Richard T. Gray is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Department of Germanics at the University of Washington.
This home page provides
|
|
E-Mail: woyzeck@u.washington.edu
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Virginia; August, 1981.
Dissertation: “Aphorism and Met-Aphorism: The Aphoristic Tradition and the Aphorisms of Franz Kafka.” Adviser: Walter H. Sokel.
M.A., University of Cincinnati; June, 1976.
B.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro; May, 1974, cum laude.
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2003-04 Forschungspreis, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.
2002-03 American Council of Learned Societies Senior Research Fellowship.
2001 Wiederaufnahme (Renewal) Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
1998-99 Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW, Collaborative Research and Teaching Grant, WWW Project, “Vienna 1900.”
1996-97 Fulbright Senior Research Grant.
1994 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend.
1994 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Study Visit Fellowship.
1992-93 Royalties Research Fund Grant, University of Washington.
1992 Graduate Research Fund Summer Grant, University of Washington.
1989-91 Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.
1989 Faculty Development Grant, Mills College.
1987 Faculty Development Grant, Mills College.
1985-86 Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard University.
1983 Vollum Summer Research Grant, Reed College.
1979-80 Fellowship from the Austrian Institute and the American Council for the Study of Austrian Literature.
1978-79 DuPont Fellowship, University of Virginia.
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
2003-2006 Byron W. and Alice I. Lockwood Professor in the Humanitiies, University of Washington.
2002 Forschungspreis, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (for 2003-04 academic year). In recognition of “outstanding scholarly accomplishments” in the field of German Literary Studies.
1974 Student Excellence Award of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
1970 Steuben Society Award for Excellence in German.
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIPS
General Editor of book series, “Literary Conjugations,” University of Washington Press, 2003-.
Conference Organizer: “Generations: A Conference Dedicated to Past, Present, and Future Scholarship in Germanics at the University of Washington,” University of Washington, May 2003.
Member, Executive Committee, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW, 2001-
Chair, Review Committee for Ph.D. Program in Digital Arts, Graduate School, UW, 2003.
Member, Executive Committee, European Studies Program, UW, 2001-
External Review Committee, Department of German Studies, Indiana University, 2001.
Chair, Department of Germanics, University of Washington, 1993-2001.
Software Localization Certificate Program Executive Committee, University of Washington, 2000-present.
Chair, Search Committee, Director of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW, 1998-99.
Executive Committee Member, MLA Division on 19th- and Early-20th-Century German Literature, 1998-2002 (Secretary, 2000; Chair, 2001).
German American Chamber of Commerce of Washington State, Executive Committee, 1993-present.
Coordinator of MLA Convention Sessions, “The Sense of Endings,” for the Division on 19th- and Early-20th-Century German Literature, Washington D.C., December 2000.
Steering Committee, Program in Criticism and Theory, UW (1999-2001)
Western European Studies Center Steering Committee UW 1994-96; 1997-2001.
Faculty Council on Academic Standards, UW, 1994-96.
Subcommittee on Admissions and Programs, UW Council on Academic Standards, 1994-96.
Joint Subcommittee on Admissions and Academic Standards, UW, 1994-96.
Joint Subcommittee on the Undergraduate Initiative, UW, 1995.
Language Center Executive Board, UW 1994-2000.
Language Learning Steering Committee, UW, 1993-94.
European Studies Curriculum Committee, UW, 1993-94.
European Studies Committee, UW, 1992-93.
Undergraduate Major Advisor, Department of Germanics, UW, 1991-93.
Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Germanics, UW, 1991-93.
Adjudication Panel of the Faculty Senate, UW, 1992-93.
Chairman, Department of Foreign Languages, Mills College, 1988-89.
Member, Search Committee for the Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Mills College, 1988-89.
President, Northern California Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German, 1988-89.
Vice-President, Northern California Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German, 1987-88.
Secretary, Germanics Division, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, 1989.
Program Organizer, Spring Meeting of Northern California Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German, held in conjunction with the Foreign Language Association of Northern California, Mills College, March 1989.
Member, Local Organization Committee for American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages and American Association of Teachers of German Joint Annual Meeting, Monterey CA, November 1988.
Program Organizer, Annual Conference, Northern California American Association of Teachers of German, Goethe-Institut San Francisco, October 1988.
