Contributors
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Johannes Birke is a Ph.D. student in the German Program at the Johns Hopkins University and holds a Magister Artium degree in German Literature from the Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald. His current research focuses on the interplay between architecture and literature, its epistemology and poetics. Further projects include the performance of flying in Jean Paul and the narrative work of Thomas Bernhard.
Benjamin DeForest is a Ph.D. student in the Humanities Center at the Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century thought and literature, the development of modern conceptions of knowledge and disciplinarity, and aesthetic theory.
Eric Downing is Professor of German and Comparative Literature and adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His books include Double Exposures: Repetition and Realism (2000) and After Images: Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis (2006). He is currently co-editing a volume on reading practices and working on a study of divinatory reading in the ancient and modern world.
Alexander Gelley is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Narrative Crossings: Theory and Pragmatics of Prose Fiction (1987) and essays on the modern novel and literary theory, and the editor of Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity (Stanford University Press, 1995). His research interests include Romanticism, contemporary theory, and German-Jewish literature and culture. He is preparing a book on Walter Benjamin's later writings.
Barbara Hahn is Distinguished Professor of German at Vanderbilt University. Her books include: "Antworten Sie mir". Rahel Levin Varnhagens Briefwechsel (1990); Unter falschem Namen. Von der schwierigen Autorschaft der Frauen (1991); Die Jüdin Pallas Athene. Auch eine Theorie der Moderne (2002; engl.: 2005); Hannah Arendt—Leidenschaften, Menschen und Bücher (2005). In 2011, she published Rahel Levin Varnhagen's Buch des Andenkens für ihre Freunde (6 vols.). She is [End Page 667] currently writing a book on dreams in the 20th century and one on Hannah Arendt's encounters with American poets.
Jocelyn Holland is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her most recent publications include German Romanticism and Science: the Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter (Routledge, 2009), and Key Texts of Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776-1810) on the Science and Art of Nature, a bilingual edition of Ritter's work. She is currently working on a study provisionally titled Instruments of Reason, Translations of Knowledge: Perspectives on Eighteenth-century Technology.
Andrea Krauß is Assistant Professor of German at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Zerbrechende Tradierung. Zu Kontexten des Schauspiels „IchundIch" von Else Lasker-Schüler (Passagen, 2002); Lenz unter anderem. Aspekte einer Theorie der Konstellation (forthcoming from Diaphanes, 2011). Her current book project focuses on the intersection between literature and hermeneutics around 1800.
Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff is Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin) and taught German Literature at the Universities in Berlin, Hamburg, Greifswald, Cincinnati, and Bielefeld. Her publications include Verpflanzungsgebiete. Wissenskulturen und Poetik der Transplantation (Munich, forthcoming), 'Engineering Life'. Narrationen vom Menschen in Biomedizin, Kultur und Literatur (co-editor, Berlin 2008) and Der versehrte Körper. Revisionen des klassizistischen Schönheitsideals (Göttingen 2001).
Michael G. Levine is Professor of German, Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival (Stanford University Press, 2006) and Writing Through Repression: Literature, Censorship, Psychoanalysis (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), and is currently completing a new book, A Weak Messianic Power: Constellations of the Future in Twentieth-Century German-Jewish Thought, under contract with Fordham University Press.
Jonathan Luftig is a Lecturer at Morgan State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from S.U.N.Y. Buffalo. His research focuses on British nineteenth-century and early Modernist literature in the context of European intellectual history. He is currently working on a book on Kant, Wordsworth and Thomas De Quincey. [End Page 668]
James McFarland studied philosophy at Oberlin College and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. He...
