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STEPHAN SCHINDLER

Professor of German, Comparative Literature and Film Studies

Chair, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures

Phone 314.935.5106, Fax 314.935.7255

skschindler@wustl.edu

Stephan K. Schindler is a Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and Film Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in German from the University of California, Irvine, after having studied German, History, and Education at the University of Düsseldorf and at the “Studienseminar” Wuppertal.

Schindler has published on Bernd, Jung-Stilling, Kleist, Handke, Brinkmann, literature and terrorism, pornography, Holocaust film, and Weimar film. He is the author of Das Kind als Subjekt. Die Erfindung der Kindheit im Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts (1994) and Eingebildete Körper: Phantasierte Sexualität in der Goethezeit (2001). He is the co-editor of Knowledge, Science and Literature in the Early Modern Period (1996 with Gerhild Williams) and The Cosmopolitan Screen, German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present (2007 with Lutz Koepnick). His current book project is entitled, "Screening Horror/Terror: The Holocaust in Film."

Schindler’s teaching interests include 18th and 19th century German literature and culture, German film and popular culture, gender and Holocaust studies, critical theory and psychoanalysis. In recent years he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on sexuality around 1800/1900, the Holocaust in media, terrorism, punk in the seventies, and the global culture of soccer.

Office Ridgley Hall 319	Mailing Address Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Campus Box 1104 Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
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