Advisory Board Member, Foreign Language Association of Northern California, 1988-89.
Chairman, Thomas Mann Symposium Committee, University of Cincinnati, 1975.
Professional Memberships: American Association of Teachers of German; American Society for 18th-Century Studies; German Studies Association; Fulbright Association; International Lessing Society; Kafka Society of America; Modern Language Association.
EMPLOYMENT
2003- Byron W. and Alice I. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities, University of Washington.
1993-2003 Professor of German, University of Washington.
1991-93 Associate Professor of German, University of Washington.
1988-91 Associate Professor of German, Mills College.
1984-88 Assistant Professor of German, Mills College.
1982-84 Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Reed College.
1981-82 Assistant Professor of German, University of Virginia.
1976-79 Graduate Instructor, University of Virginia.
1974-76 Graduate Instructor, University of Cincinnati.
Visiting Professor, Universität Tübingen, Summer Semester 2004.
Visiting Professor, Universität Tübingen, Summer Semester 2002.
Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Autumn Semester 2000-2001.
Visiting Professor, University of California at Irvine, Spring Quarter 2000.
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
INVITED LECTURES
“Fremden-Verkehr: Kafkas ‘Der Nachbar’ und die Soziologie des Fremden,” Universität Tübingen, June 2004.
“The Neighbor as Other: Kafka’s ‘Der Nachbar’ (My Neighbor) and the Sociology of the Other,” delivered at the conference “Linguistic Insiders and Outsiders: Translation, Hybridity, and German Modernism,” University of California at Irvine, May 2004.
“Ökonomische Romantik: Geldnationalismus bei Johann Gottlieb Fichte und Adam Müller,” Institute for Philosophy, Universität Jena, June 2002.
“Monetary Nationalism in German Romanticism: Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Adam Müller,” Yale University, Department of German Studies, January 2002; Department of Germanics, University of Washington, April 2003.
“Goethe as Found(l)ing Father of Modern German Physiognomics,” Charles Phelps Taft Lecture, University of Cincinnati, February 2001.
“Failed Mediation in Kafka’s In der Strafkolonie,” Harvard University, Germanics Roundtable, December 2000.
“Technologies of Seeing in the History of German Physiognomics,” Princeton University, October 2000, and Middlebury College, December 2000.
“Turning Points in the History of German Physiognomic Thought, from Lavater to Racism,” Conference on “Jahrhundertwenden: A Centenary Celebration of Cincinnati Scholarship,” University of Cincinnati, April 2000.
“Die Sichtbarmachung des Unsichtbaren: Technologien des Sehens in der modernen deutschen Physiognomik,” Filbinger Lecture, Universität Regensburg, June 1999.
“Goethe als Stiefvater der modernen deutschen Physiognomik: Der Fall Ludwig Klages,” Filbinger Lecture, Universität Regensburg, June 1999.
Panel Discussion, “Germanistik in Deutschland und den USA: Massenfach oder Orchideenfach?,” University of Regensburg, Germany, June 1999.
“The Emergence of the Physiognomical World View in Weimar Germany: Oswald Spengler and Rudolf Kassner,” European Studies Center, Harvard University, December 1998.
“Vienna 1900: Interdisciplinary Web Site for the Humanities,” Harvard University Germanics Roundtable, December 1998.
“Hypersign, Hypertext, Hypermarket: Adam Müller’s Theory of Money and Romantic Semiotics,” Reed College, March 1999; also presented at Ohio State University, April 1999, and University of California, Irvine, May 2000.
“The (Mis)Fortune of Commerce: Economic Transformation in Adalbert Stifter's 'Bergkristall',” University of Washington Germanics Colloquium Series, January 1998.
“Physiognomik im Spannungsfeld zwischen Humanismus und Rassismus:
Johann Caspar Lavater und Carl Gustav Carus,” Departments of Philosophy and German, University of Jena, June 1997.
Panel Discussion, “Amerikanische Universität, Du hast es besser. Oder?” Internationales Begnegnungszentrum, University of Munich, May 1997.
“Germanistik in den USA: Zwischen Sprachunterricht und 'Cultural Studies,' “ Universität Münster, October 1996.
“Lavater and the Disciplining/Disciplined Gaze,” Harvard University, Center for European Studies, March 1995.
