John T. Hamilton

William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature

Chair, Germanic Languages and Literatures

Harvard University

Curriculum Vitae

12 Quincy Street 617-496-4272

Cambridge, MA 02138

Education:

New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1994–1999

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, May 1999

M.A. in Comparative Literature, January 1996

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Seminar für Klassische Philologie, 1998–1999

New York University in France, Paris, 1995

New York University, Washington Square College, 1981–1985

B.A. magna cum laude (German/Classical Studies) October 1985

Teaching Positions:

2009 –pres.Professor of Comparative Literature and German, Harvard University(Chair, Comparative Literature, 2011–12; Chair, Germanic Languages and Literatures, 2013–pres.)

2016Visiting Professor, Center for the History of Knowledge, ETH-Zürich

2007 – 2009Professor of Comparative Literature and German, New York University

2006Visiting Professor, Institute for the Classical Tradition, University of Bristol, England

2005 – 2007John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

2001 – 2005Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and German, Harvard University

1999 – 2001Assistant Professor of Classics, Department of Literature, University of California-Santa Cruz

Publications:

  1. Books
  1. Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. [Chinese translation, Beijing: Hermes, 2011].

Reviewed:

Gregor Staab, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 07.11 (2004)

Charles Rowan Beye, Greek Works (April 23, 2004)

Armand D’Angour, Times Literary Supplement, no. 5313 (Jan. 28, 2005), 28

Leofranc Holford-Strevens, London Review of Books, vol. 27:4 (Feb. 17, 2005), 33-34

Penelope Wilson, Translation and Literature 14 (2005), 90-94

Felix Budelmann, The Classical Review 55:2 (2005), 406-407

Adolf Köhnken, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 11:4 (2005), 602-606

Helmut Müller-Sievers, Modern Philology 103:2 (2005), 215-217

William Waters, Modern Language Quarterly 67:2 (2006), 265-270

Malcolm Heath, Greece & Rome, 52:2 (2005), 255

  1. Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. Paperback edition, 2013.[German translation: Musik, Wahnsinn und das Außerkraftsetzen der Sprache, trans. Andrea Dortmann, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2011].

Reviewed:

John Neubaurer, Comparative Literature Studies 47 (2010), 243 – 46.

Keith Chapin, Eighteenth Century Music 7 (2010), 114 – 17.

Herbert Lindenberger, Modern Language Quarterly71 (2010), 213–15

Ian Miller, Humanities and Social Sciences Net (2010)

Pallavi Worah, Metapsychology 13 (2009)

  1. Security: Politics, Humanity and the Philology of Care, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.

Reviewed:

Hall Bjornstad, L’Esprit Créateur 54:3 (2014), 118.

Ellwood Wiggins, Modern Language Quarterly 76:3 (2015), 393–96.

Pirathees Sivarajah, Lectures: Les comptes rendus (2016)

Henrik Wilberg, Comparative Literature (2017), 340–42.

  1. Philology of the Flesh. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (forthcoming: 2018).
  1. Sound on Location (in progress)
  1. In Place of Complacency (in progress: for the Classicisms series, The University of Chicago Press; forthcoming 2018).

