Contributors
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- Contributors
Fritz Breithaupt teaches German and Comparative Literature at the Indiana University in Bloomington. His is the author of Jenseits der Bilder: Goethes Politik der Wahrnehmung (2000) and two forthcoming books Der Ich-Effekt des Geldes. Zur Geschichte einer Legitimationsfigur (2008) and Kulturen der Empathie (2009).
Jürgen Fohrmann, prof. of German Literature and Theory, University of Bonn, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. Fields of Interest: Theory and Literature, Media Studies, History of Philologies, Cultural History. Last Books (Selection): Schiffbruch mit Strandrecht. Der ästhetische Imperativ in der ‚Kunstperiode’ (1998). Jürgen Fohrmann/Erhard Schüttpelz (Eds.), Die Kommunikation der Medien (2004). Jürgen Fohrmann (Ed.), Rhetorik. Figuration und Performanz (2004). Jürgen Fohrmann (Ed.), Gelehrte Kommunikation. Wissenschaft und Medium zwischen dem 16. und 20. Jahrhundert (2005).
Eva Geulen is a professor of German at the University of Bonn. Books (Selection): Worthörig wider Willen. Darstellungsproblematik und Sprachreflexion bei Adalbert Stifter (1992), Das Ende der Kunst. Lesarten eines Gerüchts nach Hegel (2002, engl. 2006), Giorgio Agamben zur Einführung (2005, jap. 2007).
Erich Hörl is a professor of Philosophy and Technology of the Media at the Institute for Media Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. In his research he focuses on the relation of labour and technology, machine theory, history and philosophy of intuition and the question of cybernetization. Erich Hörl is the author of Die heiligen Kanäle. Über die archaische Illusion der Kommunikation (2005). Recently he edited together with Michael Hagner Die Transformation des Humanen. Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte der Kybernetik (2008).
Eva Horn, professor of German Studies at Basel University, recent publications: Der geheime Krieg. Verrat, Spionage und moderne Literatur (2007); Eva Horn (ed.): Dark Powers. Conspiracies in History and Fiction, New German Critique 103 (2008).
Albrecht Koschorke is a professor of German literature and literary studies at the University of Konstanz and a regular visiting professor at the University of Chicago. He received the Leibniz prize in 2003. He is spokesman of the graduate program ‘Figures/Figurations of the Third’ and member of the Center [End Page 686] of Excellence ‘Cultural Foundations of Integration’ at the University of Constance. His publications include: Körperströme und Schriftverkehr. Mediologie des 18. Jahrhunderts (Bodily Fluids and Writing Culture. Mediology of the 18th Century) (2003); The Holy Family and Its Legacy (2003); Der fiktive Staat. Konstruktionen des politischen Körpers in der Geschichte Europas (The Fictitious State. Constructions of the Body Politic in European History) (2007 (co-author)).
Detlef Kremer is a professor of German literature at the University of Münster. His work focuses on the literature of the Enlightenment, Classicism and Romanticism as well as on film theory and media theory. His publications include: Wezel. Über die Nachtseite der Aufklärung (1985), Kafka. Die Erotik des Schreibens (1989, 21998), Romantische Metamorphosen. E.T.A. Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1993), Peter Greenaways Filme. Vom Überleben der Bilder und Bücher (1995), Prosa der Romantik (1996), E.T.A. Hoffmann. Erzählungen und Romane (1999), Romantik. Lehrbuch Germanistik (2001, 22003), Literaturwissenschaft als Medientheorie (2004).
Ulrike Landfester is a professor of German at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She received the research prize of the Bettina von Arnim Society in 2002. Her fields of interest include Goethe and Romanticism, crime novels and poetics of the body. Books (Selection): Der Dichtung Schleier. Zur poetischen Funktion von Kleidung in Goethes Frühwerk (1995), Selbstsorge als Staatskunst. Bettine von Arnims politisches Werk (2000).
Stephan Pabst is an assistant professor at the German Department, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität (Jena). Recent books: Fiktionen des ‚inneren Menschen’. Die literarische Umwertung der Physiognomik bei Jean Paul und E. T. A. Hoffmann (2007); with Astrid Bauereisen and Achim Vesper (eds.), Kunst und Wissen. Ästhetik und Erkenntnistheorie im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (2008).
Bianca Schroeder is a graduate student in German at the Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation examines the ways in which twentieth and twenty-first century literature invite the reader to participate in the creation of the work.
Marcus Twellmann is an assistant professor of German at the University of Bonn. He is the author of Das Drama der Souveränität. Hugo von Hofmannsthal und Carl Schmitt (2004). His is currently completing a...