“The Inside as Outside: Johann Kaspar Lavater's Physiognomische Fragmente,” Delta Phi Alpha lecture, University of Washington, November 1991.
“Revolutionary Literature and Literary Revolution in Germany: The Case of Heine,” Mills College, Faculty Seminar Series, November 1986
“Revolutionary Literature in Germany,” Harvard University, Mellon Foundation, May 1986
“Free-Lancing: Heine's Buch Le Grand and the Political Writer Between Service and Servitude,” Harvard University, Germanic Literary Circle, April 1986.
“The Relationship of Aphorism and Parable in Kafka's Works,” Reed College, March 1983.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Participant in Podium Discussion “Medien/Terror,” Medien-Forum Conference of North Rhine Westphalia, Cologne, Germany, June 2004.
Session Organizer, “Romanticism and Economics,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Conference, Seattle, August 2001.
Program Organizer, “The Sense of Endings,” Meetings of the Division of 19th- and Early-20th-Century Literature, MLA Convention, Washington D.C., December 2000.
“Kritische Philologie: Nietzsches Weg zur Kulturkritik,” International Nietzsche Conference “Nietzsche, Illuminismo, Modernitá,” Bologna, Italy, November 2000.
“Technologies of Seeing: Envisioning the Invisible in Racial Physiognomics,” Division of Twentieth-Century Literature, Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco, December 1998.
“Vienna 1900: Interdisciplinary Web Site for the Humanities,” Division of Late-19th and Early-20th Century German Literature, Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco, December 1998.
“Hypersign, Hypertext, Hypermarket: Adam Müller’s Theory of Money and Romantic Semiotics,” Culture and Economics Conference, Society for Critical Exchange, Exeter England, July 1998.
“Ästhetischer Umbruch und ideologischer Konflikt: Die 'Conti-Szenen' in Lessings Emilia Galotti,” Internationale Vereinigung für germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft,” Vancouver, B.C., August 1995.
“Buying into Signs: Money and Semiosis in Eighteenth-Century Language Theory,” conference on “The New Economic Criticism,” Society for Critical Exchange, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, October 1994.
“Übersetzungsgeschichte und Wirkungsgeschichte: Zur anglo-amerikanischen Nietzsche Ausgabe,” Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik, Düsseldorf, July 1994.
Session Leader and Program Organizer, “F(r)ictions of Culture: The German and Austrian fin de siécle,” Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Seattle, November 1993.
“Aesthetic 'Breakthrough as Repression of the Political: Kafka's 'Das Urteil',” Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, San Diego, November 1992.
“Buying into Signs: Money and Semiosis in Eighteenth-Century Language Theory,” Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco, December 1991.
“Aufklärung und Anti-Aufklärung: Wissenschaftlichkeit und Zeichenbegriff in Lavaters 'Physiognomik',” Lavater-Symposion, “Das Antlitz Gottes im Antlitz des Menschen,” Zwingliverein, Zurich, November 1991.
“Übersetzungsgeschichte als Wirkungsgeschichte: Überlegungen zur Erstellung einer 'kritischen' anglo-amerikanischen Nietzsche-Ausgabe,” Symposium “Geisteswissenschaftliches und literarisches Übersetzen im internationalen Kulturaustausch,” Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Sonthofen, Germany, October 1991.
“The Transcendence of the Body in the Transparency of its En-Signment: Johann Kaspar Lavater's Physiognomical Surface Hermenutics,” Symposium “Körper-Kultur,” Kommunikationswissenschaftliches Kolleg, Universität Siegen, January 1991.
Chair and Program Organizer, Germanics Division, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, 1990.
Session Leader and Program Organizer, “Fünfzig Jahre nach dem Einmarsch: Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Nationalsozialismus im amerikanischen Deutschunterricht,” AATG-ACTFL Joint Annual Meeting, Boston, November 1989.
“Heine and the Historical Avant-garde: Oppositional Literature and the Public Sphere,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 1989.
“Righting Writing: Semiotics and Hermeneutics in Schiller's The Robbers,” Western Regional Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Berkeley, February 1989.
“Heine and the Historical Avant-garde: Oppositional Literature and the Public Sphere,” Modern Language Association Conference, New Orleans, December 1988.