b. Journal Articles

  1. “Poetica obscura: Reexamining Hamann’s Contribution to the Pindaric Tradition,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 34:1 (2000): 93-115.
  1. “hymnos/poikilos – On Pindar’s First Olympian Ode,” Helios 28:2 (2001): 1-22.
  1. “Revolting Translation: Sophocles and Hölderlin,” Metamorphoses 9:1 (2001): 113-134.
  1. “Thunder from a Clear Sky: On Lessing’s Redemption of Horace” Modern Language Quarterly 62:3 (2001): 203-218.
  1. “Fulguratores: Lessing and Hölderlin,” Poetica 33:3-4 (2002): 445-464.
  1. “Modernity, Translation, and Poetic Prose in Lessing’s Briefe, die neueste Literatur betreffend,” Lessing Jahrbuch 36 (2004/2005): 79-96.
  1. “Integration, Subversion and the Rape of Europa: Heinrich Böll’s Er kam als Bierfahrer,” Comparative Literature 58 (2006): 387 – 402.
  1. “‘Ist das Spiel vielleicht unangenehm?’ Musical Disturbances and Acoustic Space in Kafka,” Journal of the Kafka Society of America (2005).
  1. “Sinneverwirrende Töne: Musik und Wahnsinn in Heines Florentinischen Nächten,” Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie 126/4 (2007): 1–18.
  1. “Hans Zender: Mnemosyne und Cabaret Voltaire,” Commentary, Vienna: Kairos, 2006.
  1. “Philology and Music in the Work of Pascal Quignard,” Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-Century Literature33 (2009): 43–67.
  1. “Music on Location: Rhythm, Resonance, and Romanticism in Eichendorff’s Marmorbild,” Modern Language Quarterly 70 (2009): 195–221.
  1. “Die Erziehung des Teufels: Über Hoffmanns Berganza-Novelle,” Hölderlin Jahrbuch36 (2009): 75–84.
  1. “Moraleja cruel,” La Vanguardia (November 4, 2009): 5.
  1. “Unlimited, Unseen, and Unveiled: The Force of the Aorist in Pascal Quignard’s Sur le jadis,” Esprit Créateur52 (2012), 96–106.
  1. “Kinder der Sorge: Ein Mythos über die Sicherheit,” Polar11 (2011),
  1. “Così fan tutti i compositori: The Cephalus-Procris Myth and the Birth of Romantic Opera in Hoffmann’s Aurora,” The Opera Quarterly 29 (2013),88–100.
  1. “Reception, Gratitude and Obligation: Lessing and the Classical Tradition,” Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century2013: 09, 81–96.
  1. “Extemporalia: Music, Philology, and Nietzsche’s Misology,” Philia/Filia, 2013 (online)
  1. “Security, Conspiracy and Human Care in Donnersmarck’s Leben der Anderen,” Historical Social Research 38 (2013), 1–13.
  1. “Philology of the Flesh: Benjamin’s Collection and Kafka’s Penal Colony,” The Winter 2013 Rodig Lecture, Rutgers German Studies Occasional Papers 15 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 2013).
  1. “Gambara de Balzac, ou Le Chef-d’œuvre ‘inentendu’: pour une esthétique noétique,” in Théories de la littérature: nouveaux éléments de vocabulaire, Emmanuel Bouju, ed. (Rennes, 2015).
  1. “Repetitio Sententiarum, Repetitio Verborum: Kant, Hamann, and the Implications of Citation,” German Quarterly 87:3 (2014), 297–312.
  1. “Procuratores: On the Limits of Caring for Another,” Telos170 (2015), 1–16.
  1. “Omnia mea mecum porto: Exile, Culture, and the Precarity of Life,” EthosQuarterly 108 (2014), 95–107.
  1. “Ellipses of World Literature,” Poetica 46 (2014), 1–16.
  1. “Rahmen, Küsten, und Nachhaltigkeiten in Theodor StormsDer Schimmelreiter,” Weimarer Beiträge (2015), 165–80.
  1. “Kirschrot funkelnder Almadin: The Petrification of Love, Knowledge and Memory in the Legend of Falun,” ColloquiaGermanica (2016), 1–16.

