Contributors
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Marc Caplan was, from 2006–2014, the Zelda & Myer Tandetnik Professor of Yiddish Literature, Language, and Culture in the department of German & Romance Languages at the Johns Hopkins University. In that capacity he has enjoyed the collegiality of many friends and co-workers, none more appreciated in this instance than Eberhard Froehlich, without whose diligence and hard work this issue of the MLN could never have appeared in print. All of his colleagues in the German program at Johns Hopkins, along with all the contributors, have his appreciation and gratitude.
Yael Almog is a Doctoral Candidate in the German Department at UC Berkeley. Her dissertation Hebrew Reminiscences: Global Religion, Poetics and Politics in the Rise of Hermeneutic Thinking demonstrates that salient notions of modern hermeneutics—such as reading through empathy, contextualization, and translation theory—were shaped in Enlightenment debates on how to read the Old Testament. The project investigates the secularist tensions behind this interpretive legacy. Almog co-edited the volume Neighbors and Neighborhoods in the German-Speaking World (Cambridge Scholars, 2012), which scrutinizes instances of “neighborliness” in German literature in conjunction with recent developments of the concept in continental philosophy.
Alexis C. Briley is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Her dissertation, Hölderlin and the Measure of Enthusiasm, argues for a renewed understanding of Hölderlin’s poetics as the measure between sobriety and enthusiasm.
David L. Clark is Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies and Associate Member of the Health Studies Program in the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University. He has published widely in critical theory, critical animal studies, post-Enlightenment philosophy, and British Romantic literature and culture. [End Page 680]
Kata Gellen is Assistant Professor of German at Duke University. She is currently completing a manuscript entitled Kafka and Noise, and has published essays on Elias Canetti, Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, architecture and hearing in German literary modernism, and classical Weimar cinema in various journals, including Colloquia Germanica, Germanic Review, Journal of Austrian Studies, and Modernism/Modernity.
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 (Diaphanes, 2011). Her current book project focuses on the intersection between literature and hermeneutics around 1800.
Rachel Seelig is a Mandel Scholar at the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on multilingualism in modern Jewish literature. She is currently preparing a manuscript about intersections and divisions among German-Jewish writers and Hebrew and Yiddish migrant writers in Berlin during the Weimar period.
Wayne Stables is an independent scholar. He now lives in Rome and is at work on Digging the Pit of Babel, a book on Walter Benjamin and Freud. He is also preparing various speculative studies, such as an essay on Thomas Bernhard, madness and linguistic skepticism, for publication.
Gabriel Trop is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has written articles about Wieland, Hölderlin, and Goethe, among others, and a book manuscript entitled Poetry as a Way of Life: Aesthetics and Askesis in the German Eighteenth Century is forthcoming with Northwestern University Press.
Alexander Verdolini is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale University and an exchange scholar in the German Department at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen. His recent work centers on the poetics of memory and translation and morphologies of language and life. [End Page 681]
Tobias Wilke is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University. He is the author of two books, Medien der Unmittelbarkeit: Dingkonzepte und Wahrnehmungstechniken 1918–1939 (2010), and Einführung in die Literatur der Jahrhundertwende (2nd ed. 2011; co-authored with Dorothee Kimmich), as well as the co-editor of a special issue of Grey Room on “Walter Benjamin’s Media Tactics” (2010), and most recently, of the volume Gefühl und Genauigkeit: Empirische Ästhetik um 1900 (2013). [End...
