Contributors
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Jocelyn Holland received her Ph.D. in German Studies from Johns Hopkins University in 2003. She has taught at UC Santa Barbara as Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies and is currently a Research Professor of Comparative Literature at the California Institute of Technology. Her book publications are German Romanticism and Science: the Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter (Routledge 2009), Key Texts by Johann Wilhelm Ritter on the Science and Art of Nature (Brill 2010), and Instrument of Reason: Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800 (Bloomsbury 2019). She has also co-edited special journal editions on topics ranging from the concept of equilibrium around 1800, the aesthetics of the tool, theories and technologies of time-keeping, and the role of the Archimedean point in modernity.
Karin Krauthausen is a research associate in the Cluster Matters of Activity at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin where she works as a literary scholar and cultural scientist. She earned her doctoral degree with a thesis on drawing and sight in Paul Valéry’s work and for several years was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. From January 2016 to December 2018 she was co-leader of the research priority area Active Matter in the Cluster Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An interdisciplinary laboratory at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Her present research focus is design procedures in the arts and sciences, the relation of realism and structuralism, and poetics of history in the 20th century.
Joel Lande is Assistant Professor at in the Department of German at Princeton University, where was previously a member of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. He is the author of Persistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature (Cornell, 2018); his article publications have focused literature, philosophy, and the history of science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In addition to a [End Page 670] collectively authored history of literary beginnings, his current book project investigates the constitutive role of the unknowable in the formation of eighteenth-century literature, philosophy, and science.
Carolina Malagon is currently completing a dissertation on G.C. Lichtenberg, J.W. Ritter, and the ‘chemical revolution’ in the Department of German at Princeton University.
Sarah Pourciau is a research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung. She previously taught for several years as an assistant professor in the German Department of Princeton University; she has also taught at Stanford University and at the Technische Universität Berlin. She is the author of The Writing of Spirit: Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science (Fordham University Press, 2017), along with articles on Adorno, Auerbach, Heidegger, Hofmannsthal, Kant, Kleist, Schmitt, Schoenberg, and Weiss. She is currently completing a monograph about long genres and time concepts in the Austrian modernist context.
Kirk Wetters is a professor in Yale University’s department of Germanic Languages and Literature. His current work pursues questions of legitimacy, illegitimacy, and legitimation in a wide range of literary and theoretical authors. His two monographs are Demonic History from Goethe to the Present (Northwestern UP 2014) and The Opinion System: Impasses of the Public Sphere from Hobbes to Habermas (Fordham UP 2008). Together with Lars Friedrich and Eva Geulen, he coedited Das Dämonische: Schicksale einer Kategorie der Zweideutigkeit (Fink 2014) and, with Paul Fleming and Rüdiger Campe, Hans Blumenberg (Telos 158, 2012), and, with Gerald Sommer, Talking Prose: Narrative and Autobiography in Heimito von Doderer. Starting 2018 he is a co-editor of the journal, Athenäum, together with Christian Benne and Andrea Albrecht. [End Page 671]