“Schiller's Dramatic Mirror: Writing, Reflection, and the Semiology of Literary Autonomy in Die Räuber,” Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Portland, November 1988.
Respondent on the panel “Ideology in the History of Hermeneutics,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference, Notre Dame University, April 1988.
“The Political Unconscious in Narratives of the Psyche: Kafka's Das Urteil and Hofmannsthal's Reitergeschichte,” Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco, December 1987.
“Around the World of Critical Theory in 80 Minutes,” Mills College Faculty Seminar Series, November 1987.
Respondent on the panel “Postmodernism: High Culture/Popular Culture,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, May 1987.
“Romanticism and the Discourse of Revolution: The Example of Heinrich Heine's Ideas: The Book Le Grand,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference, San Jose, April 1987.
“The Dialectic of Enlightenment in Büchner's Woyzeck,” Lexington, Kentucky, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1987.
“Biography as Criticism in Kafka Studies,” New York, Modern Language Association Conference, December 1986.
“From Impression to Epiphany: The Aphorism in the Austrian Jahrhundertwende,” Washington D.C., Modern Language Association Conference, December 1984.
“Aphorism and Language Crisis in Turn-of-the-Century Austria,” New York, Modern Language Association Conference, December 1983.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz, in the series “Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies” (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004).
Stations of the Divided Subject: Contestation and Ideological Legitimation in German Bourgeois Literature, 1770-1912 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995). [Reviewed in: Choice 33 (Jan. 1996); Michigan Germanic Studies 20 (1994): 187-93; The German Quarterly 70 (1997): 65-66; The Germanic Review 72 (1997): 252-53; Germanic Notes and Reviews 28 (1997): 78-80; German Studies Review 20 (1997): 443-44; Germanistik 37 (1996): 843; MLQ 58 (1997): 233-36; Monatshefte 90 (1998): 384-85; MLR 93 (1998): 1174-76; Forum for Modern Language Studies 34 (1998): 292.]
Constructive Destruction. Kafka's Aphorisms: Literary Tradition and Literary Transformation Studien zur deutschen Literatur, vol. 91 (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1987). [Reviewed in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 100 (2-3 May 1987); Monatshefte 80 (1988): 488-90; Colloquia Germanica 21 (1988): 364-67; The German Quarterly 61 (1988): 595-96; Deutsche Bücher (1988, no. 2): 143-44; Germanistik 28 (1987): 649-50; The Year's Work in Language Studies 48 (1987): 858-59.]
Translator, Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments: From the Period of Unfashionable Observations, vol. 11 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche in 20 Volumes (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).
Translator, Friedrich Nietzsche, Unfashionable Observations I-IV, vol. 2 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche in 20 Volumes (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995). [Reviewed in: Modern Schoolman 76 (1998): 61-66.]
Editor and translator (with Sabine Wilke), Unification and Its Discontents: Documents from the “Peaceful Revolution,” 1989-1990 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996). [Reviewed in: World (20-27 July 1996): 24; The Baelder Pan-European Journal 78-79 (March 1997); German Studies Review 21 (1998): 393-94; The German Quarterly 72 (1999): 415-16.]
Editor, Approaches to Teaching Kafka's Short Fiction in the “Approaches to Teaching World Literature” series of the Modern Language Association (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1995). [Reviewed in: Modern Austrian Literature 30.1 (1997): 136-39; Seminar 33 (1997): 182-84.]
Translator (with Sabine Wilke), Manfred Frank, What is Neostructuralism?, Theory and History of Literature, vol. 45 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989).
Editorial Assistant, Lessing in heutiger Sicht: Beiträge zur internationalen Lessingkonferenz (Bremen: Jacobi Verlag, 1977).
Articles, Esaays, Book Chapters:
“Fremden-Verkehr: Kafkas Der Nachbar und die Soziologie des Fremden,” accepted for publication in ther collection Fremdheit bei Kafka, eds. Hansjörg Bay and Christof Hamann (Freiburg: Rombach, 2005) (forthcoming).
“Economic Romanticism: Monetary Nationalism in Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Adam Müller,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 36 (2003): 535-557.
“Ökonomische Romantik: Währungsnationalismus bei Johann Gottlob Fichte und Adam Müller,” accepted for publication in the volume Geld: Zur kulturellen Anthropologie eines Symbols, eds. Fritz Breithaupt and Peter Garloff (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, forthcoming).
