
Transatlantic German Studies
Testimonies to the Profession
Camden House Inc (Publisher)
Published on 28. September 2018
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Hardback
300 pages
978-1-64014-012-7 (ISBN)
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The prominent scholar-contributors to this volume share their experiences developing the field of US German Studies and their thoughts on literature and interdisciplinarity, pluralism and diversity, and transatlantic dialogue.
The decisive contribution of the exile generation of the 1930s and '40s to German Studies in the United States is well known. The present volume carries the story forward to the next generation(s), giving voice to scholars from the US and overseas, many of them mentored by the exile generation. The exiles knew vividly the value of the Humanities; the following generations, though spared the experience of historical catastrophe, have found formidable challenges in building and maintaining the field in a time increasingly dismissive of that value. The scholar-contributors to this volume, prominent members of the profession, share their experiences of finding their way in the field and helping to develop it to its present state as well as their thoughts on its present challenges, including the question of the role of literature and of interdisciplinarity, pluralism, and diversity. Of particular interest is therole of transatlantic dialogue.
Contributors: Leslie A. Adelson, Hans Adler, Russell A. Berman, Jane K. Brown, Walter Hinderer, Robert C. Holub, Leroy Hopkins, Andreas Huyssen, Claire Kramsch, Wilhelm Krull, Paul Michael Luetzeler, Mark W. Roche, Judith Ryan, Azade Seyhan, Lynne Tatlock, Liliane Weissberg.
Paul Michael Luetzeler is Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University, St. Louis. PeterHoeyng is Associate Professor of German at Emory University.
The decisive contribution of the exile generation of the 1930s and '40s to German Studies in the United States is well known. The present volume carries the story forward to the next generation(s), giving voice to scholars from the US and overseas, many of them mentored by the exile generation. The exiles knew vividly the value of the Humanities; the following generations, though spared the experience of historical catastrophe, have found formidable challenges in building and maintaining the field in a time increasingly dismissive of that value. The scholar-contributors to this volume, prominent members of the profession, share their experiences of finding their way in the field and helping to develop it to its present state as well as their thoughts on its present challenges, including the question of the role of literature and of interdisciplinarity, pluralism, and diversity. Of particular interest is therole of transatlantic dialogue.
Contributors: Leslie A. Adelson, Hans Adler, Russell A. Berman, Jane K. Brown, Walter Hinderer, Robert C. Holub, Leroy Hopkins, Andreas Huyssen, Claire Kramsch, Wilhelm Krull, Paul Michael Luetzeler, Mark W. Roche, Judith Ryan, Azade Seyhan, Lynne Tatlock, Liliane Weissberg.
Paul Michael Luetzeler is Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University, St. Louis. PeterHoeyng is Associate Professor of German at Emory University.
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English
Place of publication
Columbia, MD
United States
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
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644 gr
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978-1-64014-012-7 (9781640140127)
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PAUL MICHAEL LUETZELER is the Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis where he has been teaching courses in German and Comparative Literature PETER HOEYNG is Professor of German at Emory University. LYNNE TATLOCK is the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. PAUL MICHAEL LUETZELER is the Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis where he has been teaching courses in German and Comparative Literature PETER HOEYNG is Professor of German at Emory University.
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Content
Introduction - Paul Michael Luetzeler and Peter Hoeyng
From Erfahrungshunger to Realitaetshunger: Futurity, Migration, and Difference - Leslie A. Adelson
In-between: The Participant as Observer-The Observer as Participant - Hans Adler
Transatlantic Space and My Own History of Globalization - Russell A. Berman
Deplazierte Personen: Why Would an American Become a Germanist? - Jane K. Brown
Metamorphoses and Meanderings of a Wanderer between Worlds - Walter Hinderer
German Studies as Vocation: My Path into It, Out of It, and Back into It - Robert C. Holub
My Long Way from Germanistik to Afro German Studies - Leroy Hopkins
Mustang Red: My American Road to Critical Theory - Andreas Huyssen
Third Place. How a French Germanist Became an Applied Linguist in America - Claire Kramsch
Transatlantic Exchanges: German Studies - European and American Style - Paul Michael Luetzeler
Being at Home in the Other: Thoughts and Tales from a Typically Atypical Germanist - Mark Roche
After Australia: Triangulating an Intellectual Journey - Judith Ryan
A Tale in Translation: An Academic Itinerary from Istanbul to Bryn Mawr - Azade Seyhan
Beyond Passing: Transculturation in "Contact Zones" - Lynne Tatlock
Far from Where? Germanistik between the Continents - Liliane Weissberg
Epilogue: The Usefulness of Useless Studies - Wilhelm Krull
Index
From Erfahrungshunger to Realitaetshunger: Futurity, Migration, and Difference - Leslie A. Adelson
In-between: The Participant as Observer-The Observer as Participant - Hans Adler
Transatlantic Space and My Own History of Globalization - Russell A. Berman
Deplazierte Personen: Why Would an American Become a Germanist? - Jane K. Brown
Metamorphoses and Meanderings of a Wanderer between Worlds - Walter Hinderer
German Studies as Vocation: My Path into It, Out of It, and Back into It - Robert C. Holub
My Long Way from Germanistik to Afro German Studies - Leroy Hopkins
Mustang Red: My American Road to Critical Theory - Andreas Huyssen
Third Place. How a French Germanist Became an Applied Linguist in America - Claire Kramsch
Transatlantic Exchanges: German Studies - European and American Style - Paul Michael Luetzeler
Being at Home in the Other: Thoughts and Tales from a Typically Atypical Germanist - Mark Roche
After Australia: Triangulating an Intellectual Journey - Judith Ryan
A Tale in Translation: An Academic Itinerary from Istanbul to Bryn Mawr - Azade Seyhan
Beyond Passing: Transculturation in "Contact Zones" - Lynne Tatlock
Far from Where? Germanistik between the Continents - Liliane Weissberg
Epilogue: The Usefulness of Useless Studies - Wilhelm Krull
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