c. Book Chapters

  1. “A Short History of Archaeology in the Academy” in Lingua Franca Guide to Graduate Schools: Humanities and Social Sciences, Robert Clark and John Palatella, ed. New York: Lingua Franca Press, 1997, 347-359.
  1. “Temple du Temps: Valéry et le Verbe opaque” in Poétiques de l’objet: L’Objet dans la poésie française du Moyen Âge au XXe siècle, François Rouget, ed. Paris: Champion, 2001, 155-64.
  1. “Ernst Bloch: 1885-1977,” Twentieth Century European Cultural Theorists, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Paul Hansom, ed. Columbia: Bruccoli Clark Layman (2004): 53 – 62.
  1. “The Task of the Flâneur: Proust in Berlin,” New History of German Literature, David Wellbery and Judith Ryan, ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
  1. “Ecce Philologus: Nietzsche and Pindar’s Second Pythian Ode,” Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, Paul Bishop, ed. London: Boydell and Brewer, 2004: 54 – 69.
  1. “The Revival of the Ode” in Companion to European Romanticism, Michael Ferber, ed., London: Blackwell, 2004, 345–359.
  1. “Poetry and Poetics,” The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, M. C. Horowitz, ed., New York: Scribner, 2004.
  1. “Canis canens, oder Kafkas Respekt vor der Musikwissenschaft,” KafkasInstitutionen, Arne Höcker and Oliver Simons, ed., Bielefeld: Transcript, 2007: 145–156.
  1. “Look and See, See and Read: Sung Hwan Kim’s ‘Visual Literature’”, Hermès KoreaMissulsang, Pascale Mussard and Pierre-Alexis Dumas, ed., Seoul: Hermès Aetelier, 2007: 26–31.
  1. “Ovids Echographie” in Narziss und Eros. Bild oder Text?, Eckart Goebel and Elisabeth Bronfen, ed.Göttingen: Wallstein, 2009, 18–40.
  1. “Pindar” in The Classical Tradition, Anthony Grafton, Glenn Most, and Salvatore Settis, ed., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010, 729–30.
  1. “Pindar: Rezeptionsgeschichte” in Der neue Pauly: Komparatistik der Antike, Supplementband 5, Christine Walde, ed., Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010
  1. “‘I love you like the grave’: Rhetoric, Revolution, and Necromancy in Dantons Tod,” Humanism and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century Europe and its Transatlantic Legacy, Uwe Steiner, Martin Vöhler, and Christian Emden, ed. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015.
  1. “Foreword,” Interpreting Great Classics of Literature as Metatheatre and Metafiction, David Gallagher, ed. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010), i–v.
  1. “Security,” in Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, E. Apter, J. Lezra and M. Wood, ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.
  1. “The Flight into Orgonomy: Wilhelm Reich in New York,” in Escape to Life: German Intellectuals in New York: A Compendium of Exile after 1933, E. Goebel and S. Weigel, ed., Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 2012, 445–56.
  1. “O mi fili, o mi discipule! Der Vater als Philosophiemeister im alten Rom,” Meister und Schüler in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Von Religionen der Antike bis zur modernen Esoterik, A.-B. Renger, ed., Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2012, 69–80.
  1. “Der pythogoreische Kult und die akousmatische Mitteilung von Wissen,” Performanz von Wissen: Strategien der Wissensvermittlung in der Vormoderne, T. Fuhrer and A.-B. Renger, ed., Heidelberg: Winter, 2013, 49–54.
  1. “Mi manca la voce: How Balzac Talks Music—Or How Music Takes Place—in Massimilla Doni,” in Speaking of Music, K. Chapin and A. Clark, ed., New York: Fordham University Press, 2013, 120–37.
  1. “Before Discipline: Philology and the Horizon of Sense,” Marginality, Canonicity, Passion, Christina Kraus and Marco Formisano, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [forthcoming].