“Red Herrings and Blue Smocks: Commercialism, Ecological Destruction, and Anti-Semitism in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s Die Judenbuche,” German Studies Review (Oct. 2003): 515-542.
“Metaphysical Mimesis: Nietzsche’s Geburt der Tragödie and the Aesthetics of Literary Expressionism,” Companion Volume to German Expressionism, ed. Neil H. Donahue (Columbia, S.C: Camden House, 2003). (forthcoming)
“Filologia Critica: La Vie de Nietzsche alla Critica della Cultura” (Kritische Philologie: Nietzsches Weg zur Kulturkritik) Nietzsche, Illuminismo, Modernitá, eds. Carlo Gentilli, Volker Gerhardt, and Aldo Venturelli (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003), 175-189.
“Disjunctive Signs: Semiotics, Aesthetics, and Failed Mediation in Kafka’s In der Strafkolonie,” Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka, ed James Rolleston (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 2002), 233-269.
“Hypersign, Hypertext, Hypermarket: Adam Müller’s Theory of Money and Romantic Semiotics,” New Literary History 31.2 (2000): 295-314.
Interview: “Hypertext Wien 1900,” appeared in the electronic on-line journal dichtung-digital (www.dichtung-digital.de) (with Sabine Wilke).
“Physiognomik,” encyclopedia article in Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft, ed. Klaus Weimar (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2000ff.), forthcoming.
“Goethe als Stiefvater der modernen deutschen Physiognomik,” Körper—Diskurse—Praktiken, eds. Brigitte Prutti and Sabine Wilke (Heidelberg: Synchron, 2004), 93-125.
“Physiognomik im Spannungsfeld zwischen Humanismus und Rassismus: Johann Caspar Lavater und Carl Gustav Carus,” Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 81 (1999): 313-337.
“Translator's Afterword,” Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Writings: From the Period of Unfashionable Observations, vol. 11 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche in 20 Volumes (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), pp. 463-494.
“The (Mis)Fortune of Commerce: Economic Transformation in Adalbert Stifter's 'Bergkristall,' “ Politics and Literature: Festschrift for Frank Ryder, eds. Mark Cory and Beth Bjorklund (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1998), pp. 36-59.
“Translator's Afterword,” Friedrich Nietzsche, Unfashionable Observations I-IV, vol. 2 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche in 20 Volumes (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), pp. 395-413.
“Buying into Signs: Money and Semiosis in Eighteenth-Century German Language Theory,” The German Quarterly 69 (1996): 1-14. Reprinted in the volume The New Economic Criticism, eds. Martha Woodmansee and Mark Osteen (NY: Routledge, 1998), pp. 95-113.
“Introduction: How the East Was Won” (with Sabine Wilke), Unification and Its Discontents: Documents from the “Peaceful Revolution,” 1989-1990 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996), pp. xiii-xxix.
“From Caligari to Kafka: Expressionist Film and the Teaching of Kafka's Short Fiction,” in Approaches to Teaching Kafka's Short Fiction, ed. R. Gray (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1995), pp. 53-63.
“Teaching Materials on Kafka,” in Approaches to Teaching Kafka's Short Fiction, ed. R. Gray (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1995), pp. 1-18.
“ 'Das Urteil': Unheimliches Erzählen und die Unheimlichkeit des bürgerlichen Subjekts,” Interpretationen: Franz Kafkas Romane und Erzählungen, ed. Michael Müller (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1994), pp. 11-41. Reprinted in 2001 in digital format, available at www.reclam.de/interpretationen/.
“The Dialectic of Enscentment: Patrick Süskind's Das Parfum as Critical History of Enlightenment Culture,” Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 108 (1993): 489-505.
“Übersetzungsgeschichte als Wirkungsgeschichte: Überlegungen zur Erstellung einer 'kritischen' anglo-amerikanischen Nietzsche-Ausgabe,” Übersetzen, verstehen, Brücken bauen: Geisteswissenschaftliches und literarisches Übersetzen im internationalen Kulturaustausch, eds. Arnim P. Frank, Kurt-Jürgen Maass, Fritz Paul, and Horst Turk (Munich: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1994), pp. 685-695.
