Tyler Whitney
Tyler Whitney
Dept. of Germanic Languages & Literatures
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275
Areas of Specialization: German and Austrian Modernism, Naturalism, Literature and Science, Theory and History of Media.
Dissertation Title: “Spaces of the Ear: Literature, Media, and the Science of Sound, 1870-1930.”
Education
2013: Columbia University, Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures (passed with distinction).
2011: Weimar-Princeton Summer School for Media Studies.
2008: Columbia University, M. Phil. in Germanic Languages and Literatures (passed with distinction).
2006: Columbia University, M.A. in Germanic Languages and Literatures.
2003: Haverford College, B.A., German Studies (with high honors) andLinguistics (at Swarthmore College).
Employment
Since 2013: Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures,
University of Michigan
Awards
2012-2013: Whiting Fellowship, Columbia University
2012: Reading Group Grant, Princeton Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities.
2011: Stipend for Weimar-Princeton Summer School for Media Studies.
2010-2011: DAAD Graduate Scholarship.
2007-2009: Summer Stipend, Department of Germanic Languages, Columbia University.
Published Articles and Reviews
“Inside the Ear: Silence, Self-Observation, and Kafka’s Corporeal Spaces” (under review)
Review of Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century: An Introduction, ed. Florence Feiereisen & Alexandra Merley Hill (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012), in: The German Quarterly.
Review ofPhono-Graphien: Akustische Wahrnehmung in der deutschsprachigen Literatur von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Marcel Krings (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2011), in: Monatshefte
Review of Vivian Liska’s When Kafka Says We: Uncommon Communities in German-
Jewish Literature, in:Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature
with Andreja Novakovic, “’In on It’: Honesty, Respect and the Ethics of Advertising” in:
Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing Is As It Seems (Wiley, 2010).
Presentations
2013: “Acoustical Reform: Noise and Literary Form,” NeMLA (Panel: “Sounds German”), Boston, Massachusetts.
2011:“Inside the Ear: Silence and Self-Auscultation in Kafka’s ‘Der Bau’,” GSA (Panel: “Body Parts/Körperteile”), Louisville, Kentucky.
2011:“Stereoscopic Sound: Robert Musil’s “The Believer” and the Archaeology of Acoustic Space,” Literature and Science, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
2011: “Stereoscopic Travel: From Berlin to Paris via Text and Image, 1851-55,” Media Histories: Epistemology, Materiality, Temporality, Interdisciplinary Conference, Columbia University.
2010: “A Tower to the Sky: Architecture and Technology in Paul Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio,” Doubtful Utopia: A Gathering of Scheerbart Scholars, Conference in Architecture and Art History, Columbia University.
2010: “Spaces of the Ear: Binaural Hearing and Musil’s Active Listener,” Within or Without: Space in German Literature and Culture, Graduate Student Conference in German Studies, Cornell University.
2008: “Operator at a Distance: Radio, Hypnosis, and Early Sound Cinema,” Altered States, Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley.
2007: “The Disintegration of Sound and Vision in the Faust Myth,” Uniting Sound and Text, Graduate Student Conference in German Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Teaching Experience
Fall 2009-Summer 2010: Instructor, “German for Reading Knowledge.”
Spring 2008-Spring 2009: Instructor, “Elementary German II.”
Fall 2007: Instructor, “Elementary German I.”
Service
2012: Co-organizer, Columbia-Princeton-NYU Reading Group in Media Studies (Topic: “The Fact of Post/Non-Hermeneutics”), supported by the Princeton Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities and NYU Information Futures.
2009-2012: Rapporteur for the University Seminar, “The Theory and History of Media.”
2007-2013: Research assistant for Professor Stefan Andriopoulos.
2010: Co-coordinator, Annual Graduate Student Conference in the Department of
Germanic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University (Topic: “Decline and
Degeneration”).
2007: Co-coordinator for the Annual Graduate Student Conference in the
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Columbia
University (Topic: “Skandal!”).
Membership
German Studies Association
Modern Language Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
Languages
German (fluent), French (reading knowledge), Spanish (reading knowledge).