Contributors
- Contributors
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), philosopher, sociologist, composer, and musicologist, is one of the twentieth century's major figures in cultural criticism. Along with Max Horkheimer, he was a leading figure of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Fleeing the Nazis, he spent the war years in the United States and returned to Germany in 1949 to teach and reestablish the Institut für Sozial-forschung at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Adorno's books include Dialectic of Enlightenment (with Horkheimer), Negative Dialectics, Aesthetic Theory (University of Minnesota Press), and Philosophy of New Music (forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press).
Karin Bauer is associate professor and chair of the department of German studies at McGill University. Her book, Adorno's Nietzschean Narratives: Critiques of Ideology, Readings of Wagner, was published in 1999. She has published articles on a variety of topics and authors, including Ingeborg Bachmann, Botho Strauß, Herta Müller, Jürgen Habermas, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and Edgar Hilsenrath.
Fabio Akcelrud Durão received his PhD in 2003 from the Literature Program at Duke University. He is currently professor for Anglo-Germanic literatures at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
Peter Uwe Hohendahl is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German and Comparative Literature and director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies at Cornell University. Among his numerous publications are The Institution of Criticism (1982), Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany 1830–1870 (1989), Re-appraisals: Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory (1991), Prismatic Thought: Theodor W. Adorno (1995), and German Studies in the United States: A Historical Handbook (2003). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Robert Hullot-Kentor teaches philosophy, literature, and the arts at Southampton College. He has written extensively on Theodor [End Page 283] Adorno and translated several of his major works, including Aesthetic Theory, Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic, and the forthcoming Philosophy of New Music (all available from the University of Minnesota Press). His collected essays on Adorno are in preparation for Columbia University Press.
Robert Kaufman is assistant professor of English and affiliated assistant professor of German studies at Stanford University. His essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry in relation to aesthetics and critical theory have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals and collections, including Critical Inquiry, October, American Poetry Review, Poetics Today, New German Critique, Modern Language Quarterly. He is completing a book titled Negative Romanticism: Adornian Aesthetics in Keats, Shelley, and Modern Poetry.
Peter Krapp is assistant professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of Déjà Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and coeditor (with Andrew McNamara) of Medium Cool (2002).
Richard Leppert, a musicologist, teaches in the department of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. He is author of seven books, including The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body; Music and Image: Domesticity, Ideology, and Socio-Cultural Formation in Eighteenth-Century England; Art and the Committed Eye: The Cultural Functions of Imagery. He coedited (with Susan McClary) Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance, and Reception and most recently edited an edition of selected Essays on Music by Theodor W. Adorno. He is currently at work on a book called Musical Extremes: The Dialectics of Virtuosity.
Catherine Liu is a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in 2004–2005 at Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan where she teaches in the Institutes of Sound and Image and Art History and Art Criticism. She is completing a book titled 80s Theory: Astrology, Celebrity, Conspiracy. She will be a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine in 2005. [End Page 284]
Martin Scherzinger is a composer and assistant professor of music at the Eastman School of Music. His research spans the fields of music theory, historical musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and philosophy as they intersect with European and African music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His compositions, which explore African modes of making music in the context of a Western instrumentarium, have been performed in Canada, the United...