  1. “Rome,” Denkfiguren: Für Anselm Haverkamp, E. Horn M. Lowrie, ed. Berlin: August, 2013, 173–74.
  1. “Ineluctable Ulysses: A Glossarium,” The Nabokov Paper: An Experiment in Novel Reading, K. Briggs and L. Russo, ed. London: Information as Material, 2014, 48–49.
  1. “Why My Work will Disappear,” in How to Disappear Completely, Boris Eldagsen, ed., Paris: Arte, 2013.
  1. “Torture as an Instrument of Music,” in Liminal Auralities: Sounds, Technics, and Space, Sander van Maas, ed. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015, 143–52.
  1. „Cléopâtre pour Cléopâtre: Das innere Absolute und die Wiederbelebung der Zivilisation in Gautiers Une nuit de Cléopâtre“ in Translatio Babylonis: Unsere orientalische Moderne, Barbara Vinken, ed. Paderborn: Fink, 2014.
  1. “Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath: Shakespearean Overtones in Mann’s Der Tod in Venedig” in Thomas Mann and Shakespeare: Something Rich and Strange, Tobias Döring and Ewan Fernie, ed. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015.
  1. “Die Rezeption des romantischen Musikparadigmas bei Honoré de Balzac,” in Literatur und Musik, Alexander Honold, and Nicola Gess, ed., Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016, 402–18.
  1. “Hymnik und Hoher Ton: Klopstock und Goethe,” in Literatur und Emotionen, M. von Koppenfels and C. Zumbusch, ed., Berlin: de Gruyter [forthcoming]
  1. “‘Cette douceur, pour ainsi dire wagnérienne’: Musical Resonance in Proust’s Recherche” in Proust and the Arts, Christie McDonald and François Proulx, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 90–100.
  1. “The Luxury of Self-Destruction: Flirting with Mimesis with Roger Caillois,” Flirtations: Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction, D. Hoffman-Schwarz, B. Nagel, and L. Stone, ed., New York: Fordham University Press, 2015, 106–115.
  1. “The Tragic Voice of Pascal Quignard,” in Tragedy and the Idea of Modernity, J. Billings and M. Leonard, ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 212–28.
  1. “Ex-zitation—Francesco Petrarca,” in Rom rückwärts: Europäische Übertragungsschicksale von Lucan bis Lacan, Judith Kasper and Cornelia Wild, ed. (Munich: Fink, 2015)
  1. “Politische Mythologie,” in Handbuch Literatur und Psychoanalyse, Frauke Berndt and Eckart Goebel, ed., Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017
  1. “Religion, Literature, and the Aesthetics of Expressionism,” co-written with Almut-Barbara Renger, in: The Sensuous Sacred: Aesthetics as a Connective Concept for the Study of Religion, Alexandra Grieser, ed. (forthcoming)
  1. “Voluptas Carnis: Allegory and Non-Knowledge in Pieter Aertsen’s Paintings,” in Ignorance, Nescience, Nonknowledge, Cornel Zwierlein, ed., Leiden: Brill, 2016, 179–96.
  1. “The Falser, foule mote him befall: On The Plowman’s Tale,” in Befall, Pavel Schmidt, ed. (Biel: Edition Clandestin, 2016), 35–36.
  1. “Whaling in the Abyss between Melville and Zeppelin: Alex Itin’s Orson Whales,” in Melvillean Aesthetics: Media, Materiality, and the Political, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, ed., New York: Fordham University Press, 2018 (forthcoming)
  1. “Pagina abscondita, or the Book’s Wake,” in Book Presence in a Digital Age, C.A.W. Brillenburg Wurth and K. Driscoll, ed., London: Bloomsbury, 2017 (forthcoming)
  1. “Cum repeto noctem: Citations of Exile in Goethe’s ItalienischeReise,” Schlusspoetik: Goethes Spätwerk, David Wellbery and Kai Sina, ed., Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017 (forthcoming)
  1. “Form der Inspiration: Klopstocks Antikerezeption,” in Klopstock-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung, Mario Grizelj and Michael Auer, ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017.

