Contributors
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Caroline Domenghino is a doctoral candidate in German at the Johns Hopkins University. She holds both a master’s degree from the University of Basel, Switzerland, and from the Johns Hopkins University German Department. She is currently completing her dissertation on Ahndung in eighteenth-century German literature and philosophy.
Justus Fetscher taught Comparative Literature at Berlin’s Freie Universität, worked at the Zentrum für Literaturforschung (Berlin) and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia, at the University of Chicago and at Vanderbilt University in 1996, 1999, and 2009, respectively. He is currently teaching at Berlin’s Technical University (Institut für Literaturwissenschaft). His publications include Verzeichnungen. Kleists “Amphitryon” und seine Umschrift bei Goethe und Hofmannsthal (1998), two contributions to Ästhetische Grund-begriffe (2000–2005, ed. Karlheinz Barck, Vol. 2: “Fragment,” Vol. 6: “Zeitalter/Epoche”), Pictogrammatica. Die visuelle Organisation der Sinne in den Medienavant-garden (co-editor, together with Inge Münz-Koenen, 2006), and Bruchstückwerke. Stationen einer Ästhetik des Fragments (2010, forthcoming).
Thomas Forrer is an Assistant Professor of German at the University of Zurich where he received his Ph.D. with the dissertation Schauplatz/Landschaft – Orte der Genese von Wissenschaften und Künsten um 1750. Recent articles: Nachbilden, Übersetzen, »Wiederfinden«. Zu einer Poetologie der Wiederholung in Goethes »Westöstlichem Divan« (Variations, 2009); “Das Semikolon. Geistreiche Zutat,” in: Abbt/Kammasch: Punkt, Punkt, Komma, Strich. Geste, Gestalt und Bedeutung philosophischer Satzzeichen (Bielefeld, 2009).
Nicola Gess received her Ph.D. in German from Princeton University and is Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin of Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author of Gewalt der Musik. Literatur und Musikkritik um 1800 (Rombach, 2006) and co-editor of Hörstürze. Akustik und Gewalt im 20. Jahrhundert (Königshausen und Neumann, 2005) and Barocktheater heute. Wiederentdeckungen zwischen Wissenschaft und Bühne (Transcript, 2008). She is currently completing a book project on Figurationen primitiv(istisch)en Denkens. Zur Verschränkung von Ethnologie, Psychologie und Literatur im frühen 20. Jahrhundert, focusing on theories of metaphor and on Benn, Benjamin, and Musil. [End Page 728]
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).
Tove Holmes is a graduate student in German at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include eighteenth- to twentieth-century literature, narrative theory and the rise of the novel, material culture, visuality in literature, and the intersection of literature and painting. She is currently working on a dissertation which examines theories and techniques of representation in German Realism.
Andrea Krauß is a Visiting 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). She recently completed her second book entitled Lenz unter anderem: Aspekte einer Theorie der Konstellation (2010, forthcoming). Her current book project focuses on the intersection between literature and hermeneutics around 1800.
Niklaus Largier is a Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is also the chair of the Department of German. His most recent publications include In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal (Zone, 2007), Die Kunst des Begehrens: Dekadenz, Sinnlichkeit, und Askese (C. H. Beck, 2007), and “Mysticism, Modernity, and the Invention of Aesthetic Experience” (Representations 105, 2009). He is currently working on a study of concepts of possibility.
Susanne Lüdemann is an Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. She holds a Ph.D. in German Literature from the University of Freiburg (Germany), and a Habilitation from the University of Konstanz (Germany). Her research interests include German literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth century (especially nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose and drama), contemporary literary theory, and aesthetics. She has also worked extensively on social theory, political theory, and psychoanalytic theory. She is currently working on a book on Jacques Derrida.
Sabine Mainberger is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn. She is the author of...
