Contributors
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Eric Baker is currently completing his doctoral dissertation “Atomism and the Bawdy Sublime: Lucretius’ De rerum natura in the Aesthetic Theory and Practice of Burke, Kant, and Schiller” at the Johns Hopkins University. He has published on the parodic reception of the sublime, and has an article forthcoming on Kafka’s “Die Bäume.”
Olaf Berwald is Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies at Emory University. Among his publications are his monograph Philipp Melanchthons Sicht der Rhetorik (1994) and the forthcoming books Introduction to the Works of Peter Weiss and Augen Zeugen: Skopographien des Selbstentzugs bei Günderrode, Hölderlin und Fichte.
Kenneth S. Calhoon is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon. Recent publications include “Blind Gestures: Chaplin, Diderot, Lessing,” MLN (2000), “The Gothic Imaginary: Goethe in Strasbourg,” DVJS (2001), and “Leinwand: Zur Physiognomie des Raums in F. W. Murnaus Nosferatu,” in Sigrid Lange, ed., Raumästhetik in der Moderne (2001). He is editor of Peripheral Visions: The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema (2001).
Rüdiger Campe is currently a Visiting Professor in the German Department at the Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Affekt und Ausdruck. Zur Umwandlung der literarischen Rede im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (1990) and Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit (forthcoming), and co-editor of Geschichten der Physiognomik (1996). His fields of work and publication are: theory and history of rhetoric and poetics, knowledge and representation, baroque Trauerspiel, and literature around 1800.
Peter Fenves is a Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. He is the author of A Peculiar Fate: Metaphysics and World-History in Kant, “Chatter”: Language and History in Kierkegaard, Arresting Language—From Leibniz to Benjamin (forthcoming), and Late Kant: Essays on Failure (forthcoming). He is also the editor of Raising the Tone of Philosophy and “The Spirit of Poesy” as well as numerous articles on philosophical and literary topics.
Paul Fleming is a doctoral candidate in the German Department at Johns Hopkins University. He has published essays on Hoelderlin, Grimmelshausen, Winckelmann, and Kommerell. He is currently completing a dissertation on Jean Paul.
Eva Geulen teaches in the German Department at New York University. She is the author of Worthörig wider Willen: Erzählproblematik und Sprachreflexion bei Stifter and has published articles on Adorno, Benjamin, Th. Mann, Nietzsche, R. Walser, and others. She is currently completing a study entitled “Das Ende der Kunst. Lesarten eines Gerüchts nach Hegel.”
Barbara Hahn is Professor of German literature at Princeton University. She published on German-Jewish writers, problems of gender and genre, constellations of writing. Currently, she is working on a book on German-Jewish intellectual women, and on “Sites of Knowledge.”
Albrecht Koschorke teaches German Literature at the University of Konstanz. He is the author of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: Die Inszenierung einer Perversion (1988), Die Geschichte des Horizonts (1990), Körperströme und Schriftverkehr: Mediologie des 18. Jahrhunderts (1999) and Die Heilige Familie und ihre Folgen (2000).
Markus Krajewski works as cultural historian at the Chair for Aesthetics and History of Media at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Currently his main subjects are the cultural history of light bulbs, and administration and the efficiency movement around 1900. A book-length study on the history of card catalogs and indexes will be published this year.
Lieselotte E. Kurth-Voigt is Professor Emerita of German Literature at the Johns Hopkins University. Her many publications, mainly on eighteenthcentury literature, include Continued Existence, Reincarnation, and the Power of Sympathy in Classical Weimar (1999).
Vera B. Profit is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Notre Dame. She has three books to her credit. In the first, she attempted to interpret the late poetry of the bi-lingual writer, Iwan Goll. The second concerned the French influence on Karl Krolow’s autobiographical poems. Menschlich: Gespräche mit Karl Krolow is her most recent volume. Currently she is working on a study, tentatively entitled: Toward a Literary Definition of Evil.
Antónia Szabari is a doctoral student in the Humanities Center at the Johns Hopkins University. Her areas of interest lie in fifteenth- and sixteenthcentury French poetry and modern aesthetics. She is currently working on a translation of...
