Degrees

• B.A., M.A., M.A.h.c., Ph.D

Research Area

• 18th Century German & European Literature
• Enlightenment Legacy from Kant to A. Bloom
• Philosophy and Literature
• Science and Literature

Current Research

• Sturm und Drang as Counter Culture
• Art of Criticism in German Romanticism

Current Courses

• Introduction to the Profession of Germanics
• Sturm und Drang
• Evil in Literature and Film
• Defining the Self in European Literature

Current Positions

• Director, Max Kade Center for European & German Studies

Professional Societies

• American Association of Teachers of German
• American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts
• Deutsche Schiller-Gesellschaft
• German Studies Association
• Goethe-Gesellschaft Weimar
• Goethe Society of North America
• International Herder Society
• Leipziger Arbeitskreis zur Geschichte des Buchwesens
• Lessing Society
• Modern Language Association of America
• Society for Literature and Science

Professional Honors

• College of Arts and Science Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award
• Charlotte M. Craig Visiting Professor, Rutgers U
• Spence & Rebecca Webb Wilson Humanities Fellow
• Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship
• DAAD/GSA Prize for Best Book on German Literature