VITA

 

career | degrees | education | awards | research interests

 

Career
  • 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).
Degrees
  • 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.
Education
  • 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)
Awards
  • 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.
Research Interests
  • 19th- to 21th-century German Literature and Culture
  • Critical Theory, Aesthetic Theory, and Cultural Studies
  • Film and Film/Media Theory
  • Intellectual History