Faculty Publications and Awards

Susan Anderson

Anderson, Susan C. “Kleist in Yoko Tawada’s Works.” Heinrich von Kleist: Artistic and Philosophical Legacies. Ed. Jeffrey L. High and Carrie Collenberg-Gonzalez. Boston: Brill, 2024. 262-82. 

Anderson, Susan C. “Yoko Tawada’s Travelers and Tourists as Outsiders.” German-East Asian Encounters and Entanglements: Affinity in Culture and Politics since 1945. Ed. Joanne Miyang Cho. New York: Routledge, 2021. 200-222.

Anderson, Susan C. “Yoko Tawada and Reading the Strange(r): ‘Von der Muttersprache zur Sprachmutter’ and ‘Das Fremde aus der Dose.’” German Life and Letters 72.3 (July 2019): 357-77.

Martin Klebes

Klebes, Martin. “Law and Consciousness: Broch on Democratic Propaganda.” Massenwahntheorie und Friedenspoetik. Hermann Broch und die bedrohte Demokratie des 20. Jahrhunderts, edited by Sarah McGaughey, Elisa Risi, Daniel Weidner, and Doren Wohlleben. Berlin and New York: De Guyter, 2023, pp. 205–22.

Klebes, Martin. “Gaddis before Bernhard before Gaddis.” Thomas Bernhard's Afterlives, edited by Stephen Dowden, Gregor Thuswaldner, and Olaf Berwald. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2020, pp. 117–35.

Klebes, Martin. “Glauben und Wissen (um das Wissen um das Wissen): Krisenbekämpfung bei Broch.” Hermann Broch und die Ökonomie, edited by Bernhard Fetz, Jürgen Heizmann, and Paul M. Lützeler. Wuppertal and Vienna: Arco, 2018, pp. 151–68.

Jeffrey Librett

"The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue: Jews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to Richard Wagner and Beyond" (Stanford University Press, 2000)

“The Aesthetic Supplement in Willy Apollon (in relation to Kant, Hoffmann, Freud), in Penumbra: a Journal of Psychoanalysis and Modernity 2 (Winter 2022): 36-70.

"A Touch of Separation—Toward an Ethics of Anxiety in the Age of Global Contagion," in Metalepsis: Journal of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis, 1 (April 2021): 123-140.

"On the Limits of the Image: Colette Brunschwig in Proximity to Emmanuel Levinas" in Colette Brunschwig: Peindre l'ultime espace/Painting the Ultimate Space (Paris: Galerie Jocelyn Wolff and Manuella Editions, 2021), 44-57. 

"Must a Leader Not Be Above the Law?—Understanding the A-Legal Foundations of Trumpism," Public Seminar, February 27, 2020, https://publicseminar.org/essays/must-a- leader-not-be-above-the-law/.

"Between Deconstruction and Archaeology: the Derrida-Foucault Debate from the 'Classical Age' to 'Biopower,'" in Biotheory: Life and Death under Capitalism, ed. Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Peter Hitchcock (New York and London: Routledge, 2020), 42-62.

"From the Pantheism Panic to Modern Anxiety: Friedrich Schelling's Invention of the Philosophy of Angst," essay in Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy, ed. Elizabeth Millán Brusslan (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 535-572.

"The Subject in the Age of World-formation (Mondialisation): Advances in Lacanian Theory from the Quebec Group," in Aner Govrin and Jon Mills, eds., Innovations in Psychoanalysis: Originality, Development, Progress (Routledge, 2020), 75-99.

"Nietzsche and World Iterature: the Eternal Recurrence of Dualism in Thus Spake Zarathustra," in Jeffrey R. Di Leo, ed., Philosophy as World Literature (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020), 145-172.

"Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew" (Fordham University Press, 2015)

Kenneth Calhoon

Calhoon, Kenneth S. The Long Century’s Long Shadow: Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 

Alumni Publications and Awards

Alexis B. Smith (PhD 2017) published an article titled “Ritter’s Musical Blood Flow Through Hoffmann’s Kreisler” in the book The Early History of Embodied Cognition 1740-1920: The Lebenskraft-Debate and Radical Reality in German Science, Music, and Literature (Brill|Rodopi 2016).

Felicitas Hoppe, who received her MA in German from the University of Oregon in 1986, has been awarded the Georg-Büchner prize, the most important literary prize for the German language (2012).

Daniel Gilfillan, who received his PhD in German from the University of Oregon and is currently an Assistant Professor of German Studies and Information Literacy at Arizona State University, has published Pieces of Sound: German Experimental Radio with the University of Minnesota Press (2009).

Carla Damiano, who received her PhD in German from the University of Oregon in 1998 and is a professor in the German Department at Eastern Michigan University, is receiving the Bundesverdienstkreuz for her work on the writer Walter Kempowski. She will receive this prestigious award on September 29, 2021 from the Consul General in Chicago.

Phil Hansen, who received his BA in German from the University of Oregon in 1967, has published a book on The History of Germanic Languages at Oregon,1878-2008 (2008).