Contributors
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Josh Alvizu is a PhD candidate in the Department of German at Yale University. His dissertation, Montage Praxis: Meyerhold, Brecht, Eisenstein, Tretyakov, Benjamin, explores the intermedial practice of montage as a form of militant modernist political aesthetics. He also works on surveillance, ecology, Paul Scheerbart, and alien capital.
Fritz Breithaupt is professor and chair of Germanic Studies at Indiana University. Among his recent publications are Kultur der Empathie (Suhrkamp, 2009) and Kulturen der Ausrede. Eine Erzähltheorie (Suhrkamp, 2012). In his current work, he asks how narrative thinking influences moral choice.
Jürgen Brokoff is Professor of German at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He has published widely in German Modern Literature, Literary Theory, Contemporary Literature, and Literature and War. In 2010 and 2011 he was a Feodor Lynen and Alumni Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Yale University, New Haven. His most book is Geschichte der reinen Poesie. Von der Weimarer Klassik bis zur historischen Avantgarde (2010, 2nd edition).
Susan Derwin is Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. Her most recent book, Rage is the Subtext: Readings in Holocaust Literature and Film, focuses on narrative-making as a means of metabolizing trauma in the aftermath of Holocaust survival. For the last four years she has facilitated a writing workshop for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Peter Fenves, Joan and Serapta Harrison Professor of Literature at Northwestern University, is the author of several books, most recently The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time.
Paul Fleming is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, and director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies at Cornell [End Page 730] University. He has published widely with recent essays on Freud (parapraxis), Blumenberg (Sorge), Simmel (flirtation), and Storm (kasus). His monographs are Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism (2009) and The Pleasures of Abandonment: Jean Paul and the Life of Humor (2006). He has translated Hans Blumenberg’s Care Crosses the River (2010) and Peter Szondi’s An Essay on the Tragic (2002), and is co-editor of the book series Paradigms: Literature & the Human Sciences (de Gruyter, commencing 2014).
Alexander Gelley is Professor of Comparative Literature, emeritus, at the University of California, Irvine. He is the editor of Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity (1995); and the author of Narrative Crossings. Theory and Pragmatics of Prose Fiction (1987); Benjamin’s Passages: Dreaming, Awakening (forthcoming); and essays on the novel and literary theory.
Eva Geulen is Professor for German Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Recent publications include Giorgio Agamben zur Einführung (Junius Verlag, 2005, 2nd edition 2009) and, among others, essays on morphology and Adorno; her central topic of current research is Goethe’s morphology.
Patrick Greaney is associate professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of Untimely Beggar: Poverty and Power from Baudelaire to Benjamin (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) and Quotational Practices: Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2014).
Jason Groves is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Integrated Humanities at Yale University. He is the co-editor of Feedback, a curated blog in critical and cultural theory at Open Humanities Press, and his essays on literature, translation, theater, and ecological thought have appeared in The Global South, Modern Language Notes, Performance Studies, Society and Space, and The Yearbook of Comparative Literature. He is currently completing two monographs: Mineral Imaginaries and Walking Out.
Marcus Heim is a third year graduate student at Johns Hopkins’ GRLL PhD program. He is currently in Berlin at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School where he is working on his thesis that deals with the production and experience of literary space in Peter Weiss’ Aesthetics of Resistance. [End Page 731]
Volker Kaiser has been Chair of the German Department of the University of Virginia (2006–09 and 2010–13) and Director of the Center for German Studies at UVA (2008–13). He has published books and essays on German poetry, among them the monograph Das Echo jeder Verschattung. Reflexion...
