Contributors
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Anna-Lisa Baumeister is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon and a visiting student in the department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at the Johns Hopkins University during the academic year 2014/15. Her work is situated in the long eighteenth century, with a focus on the aesthetics of nature, translation theory, drama, and the relationship between literature and philosophy.
Naomi Beeman teaches Western Thought and Freshman-Year Seminar at the Kansas City Art Institute. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Emory University in 2012. She is currently working on two book projects, tentatively titled Sebald’s Realist Revisions and Kafka’s Break Through Experience. She teaches and writes on a range of topics in nineteenth to twenty-first-century German, French and comparative literature, visual studies and new media, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. She has published on Hoffmann and Freud, Nietzsche and Musil, and the filmmaker Jørgen Leth.
Susan Bernstein is Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century – Performing Music and Literature in Heine, Liszt, and Baudelaire (1998) and of Housing Problems – Architecture and Literature in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger (2008). She is currently working on a project entitled The Other Synaesthesia.
Claudia Breger is Professor of Germanic Studies, Chair of Gender Studies, and affiliated with Communication and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first-century film, literature and performance, as well as film/media, literary, and cultural theory. Recent publications include An Aesthetics of Narrative Performance: Transnational Theater, Literature and Film in Contemporary Germany (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2012); “Configuring Affect: Complex Worldmaking in Fatih Akın’s Auf der anderen Seite/The Edge of Heaven,” Cinema Journal 54.1 (fall 2014). [End Page 693]
Jacob Denz is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of German at New York University. His research focuses on philosophy and literature around 1800 with a dissertation project on the relationship between law and feeling in the works of Kleist and other authors. He is also an organizer with NYU’s Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC-UAW Local 2110), currently the only recognized labor union for graduate employees at a private university in the United States.
Johannes Endres – PhD Universität Trier (1995), Habilitation Universität Leipzig (2004). Since summer 2015, he is Assistant Professor for ‘Nineteenth Century Art and Literature’ at the University of California, Riverside. Research areas: German and European literature and art in the ‘long’ nineteenth century; intersections of text, visual arts, music, intellectual history, natural sciences, and the history of science.
Jason Kavett, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, is currently a pensionnaire étranger at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris. His dissertation is concerned with transience and representation in the German baroque theater, and the reappearance of the Baroque in early twentieth-century literature and critical theory.
David D. Kim is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of California Los Angeles. His areas of research include contemporary German literature, fin-de-siècle Vienna, postcolonial and global studies, and digital humanities. He has recently completed a book manuscript, titled Parables for World Citizenship, and two co-edited volumes of essays – Imagining Human Rights (with Susanne Kaul, De Gruyter) and The Postcolonial World (with Jyotsna Singh, Routledge) – are forthcoming.
Bryan Klausmeyer is a PhD Candidate in German Literature at the Johns Hopkins University. In 2009 he received his BA in History from the University of Michigan, and since 2010 has been a member of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at the Johns Hopkins University. His dissertation, tentatively titled “Living Formations: The Vitality of Form around 1800 (G. C. Lichtenberg, Jean Paul, Goethe),” examines strategies of staging form and formation as open-ended processes in literary, autobiographical, and natural-scientific texts around 1800. [End Page 694]
Omid Mehrgan is a third-year graduate student in the Humanities Center at the Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to the Humanities Center he worked as a translator of theoretical books (German and...
