Contributors

Contributors Martin Blumenthal-Barby is a graduate student in the Yale University Department of German. His interests center on twentieth-century literature and theory, especially Benjamin, Freud, Kafka, and children’s literature. He is working toward a dissertation examining the literary representation of childhood in twentieth-century totalitarian systems. He has an article on GDR children’s literature forthcoming in Handbuch zur Kinder- und Jugendliteratur der SBZ/DDR 1945–1990 (Stuttgart: Metzler). Kenneth S. Calhoon is professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon. He is author of Fatherland: Novalis, Freud and the Discipline of Romance (1992) and editor of Peripheral Visions: The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema. He has contributed regularly to Modern Language Notes and has recently published entries on Fontane and Mörike in The New History of German Literature (2005). Other recent publications include “Alchemies of Distraction in James’s Portrait of a Lady and Fontane’s Effi Briest” (arcadia 1999); “The Eye of the Panther: Rilke and the Machine of Cinema” (Comparative Literature 2000); and “The Gothic Imaginary: Goethe in Strasbourg” (Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 2001). His current project addresses contradictions surrounding the emergence of anti-baroque sensibilities in eighteenth-century culture and criticism. Hans-Christian von Herrmann works at the University of Jena. His publications include “Psychotechnik versus Elektronik. Kunst und Medien beim Baden-Badener Kammermusikfest 1929,” 1929. Schnittpunkte der Medialität, ed. Stefan Andriopoulos and Bernhard Dotzler (2002); “Brechts Routinen. Maschinen und Medien im epischen Theater,” Global Heroes—Lokales Theater. Zwischen Medialität und Theatralität, ed. Martina Leeker (2001); “Am Leitfaden des Leibes. Zur Entliterarisierung des Theaters um 1900,” Literatur und Leiblichkeit, ed. Angelika Corbineau-Hoffmann and Pascal Nicklas (2001); and Sang der Maschinen. Brechts Medienästhetik (1996). Albrecht Koschorke is professor of German and General Literary Studies at the University of Constance and director of the project “Poetology of Corporate Bodies” at the Centre for Literary Research, Berlin. His recent books include Körperströme und Schriftverkehr. Mediologie des 18. Jahrhunderts (1999); Die Heilige Familie und Ihre Folgen (2000), English edition The Holy Family and Its Legacy (2003); and editor, Des Kaisers neue Kleider. Über das [End Page 708] Imaginäre politischer Herrschaft (2002). His current research focuses on cultural theory and theories of the social imaginary. He was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 2003. Ethel Matala de Mazza teaches at the Institute for German Philology of the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. Her publications include Der verfasste Körper. Zum Projekt einer organischen Gemeinschaft in der Politischen Romantik (1999); editor, Des Kaisers neue Kleider. Über das Imaginäre politscher Herrschaft (2002); editor, Das Politische. Figurenlehren des sozialen Körpers and der Romantik (2003); and Inszenierte Welt. Theatralität als Argument literarischer Texte (2003). Bernhard Metz teaches in the Comparative Literature Department of the Free University of Berlin. Rainer Nägele is professor of German at the Johns Hopkins University. His publications include “Phantom of a Corpse: Ophelia from Rimbaud to Brecht” (MLN 2002), “Thinking Images,” Benjamin’s Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory, ed. Gerhard Richter (2002), Echos: Über-Setzen. Lesen zwischen Texten (2002), Literarische Vexierbilder. Drei Versuche zu einer Figur (2001), Lesarten der Moderne. Essays (1998), and Echoes of Translation. Reading between Texts (1997). Michael Niehaus teaches in the German Studies Institute of the Faculty of Philology at the Ruhr University of Bochum. Jan Plug is associate professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. His research interests include critical theory, comparative literature, Romanticism, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy. His recent publications include Borders of a Lip: Romanticism, History, Politics, Language (2003); trans. Jacques Derrida, Eyes of the University: Right to Philosphy 2 (2004); trans. Jacques Derrida, Who’s Afraid of Philosophy?: Right to Philosophy 1 (2002); trans., Marc Froment-Meurice, That is to Say: Heidegger’s Poetics (1998); and essays on Romanticism, philosophy, and critical theory. Samuel Weber is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University and co-director of its Paris Program in Critical Theory. His publications include Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking (2005), Theatricality as Medium (2004), Institution and Interpretation (2001), and The Legend of Freud (2000). Christopher J. Wild is professor...

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