d.Book Reviews

  1. Jan Assmann, Das verschleierte Bild zu Sais: Schillers Ballade und ihre griechischen und ägyptischen Hintergründe, inBryn Mawr Classical Review, 2000.
  1. Christine Walde, Die Traumdarstellungen in der griechisch-römischen Dichtung, inBryn Mawr Classical Review, 2002.
  1. Stefan Willer, Poetik der Etymologie: Texturen sprachlichen Wissens in der Romantik, inZeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 124 (2005): 290-292.
  1. Winfried Menninghaus, Hälfte des Lebens: Versuch über Hölderlins Poetik, in Hölderlin-Jahrbuch 34 (2004/2005), 388-391.
  1. Martin Vöhler, Pindarrezeptionen: Sechs Studien zum Wandel des Pindarverständnisses von Erasmus bis Herder, in Journal for Hellenic Studies (2007)
  1. Kim Fordham, Trials and Tribunals in the Dramas of Heinrich von Kleist, inHyperion 5 (2010),102–104.
  1. Benjamin Bennett, The Dark Side of Literacy: Literature and Learning Not to Read. Modern Language Quarterly71 (2010), 226–28.
  1. Stella P. Revard. Politics, Poetics, and the Pindaric Ode: 1450–1700. ClassicalWorld 104 (2011), 509 – 511.
  1. Kartrin Rosenfield, Antigone: Sophocles’ Art, Hölderlin’s Insight, in Hölderlin-Jahrbuch40 (2013)
  1. Thomas Pfau, Minding the Modern, in Comparative Literature (2016).
  1. Boris Maslov, Pindar and the Emergence of Literature” in Classical Review 67:2 (2017)
  1. Anne Simon and Katie Fleming, ed. The Reception of Classical Antiquity in German Literature, in Arbitrium.

Named Lectures (Selections):

  • Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture, Classical Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz, April 13, 2003: “Ecce Philologus: Nietzsche, Gratitude, and Pindar’s Second Pythian Ode.”
  • Rodig Memorial Lecture, Department of German, Rutgers University, Feb. 7, 2013: “Philology of the Flesh: Benjamin’s Collecting and Kafka’s Penal Colony.”
  • Reinhard Kuhn Memorial Lecture, Brown University, Oct. 22, 2013: “‘Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath’: Shakespearean Overtones in Mann’s Der Tod in Venedig.”
  • Samuel H. Danziger Lecture in Classics, The University of Chicago, Feb. 20, 2014: “Repetitio Sententiarum, Repetitio Verborum: Kant, Hamann and the Implications of Citation.”
  • Whitney J. Oates Lecture in Classics, Princeton University, March 4, 2014: “Repetitio Sententiarum, Repetitio Verborum: Kant, Hamann and the Implications of Citation.”
  • Eberhard Faber Lecture in German, Princeton University, October 20, 2015 (forthcoming): “Words made Flesh: Celan and Dickinson.”

Invited Presentations and Lectures:

  • Oxford University
  • Yale University
  • Princeton University
  • Bard College
  • Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität-Munich
  • University of Bamberg
  • Scuola Normale Superiore-Pisa
  • University of Leiden
  • University of Utrecht
  • University of Montreal
  • Zentrum für Literaturforschung-Berlin
  • Freie Universität-Berlin
  • University of Bristol
  • University of Bonn
  • Northwestern University
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Bern
  • University of California-Santa Cruz
  • Rice University
  • Rutgers University
  • University of Minnesota
  • University of Glasgow
  • Mary Washington College
  • Washington and Lee University
  • University of Chicago
  • Columbia University
  • Barnard College
  • Brown University
  • University of California-Santa Barbara
  • Humboldt Universität-Berlin
  • University of Bern
  • Guardini Stiftung, Berlin
  • Indiana University, Bloomington
  • University of Vienna
  • University of Zürich
  • ETH-Zürich

Awards and Fellowships

  • Max Kade Prize for Best Article in The German Quarterly, 2015
  • President’s Innovation Fund for International Experience, 2015
  • Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship, Harvard University, 2013–14
  • Whitney J. Oates Fellowship, Princeton University, 2013–14
  • Mellon Foundation, Sawyer Seminar, “Hearing Modernity,” 2013–14
  • Elson Family Arts Initiative Grant, Harvard University, 2013
  • Mahindra Humanities Center Workshop Grant, Harvard University, “Classical Traditions,” 2012–15
  • Fellowship, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, 2011
  • Petra Shattuck Excellence in Teaching Award, Harvard University, 2011
  • Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2009
  • Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship, University of Bristol, England, 2006
  • Resident Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2005-06
  • GSAS Research Workshop Committee Grant, Harvard University, 2002

