Stanford University, Department of German Studies

Márton Dornbach

Stanford University, Department of German Studies

Pigott Hall, Bldg. 260, Room 208, Stanford, CA 94305-2030

office: (650)723-5887, email:

Education

2004 Ph.D., Princeton University, German literature

1999-2000 Visiting DAAD Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

1997 M.A., Princeton University, German literature

1995 B. A. (summa cum laude), Washington University in St. Louis,

Double major in philosophy and German literature

1993-1994 Visiting student, Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

1991 High school degree, Trefort Ágoston High School, Budapest, Hungary

Employment

Since 2007 Assistant Professor of German Studies, Stanford University

2005-2007 Acting Assistant Professor of German Studies, Stanford University

2002-2003 Replacement Language Coordinator, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University

2001-2002 Lecturer, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University

1998-1999 Assistant Instructor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University

1998 Summer internship, Rowohlt Verlag and Rowohlt Berlin, Germany

Courses taught

Scenarios of Dissolution in the Modern Novel (Spring 2008)

The Culture of Reason and its Discontents: The Emergence of the Humanities (Spring 2008)

Being at home in the world: Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment (Autumn 2007)

German empiricisms: Concepts of experience and aesthetic experience in modern intellectual history (Autumn 2005, Spring 2007)

Introduction to nineteenth-century prose: Literature and the limits of self-determination (Winter 2006, Autumn 2007)

Theories of art after Idealism: Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche (Winter 2006)

Idealist and Romantic aesthetics: From Kant to Hegel (Autumn 2006)

Ironies: Proliferation, containment, critique (Spring 2006)

German Romanticism (Winter 2006)

Between culture and civilization: German self-understandings (Winter 2006)

Aesthetics from Kant to Nietzsche (Autumn 2005)

Berlin in the 20th century (Spring 2002, as preceptor, Princeton)

Beginner’s, intermediate, and intensive intermediate German (1998-1999, 2001-2003, as

teaching assistant and lecturer at Princeton)

Independent study courses on Kant and German idealism (Winter 2006, Winter 2007, Spring 2007, Winter 2008)

Publications

Review of The Theory of Inspiration: Composition as a Crisis of Subjectivity in

Romantic and Post-Romantic writing by Timothy Clark, Studies in Romanticism 42.2 (2003)

Reviews of recent literature on Kleist and Romanticism (Holmi, Budapest, March and September 2000)

Siegfried Kracauer, “Die Photographie” (translation into Hungarian and commentary, Café Babel, Budapest, Summer 1997)

Essays and articles in the humanities and social sciences translated into English from

Hungarian, German, and French (published in The Hungarian Quarterly, Arcadia, the Budapest Review of Books, and various essay collections)

Conference talks and presentations

“Kant, Schelling, and Hoffmann On Imitation Versus Emulation” (accepted for the American Comparative Literature Association convention in 2008/04, Long Beach)

“Laughter and the Point of View of Nothingness: Kant and Schopenhauer” (October, 2007 German Studies Association annual convention, San Diego)
“E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Poet and the Composer,” Music Aesthetics and Critical Theory

Workshop, Department of Music, Stanford University (2006/05)

“Inspired Reader, Synthetic Author: Idealist Esotericism and Romantic Authorship,”

Conference on Modernism, New York University (2002)

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Other professional activities

Faculty representative at the German table, Haus Mitteleuropa (since Autumn 2006)

Anonymous external reader for Eighteenth-Century Fiction (July 2007)

Academic awards and honors

The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Honorific Fellowship (2000-2001)

DAAD German Academic Exchange Service Annual Grant (1999-2000)

Summer research grant, Princeton University (1997, 2001)

Graduate fellowship, Princeton University (1995-1999)

Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society (1995)

Nisha Luthra Prize, Department of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis (1995)

David Bronsen Prize, Department of German, Washington University in St. Louis (1995)

Ralph Carr Fletcher Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis (1991-1995)

Languages

English, German, Hungarian (native), French (good), Italian (basic), Russian (remnants)

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