Curriculum Vitae
Updated September 2009
Book
Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006.
Articles
"Watching War," forthcoming in PMLA, October 2009.
"Faust at War." Studies in Romanticism 48 (Spring 2009): 139-157.
"How To Do Things With Clausewitz." The Global South 3.1 (April 2009): 18-29.
"Who’s Afraid of Anacoluthon?" MLN 124.3 (April 2009): 648-665.
"Great War, Total War, Cold War." Modernism/Modernity 16.2 (2009): 211-228.
"The Pace of the Attack: Military Experience in Wallenstein and Die Jungfrau von Orleans." The Goethe Yearbook 16 (2008): 29-46.
"Analogy, Terminable and Interminable." Postmodern Culture 18:1 (September 2007).
"Reading, Begging, Paul de Man." Legacies of Paul de Man. Ed. Marc Redfield. Fordham UP, 2007. 29-45. An earlier version of this essay appeared in Romantic Circles Praxis Series, May 2005.
"Ready, Set, Made! Joseph Beuys and the Critique of Silence." Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany: Text as Spectacle. Ed. Gail Finney. Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2006. 68-82.
"Patriot Acts: Heinrich von Kleist and the Language of Heil," Romanticism and Patriotism. Ed. Orrin Wang. Romantic Circles Praxis Series, May 2006.
"Derrida, Hegel, and the Language of Finitude." Postmodern Culture 15:3 (May 2005).
"Art Forms." The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin. Ed. David Ferris. New York: Cambridge UP, 2004. 35-53.
"Exhaustible Humanity: Using up Language, Using up Man." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 14 (Summer 2003): 106-133.
"The Syntax of the Revolution." European Romantic Review 13 (June 2002): 207-213.
"Kafka Live!" Modern Language Notes 116 (December 2001): 979-1000.
"Breaking the Laws of Language: Freedom and History in Kleist’s Prinz Friedrich von Homburg." Studies in Romanticism, 39 (Spring 2000): 111-137. A German version of this essay, "Zur ewigen Nachwelt (ohne Frieden)," appeared in Kleist lesen. Eds. Marianne Schuller and Nikolaus Müller-Schöll. Berlin: transcript Verlag, 2003.
"Tragedy and the War of the Aesthetic." Schelling and Romanticism. Ed. David Ferris. Romantic Circles Praxis Series, June 2000.
Edited Journal Volumes
Editor of a special issue of Postmodern Culture: "Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis," 18.1 (September 2007).
Co-editor of a special issue of Modern Language Notes: "Cultural Studies, Ideologies," 112: 3 (April 1997).
Translations
Bianca Theisen’s "Comic-Tragedies: Thomas Bernhard’s Marionette Theater." Modern Language Notes 111 (April 1996): 533-559.
Harro Müller’s "Identity, Paradox, Difference: Conceptions of Time in the Literature of Modernity." Modern Language Notes 111 (April 1996): 522-532.
Book Reviews
Warren Montag, Louis Althusser. Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 15:1 (Spring 2005): 98-102.
Jacques Derrida, Schibboleth para Paul Celan. Extremoccidente, 2 (May 2003).
Martha B. Helfer ed., Rereading Romanticism. European Romantic Review 13 (2002): 335-338.
Christopher Fynsk, Language and Relation. Modern Language Notes 113 (December 1998): 1212-1216.
Thomas Pepper, Singularities: Extremes of Theory in the Twentieth Century. Modern Language Notes 112 (December 1997): 971-974.
Timothy Bahti, Ends of the Lyric. Modern Language Notes 111 (December 1996): 1010-1014.
Haun Saussy, The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic. Modern Language Notes 109 (December 1994): 976-980.
Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures
"How to Feel about Building: Walter Benjamin and the Poetics of Affect." Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Washington D.C., October 2009.
"Almost Romanticism: The Poetics of Nearly." Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Duke University, May 2009.
Materiality Matters. Seminar created and organized for the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, April 2009.
"Speed and the Spectacle of War from Schiller to Freud." Lecture to the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado at Boulder, December 2008.
"There is no 'I' in Golgotha." Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Long Beach, April 2008.
"Divine Languages, at Home and Abroad." Annual Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, March 2008.
"Speedy Subjects." Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, San Diego, October 2007.
The Resistance to Economics. Seminar created and organized for the Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, Portland State University, April 2007.
"Helen’s Faust, Helen’s Silence." Annual Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Atlanta, March 2007.
"War Story." International Conference on Narrative, Georgetown University, March 2007.
"Coleridge and the Fantasy of Invasion." Conference on Poetry and Politics, University of Stirling, Scotland, July 2006.
"Faust at War." Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Workshop, Indiana University, May 2006.
"Faulkner’s War Fable." Conference hosted by the Portland Center for Cultural Studies, Portland State University, April 2006.
"Permanent War Economies." Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton University, March 2006.
Homo economicus. Two-session panel created and organized for the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton University, March 2006.
"The Murder of Attention: De Quincey and the Fine Art of Homicide." Conference hosted by the Department of English at the University of Denver, October 2005.
"War Play: Friedrich Schiller and the Battles of History." Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, October 2005.
"Patriot Acts: Service and Sacrifice in Kleist and Novalis." Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Montreal, August 2005.
"The Sublimities of War and Peace." Conference hosted by the Portland Center for Cultural Studies, Portland State University, May 2005.
"Divine Paraphrase: Hamann’s Poetics of History." Annual Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, April 2005.
"The Ghosts of Love and War: Haunting the Battlefield with Faust and Clausewitz." Lecture to the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado at Boulder, February 2005.