Graduate Workshops, Conferences, and Exhibits:

  • Chair, “Classical Traditions,” Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard, 2012–16
  • Co-Chair, “German Studies: New Perspectives,” Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard, 2013–pres.
  • Curator, “Pavel Schmidt-Franz Kafka: Verschrieben & Verzeichnet,” Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center, Harvard, 2011
  • Chair, Renato Poggioli Graduate Student Colloquium Series, Harvard, 2010–2014
  • Organizer, “On Security,” Poetics and Theory Institute, New York University, 2009
  • Co-Chair, “Word and Image Revisited,” Humanities Center, Harvard, 2004 – 05 (with Ewa Lajer-Burcharth)
  • Chair, “Searching for Traditions: Methodologies of Comparative Literature” Harvard, 2002-03
  • Co-Chair, “The Classical Tradition” (with Richard Thomas and Jan Ziolkowski, in conjunction with the Department of the Classics), Harvard, 2001-03
  • Co-Chair, “Forum Kulturpoetik” (with Kristin Kopp), Harvard, 2001-04

University Service

  • 2016 – 2017University Committee for Appointments and Promotions
  • 2014 – 2017University Faculty Council
  • 2015 – 2016 Provostial Forum
  • 2014 – pres. University Docket Committee
  • 2012 – pres. University Library Board
  • 2012 – pres. Humanities Initiative
  • 2011 – pres. Mahindra Humanities Center

External Service

  • Co-Editor, Manhattan Manuscripts Series, Wallstein Verlag (Göttingen)
  • Co-Editor, Metaforms Series, Brill (Leiden)
  • Editorial Board, The German Quarterly
  • Editorial Board, Philologus
  • Selection Committee, Bellagio Center Residency, Rockefeller Foundation, 2003 – 2014
  • Selection Committee, American Academy in Berlin, 2011 – 2015.
  • Selection Committee, European Institutes for Advanced Study Program, 2010 – pres.
  • Evaluator, Minerva Stiftung, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, 2011 – pres.
  • Referee: Comparative Literature, Classical World, Modern Language Quarterly, Hölderlin Jahrbuch, Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, Millennium:Journal of International Studies, Classical Antiquity, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, PMLA

