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| awards | research interests
- Professor, Department
of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University, St. Louis
(July 2005- ).
- Associate Professor,
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University,
St. Louis (July 2000- June 2005).
- Assistant Professor,
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University,
St. Louis (July 1994-2000).
- Ph.D. in German
Studies and Humanities (Joint-Ph.D.), Stanford University, July 1994.
- M.A. in German
Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, May 1990.
- 1990-94: Stanford
University
- 1989-90: Washington
University, St. Louis
- 1988-89: Universität
Hamburg (Germany)
- 1987-88: Uppsala
Universitetet (Sweden)
- 1984-87: Universität
Hamburg (Germany)
- 1984: Philipps-Universität
Marburg (Germany)
- Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Graduate School, Washington University, 2006.
- Kirby Award, Best Article
in South Central Review, 2004.
- Research Grant,
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Berlin, 2003-2004.
- Faculty Summer Research
Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University,
2003.
- DAAD Prize for Distinguished
Scholarship in the Humanities, 2002.
- Research Grant,
International Acitivities Fund, Washington University, 2001-2002.
- Aldo and Jeanne
Scaglione Prize in Germanic Languages and Literatures, 2000 (for Walter
Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power).
- Technology and
Curriculum Development Grant, Arts and Sciences, Washington University,
2000.
- Research Grant,
International Acitivities Fund, Washington University, 1999-2000.
- Research Grant,
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 1998-1999.
- Faculty Summer
Research Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University,
1998.
- Max Kade Prize,
Best Article in The German Quarterly, 1993.
- Whiting Dissertation
Fellowship, 1993-1994.
- Pre-Dissertation
Fellowship and Internal Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, 1992-1993.
- 19th- to 21th-century
German Literature and Culture
- Critical Theory,
Aesthetic Theory, and Cultural Studies
- Film and Film/Media
Theory
- Intellectual History
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