrote the philological commentary accompanying the text. Among his forthcoming books are a collection of essays entitled Fremde Wörter and a work in progress entitled Tmesis – der Literatur. He has written numerous essays on literature, philology, translation theory, and the philosophy of language.
Rochelle Tobias is a Professor of German at the Johns Hopkins University. In 2006 she published The Discourse of Nature in the...