Doctoral Dissertations Advised

  1. David Franklin Elmer, Homeric epaineo: The Politics of Reception and the Poetics of Consent(Harvard, 2005)
  1. Kathleen Lott Hayley, "Spleen Ridiculous": Courtly Humor in Rabelais and Shakespeare(Harvard, 2007)
  1. Gundela Hachmann, Blick in die Zeit: optische Medien in deutschen Romanen der Postmoderne (Harvard, 2008)
  2. David Kim, Imperial Expansion: Translation and Universality in Modern Austrian and German Cultures (Harvard, 2008)
  1. Stephen Smith, The Transfigured Flesh: Natural History in Adorno’s Musical Thought (NYU, 2010)
  1. Tamar Abramov, To Catch a Spy: An Exploration of Subjectivity (Harvard, 2008)
  1. Jennifer Hui Bon Hoa Secret Lives of the City: Reimagining the Urban Margins in 20th-Century Literature and Theory, from Surrealism to Iain Sinclair (Harvard, 2011)
  1. Barbara Natalie Nagel,Der Skandal des Literalen. Barocke Literalisierungen bei Gryphius, Kleist, Büchner (NYU, 2012)
  1. Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, Infinite Reflection on the Revolution in France: Burke, Theoretical Romanticism, and the Political (NYU, 2012)
  1. Amit Shilo, The Tablet-Writing Mind of Hades: Poetics of the Afterlife in the Oresteia (NYU, 2012)
  1. Jamey Graham, Character Before the Novel: Representing Moral Identity in the Age of Shakespeare (Harvard, 2012)
  1. Kristina Mendocino, Interrupting the Origin: Hegel, Humboldt, and Hölderlin’s Prophecies of Language (Yale, 2012)
  1. Lauren Stone, Kinderstuben. The “Small Worlds” of Childhood in Stifter, Rilke, and Benjamin (NYU, 2013)
  1. Dania Hückmann, Das Versprechen der Gerechtigkeit (NYU, 2013)
  1. Dane Stalecup Fragmented Totalities: The Autobiography of Composer Hector Berlioz(NYU, 2013)
  1. Kári Driscoll, Toward a Poetics of Animality: Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Pirandello, Kafka (Columbia, 2014)
  1. Michael Gallope, Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable (NYU, 2013)
  1. John Kim, Universal Poetics: Hexagrams, Diagrams, Calligrams (Harvard, 2013)
  1. Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, Be an Outlaw, Be a Hero: Cinematic Figures of Urban Banditry and Transgression in Brazil, France, and the Maghreb (Harvard, 2013)
  1. Clara Masnatta, Freund-schaft:Capturing Aura in an Unframed Literary Exchange (Harvard, 2013)
  1. Zoltan Varga, Writing the Acoustic Self in English Modernism (CUNY, 2013)
  1. Vladimir Boskovic, The Ethical Philosophy of Odysseus Elytis (Harvard, 2014)
  1. Jennifer Nelson, Image beyond Likeness: The Chimerism of Early Protestant Visuality (Yale, 2014)
  1. Katie Deutsch, Platonic Footnotes: Figures of Asymmetry in Ancient Greek Thought (Harvard, 2015)
  1. Daniel Villegas Velez, Mimetologies:AestheticPoliticsinEarlyModernOpera(Penn, 2016)
  1. Guangchen Chen, Collecting as Cultural Technique: Materialistic Interventions into History in 20th Century China (Harvard, 2017)
  1. Adam Y. Stern, Genealogies of Survival: Christianity, Jews, Sovereignty (Harvard, 2017)
  1. Benjamin Sudarsky, Shelley’s Descent into Italy (Harvard, in progress)
  1. Emma Zachurski, Untitled Territory: The Re-Articulation of Paris through Image, Text and Media (Harvard, in progress)
  1. Serge Ryappo, Aesthetics, Spectatorship, and Digital Media: An Archeology of Virtual Reality (Harvard, in progress)
  1. Márton Fárkas, Singing the Banner, Singing Otherwise: Herder’s Translation of theS Song of Songs (Harvard, in progress)
  1. Raphael Koenig, Art Beyond the Norms: Art of the Insane, Art brut, and Literary Madmen from Prinzhorn to Dubuffet, 1922-1947(Harvard, in progress)
  1. Simos Zeniou,“Words which were weapons”: Literature and Political Violence in the Hellenic Nineteenth Century (Harvard, in progress)
  1. Hudson Vincent, The English Baroque: Style and Translation in 17th-century Poetry, Drama, and Prose (Harvard, in progress)
  1. Lara Roizen, Intertwining the Visible and the Invisible: Music in Proust’s Recherche (Harvard, in progress)
  1. Petra Taylor, Literature as an Event of Language: A Phenomenological Study of Written, Oral, and Multilingual Literatures (Harvard, in progress)
  1. Christian Struck, Materiality, Relationality, Access (Harvard, in progress)
  1. Gernot Waldner, Was zählt: Zur Rezeption von Statistik in der Prosa des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts (Harvard, in progress)
  1. Steven Lydon, Words without Meaning: Nietzsche’s Reception of Chladni’s Klangfiguren (Harvard, in progress)
  1. Marco Romani Mistretta, Invention and Discovery in Greek and Roman Thought (Harvard, in progress)
  1. Robert Roessler, Poetische Strukturen des Unbewussten: Zur Formierung der Psychoanalyse und ihrer Grammatik im langen 19. Jahrhundert (Harvard, in progress)
  1. Alexander Lambrow, Die magische Moderne: Physiognomy and the Signature of All Things (Harvard, in progress)
  1. David Pister, Vertragsformen des modernen Subjekts: Kleist – Keller – R. Walser (Harvard, in progress)

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