Vita
Professional Experience
Since August 2015 Director of the Centre for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin and Professor for European Cultural History and the History of Knowledge at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2012–2015 Full Professor (W 3) of Modern German Literature
at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
2003–2012 Full Professor (C 4) of Modern German Literature
at University of Bonn
1995–2003 Associate Professor of German Literature at New York University
1990–1995 Assistant Professor (tenure track) and Associate Professor (with tenure as of 1994) of German at University of Rochester, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
1989–1990 Visiting Assistant Professor and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, German Department
Education
1989 Ph.D., German Literature, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
1985–1986 German and Philosophy, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br.
1984 Master of Philosophy, The Johns Hopkins University
1983–1989 Graduate Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
1982–1983 Graduate Studies in German, Philosophy, Indology,
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br.
Selected publications
Books
Aus dem Leben der Form. Goethes Morphologie und die Nager. August Verlag 2016.
Giorgio Agamben zur Einführung. Junius 2016 (3rd Ed., translated into Korean and Polish).
Das Ende der Kunst. Lesarten eines Gerüchts nach Hegel. Suhrkamp 2002 (engl. translation with Stanford University Press 2006).
Worthörig wider Willen. Darstellung und Sprachproblematik in Adalbert Stifters Prosa. Iudicium 1992.
Edited Volumes
Zeit der Form – Formen der Zeit (ed. with Michael Gamper, Johannes Grave, Andreas Langenohl, Ralf Simon & Sabine Zubarik). Wehrhahn 2016.
Das Dämonische. Schicksale einer Kategorie der Zweideutigkeit nach Goethe (ed. with Lars Friedrich & Kirk Wetters). Fink 2014.
Hannah Arendt und Giorgio Agamben. Parallelen, Perspektiven, Kontroversen (ed. with Georg Mein & Kai Kauffmann). Fink 2008.
Jenseits von Utopie und Entlarvung. Erziehungsdiskurse in kulturwissenschaftlicher Sicht (ed. with Nicolas Pethes). Rombach 2007.