"The Prose of History and its Discontents." Panel of the Division on Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, December 2004.
"Technologies of War and Peace." Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Portland, November 2004.
"The Touch of Love: Goethe, Schlegel and the Poetics of Liebe." Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University of Colorado at Boulder, September 2004.
"How to do Things with ‘No’—Freud, Benjamin and the Romance of a Finite Language." Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, University of Michigan, April 2004.
"The Politics of Repetition." Response to the panel Making Time: Temporalities, Histories, and Politics. Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, March 2004.
"Communicating Community." Annual Meeting of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of San Francisco, February 2004.
"There’s No Such Thing as Art History (and it’s a good thing, too)." Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Fordham University, New York, August 2003.
"Productivity and its Discontents." Lecture to the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, May 2003.
"Fictions of Production." Lecture to the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Buffalo, February 2003.
"Beyond the Body Principle." Panel of the Division on Literature and the Other Arts, Modern Language Association Convention, New York, December 2002.
"The Right to Lose Your Voice: Poetic and Political Deaths in Hölderlin and Novalis." UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, April 2002.
"Man alive! Using up Poe." Panel of the Division on Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans, December 2001.
"The Event of Dada and the Performance of the Live." Panel of the Division on Twentieth-Century German Literature, Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans, December 2001.
"The Revolution of the Syntax." Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University of Washington at Seattle, August 2001.
"The Dream has no Element." Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 2001.
Literary Studies with and Against Psychoanalysis. Two-session panel created and organized for the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 2001.
"The Phantom Dreambook." Interpretation of Dreams/Dreams of Interpretation Conference, University of Minnesota, October 2000.
"The Language Theory of Labor." Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Yale University, February 2000.
"Achtung Dichtung: Lyric Language and Politics." Lecture to the Department of German at Columbia University, January 2000.
"Ideology in Degrees of Zero." Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December 1999.
Legacies of Criticism and Critique: Cultural Studies with and against the Frankfurt School. Panel created and organized for the Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December 1999.
"Kafka Live!" Seminar Presentation to the Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, November 1999.
"Working Beyond Labor." Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, October 1999.
Money, Value, Labor. Panel created and organized for the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, October 1999.
"Divine Ruins of the Voice: Historical and Political Speech in Hölderlin." Panel of the Division for Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, December 1998.
"History Dramas: Free Politics in Schelling and Schiller." Conference on the Histories of Theory, University of Western Ontario, April 1998.
Hegel Between East and West: Philosophical Histories and Literary Historicisms. Panel created and organized for the Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, December 1997.
"The Tombs of Humanity." Response to the panel Reading the Mummy: Embodying the Past in the Present. Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, December 1997.
"‘Three Satanic Promises.’ Allegory, Freedom, and the Language of Evil in Benjamin’s Trauerspielbuch." World Congress of the International Walter Benjamin Association, Amsterdam, July 1997.
Lyric Politics: A German Question? Panel created and organized for the Modern Language Association Convention, Washington D.C., December 1996.
"Poetic Truth, Poetic Haste: History in Hölderlin and Trakl." Modern Language Association Convention, Washington D.C., December 1996.
"Whose Language? Poetry for a Free World." Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Boston, November 1996.
"Romancing our Cultural Ideologies." Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Notre Dame, April 1996.
"Three Cheers for Boredom: The Concept of the Interesting in Kant and Schlegel." Annual Meeting of the American Conference on Romanticism, Milwaukee, October 1995.
Twentieth-Century Interpretations of German Romanticism. Panel created and organized for the Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Baltimore, July 1995.
"Achtung, Dichtung: Hölderlin and the Philosophy of History." Annual Conference of the Kentucky Foreign Language Association, April 1995.
Bertolt Brecht: The Dramatic, the Ideological. Panel created and organized for the International Brecht Society, Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego, December 1994.
"Ideology, Presupposition, and the Obvious: Brecht with Aristotle and Adorno." Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego, December 1994.
"Character and History in Kleist’s Prinz Friedrich von Homburg." Annual Meeting of the American Conference on Romanticism, Penn State, October 1994.
"Claimed but not Closed: Heidegger’s Readings of Hölderlin." Annual Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Philosophy and Literature, Edmonton, May 1994.
"Idealist Reflexes: Schelling's Art, Schelling's Artwork." Annual Conference of the Kentucky Foreign Language Association, April 1994.
"Winckelmann’s Two-Bit Hermaphroditic Idealism." The JHU Women’s Studies Workshop, Baltimore, November 1993.
Awards and Honors
2007 Mellon Fellow, Faculty Workshop, Wesleyan University 2007 Humanities Research Travel Grant, Reed College 2004-08 Stillman Drake Research Grant, Reed College (annual award) 2003 Mellon Faculty Seminar Grant, Reed College 1999-00 Andrew Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania 1999-00 Paid Leave Award Supplement, Reed College 1998 Roulston Dissertation Prize for Excellence in German, Johns Hopkins U 1998 Charles E. Culpeper Foundation Grant, Reed College 1997 Dean’s Development Award, Reed College 1996 Dean’s Teaching Prize Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University 1991-95 Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship 1990 Richter Summer Research Fellowship, Yale University 1990 Honorable Mention, Alvin B. Kernan Senior Thesis Prize, Yale University 1988 J. Edward Meeker Literary Essay Prize, Yale University 1986-90 John P. McGovern Phi Beta Kappa Merit Scholarship, Yale University 1986-90 Moody Honor Scholar, Yale University