“Aufklärung und Anti-Aufklärung: Wissenschaftlichkeit und Zeichenbegriff in Lavaters 'Physiognomik',” Das Antlitz Gottes im Antlitz des Menschen: Zugänge zu Johann Kaspar Lavater, eds. Karl Pestalozzi and Horst Weigelt (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994), pp. 166-178.
“Johann Kaspar Lavaters Physiognomical 'Surface Hermeneutics' and the Ideological (Con)Text of Bourgeois Modernism,” Lessing Yearbook 23 (1991): 127-148.
“Sign and Sein: The Physiognomikstreit and the Dispute over the Semiotic Constitution of Bourgeois Individuality,” Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 66 (1992): 300-332. [Reviewed in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (26 Aug. 1992).]
“Die Geburt des Genies aus dem Geiste der Aufklärung: Semiotik und Aufklärungsideologie in der Physiognomik Johann Kaspar Lavaters,” Poetica 23 (1991): 95-138.
“The Hermeneut(r)ic(k) of the Psychic Narrative: Freud's 'Das Unheimliche' and Hofmannsthal's Reitergeschichte,” The German Quarterly 62 (1989): 473-488.
“Epistemic Conflict, Hermeneutical Disjunction, and the Subl(im)ation of Revolt: A Sociosemiotic Investigation of Schiller's Die Räuber,” Fictions of Culture: Essays in Honor of Walter H. Sokel, ed. Steven Taubeneck (Bern and Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1991), pp. 53-93.
“Romanticism and the Discourse of Revolution: Heine's Ideen. Das Buch Le Grand and Literature in the Public Sphere,” Monatshefte 81 (1989): 27-44.
“Free-Lancing: Heine's Ideen. Das Buch Le Grand and Literature Between Service and Servitude”; Heinrich Heine-Jahrbuch 27 (1988): 32-66.
“The Dialectic of Enlightenment in Büchner's Woyzeck,” The German Quarterly 61 (1988): 78-96.
“From Impression to Epiphany: The Aphorism in the Austrian Jahhundertwende,” Modern Austrian Literature 20, no. 2 (1987): 81-95.
“The Ambivalence of Revolt in Klinger's Zwillinge: An Apologia for Political Inconsequence?,” Colloquia Germanica 19, no. 3/4 (1986): 203-227.
“Biography as Criticism in Kafka Studies,” Journal of the Kafka Society of America 10, no. 1-2 (June/December, 1986): 46-55.
“Aphorism and Sprachkrise in Turn-of-the-Century Austria,” Orbis Litterarum 41 (1986): 332-354.
“Suggestive Metaphor: Kafka's Aphorisms and the Crisis of Communication,” Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 58 (1984): 454-469.
“The Literary Sources of Kafka's Aphoristic Impulse,” The Literary Review (Kafka Centenary Volume) 26 (1983): 537-550.
Book Reviews:
“María Cecilia Barbetta: Poetik des Neo-Phantastischen: Patrick Süskinds Roman Das Parfum,” Colloquia Germanica 36 (2003): 194-196.
“Maria Luise Caputo-Mayr and Julius Herz, Franz Kafka: Internationale Bibliographie der Primär- und Sekundärliteratur,” Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate 55 (2002): 466-468.
“Jochen Hörisch, Heads or Tails: The Poetics of Money,” The German Quarterly 75 (2002): 214-216.
“Bernd Widdig, Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany,” Colloquia Germanica 34 (2001): 346-349.
“Benjamin W. Redekop, Enlightenment and Community: Lessing, Abbt, Herder, and the Quest for a German Public,” The Lessing Yearbook 33 (2001): 387-389.
“Frank Pilipp, ed., The Legacy of Kafka in Contemporary Austrian Literature,” The German Quarterly 74 (2001): 318-19.
“Rainer J. Kaus, Erzählte Psychoanalyse bei Franz Kafka: Die Deutung von Kafkas Erzählung ‘Das Urteil’,” The German Quarterly 73 (2000): 320-22.
“Michael Scheffel, Formen Selbstreflexiven Erzählens: Eine Typologie und sechs exemplarische Analysen,” Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate 53 (2000): 467-70.
“Werner Wunderlich, ed., Der literarische Homo oeconomicus:Vom Märchenhelden zum Manager, and Enrik Lauer, Literarischer Monetarismus: Studien zur Homologie von Sinn und Geld bei Goethe, Goux, Sohn-Rethel, Simmel und Luhmann,” The German Quarterly 71 (1998): 319-21.
“Rüdiger Campe and Manfred Schneider, eds., Geschichten der Physiognomik,” The German Quarterly 70 (1997): 395-96.
“John Reddick, Georg Büchner: The Shattered Whole,” Modern Philology 94 (1997): 545-49.
“Louis Dumont, German Ideology: From France to Germany and Back,” Modern Language Quarterly 57 (1996): 512-15.
“Johannes Saltzwedel, Das Gesicht der Welt: Physiognomisches Denken in der Goethezeit,” The German Quarterly 69 (1996): 69-71.
“Ellis Schookman, The Faces of Physiognomy,” The Lessing Yearbook 27 (1995): 260-62.
“Sander L. Gilman, Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient,” Michigan Germanic Studies 20 (1994): 210-15.
“Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Pandämonium Germanikum, M. Luserke and C. Weiß, eds.,” The Lessing Yearbook 26 (1994): 173-74.
“Dorothea von Mücke, Virtue and the Veil of Illusion: Generic Innovation and the Pedagogical Project in Eighteenth-Century Literature,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 27 (1993-94): 303-306.
“Georg Büchner Jahrbuch 7 (1988/89),” Colloquia Germanica 26 (1993): 185-187.
“Johann C. Lavater, Von der Physiognomik und Hundert physiognomische Regeln, eds. Karl Riha and Carsten Zelle,” Lessing Yearbook 25 (1993): 230-232.
“Rudolf Käser, Die Schwierigkeit, ich zu sagen. Rhetorik der Selbstdarstellung in Texten des Sturm und Drang: Herder - Goethe - Lenz,” Lessing Yearbook 21 (1989): 242-244.
“Peter Beicken, ed. Erläuterungen und Dokumente: Franz Kafka “Die Verwandlung” and Peter Beicken, Franz Kafka: Leben und Werk,” Die Unterrichtspraxis 22 (1989): 100-101.
“Georg Büchner, Woyzeck and Other Writings, ed. Henry J. Schmidt,” Die Unterrichtspraxis 21 (1988): 147.
“Betty Senk Waterhouse, ed. and trans., Five Plays of the Sturm und Drang,” Lessing Yearbook 20 (1988): 371.
“Friedrich Voit, ed., J. M. R. Lenz 'Der Hofmeister oder Vorteile der Privaterziehung': Erläuterungen und Dokumente,” Lessing Yearbook 20 (1988): 335-336.
“Georg Büchner, Complete Works and Letters, ed. Walter Hinderer and Henry J. Schmidt,” Die Unterrichtspraxis 20 (1987): 352-353.
“Hans-Günther Schwarz, Dasein und Realität: Theorie und Praxis des Realismus bei J. M. R. Lenz,” Lessing Yearbook 19 (1987): 363-364.
“Franz Werner, Soziale Unfreiheit und 'bürgerliche Intelligenz' im 18. Jahrhundert: Der organisierende Gesichtspunkt in J. M. R. Lenzens Drama 'Der Hofmeister oder Vorteile der Privaterziehung',” Lessing Yearbook 18 (1986): 254-256.
“Werner Preuss, Selbstkastration oder Zeugung neuer Kreatur: Zum Problem der moralischen Freiheit im Leben und Werk von J. M. R. Lenz,” Lessing Yearbook 18 (1986): 252-253.
“Werner Hoffmann, 'Ansturm gegen die letzte irdische Grenze': Aphorismen und Spätwerk Kafkas,” Modern Austrian Literature 19, no. 1 (1986): 116-118.
“Kenneth Hughes, ed. Franz Kafka: An Anthology of Marxist Criticism,” Modern Language Notes 98 (1983): 516-517.
WORK IN PROGRESS:
Books:
“Franz Kafka Encyclopedia”; under contract with Greenwood Publishing; scheduled to appear 2004 (with Ruth V. Gross, Rolf Goebel, and Clayton Koelb).
“Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1870” (in progress).
“Kafka and the Act of Narration.”
Web Site:
Vienna 1900: Interdisciplinary Web Site for Studies in the Humanities (collaborative). http://faculty.washington.edu/vienna/