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Department of Germanic Languages
University of North Carolina
438 Dey Hall, CB# 3160
Chapel Hill NC 27599
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CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Moses M. and Hannah L. Malkin Term Professor of Jewish History and Culture, 2006-09
Professor, Department of Germanic Languages, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003-present
Director, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2003-present
Adjunct Professor, Department of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2003-present
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate Professor of German and Adjunct Associate Professor of Religious Studies, 1999-
2003
Assistant Professor of German, Department of Germanic Languages, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993-1999
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1998-1999
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, 1993
University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, 1990
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, summer semester 1999
The Johns Hopkins University, M.A. in German,1989
Yale University, B.A. summa cum laude in German with departmental distinction, 1987
Eberhard Karls-Universität, Tübingen, 1985-86
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
EXTERNAL GRANTS
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, National Humanities Center, 1999-2000
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1999-2000
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1999
Leo Baeck Institute/German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship in German-Jewish History, Leo Baeck Institute-New York, 1999
INTERNAL GRANTS
Borden Fellowship, UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities (one-semester leave), Spring 2007
UNC University Research Council Grant, Spring 2002
Blackwell Fellowship, UNC Institute for the Arts and the Humanities (one-semester leave), Fall 2000
Junior Faculty Development Grant, University of North Carolina, 1995
HONORS
Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity selected by Choice magazine as an outstanding academic title for 2003.
Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity awarded honorable mention in the Modern Languages Association’s Scaglione Prize in Germanic Languages and Literatures for books published in 2002 and 2003.
School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1992-93
William Pepper Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1991-92
Teaching Fellowships, University of Pennsylvania, 1989-91
Teaching Fellowships, The Johns Hopkins University, 1987-89
Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University, 1987
Lothar Haussmann Prize for Excellence in German, Yale University, 1987
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 258 pp.
• Selected by Choice magazine as an outstanding academic title for 2003.
• Won honorable mention in the Modern Languages Association’s Scaglione Prize in Germanic Languages and Literatures for books published in 2002 and 2003.
Reconstituting the Body Politic: Enlightenment, Public Culture and the Invention of Aesthetic Autonomy (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999), 286 pp.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
"Fictions of Modern Orthodoxy, 1857-1890: Orthodoxy and the Quest for the German-Jewish Novel," Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 52 (2007), forthcoming (62 pp. in ms.)
"Leopold Kompert and the Work of Nostalgia: The Cultural Capital of German-Jewish Ghetto Fiction," Jewish Quarterly Review (forthcoming, 55 pp. in ms.)
"Fictions of a German-Jewish Public: Ludwig Jacobowski’s Werther the Jew and Its Readers," Jewish Social Studies 11.2 (2005): 202-30.
"Johann David Michaelis and the Colonial Imaginary: Orientalism and the Emergence of Racial Antisemitism in Eighteenth-Century Germany," Jewish Social Studies 6.2 (2000): 56-10
"Kant’s Critique of Historical Judgment: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Displacement of Politics," in Rereading Romanticism, ed. Martha Helfer, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 47 (2000): 75-102.
"Introduction," forum on "Jewish Questions," Eighteenth-Century Studies 32 (1998): 83-84.
"Sugar Island Jews? Jewish Colonialism and the Rhetoric of ‘Civic Improvement’ in Eighteenth-Century Germany," Eighteenth-Century Studies 32 (1998): 92-100.
"Poetics, Politics, and the Limits of Enlightenment: The Berlinische Monatsschrift and the Body Politic," Connecticut Review 19 (1997): 121-36.
"Wordsworth’s Aesthetic State: The Poetics of Liberty," Studies in Romanticism 31 (1994): 3-29.
"Ludwig Börne’s Visit to the Anatomical Cabinet: The Writing of Jewish Emancipation," New German Critique 55 (1992): 105-126.
"Storming Images: Kleist’s ‘Saint Cecilia or the Power of Music,’" Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts 2 (1990): 501-514.
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Moses Mendelssohn and the Polemics of History," in Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness: Identities – Encounters – Perspectives, ed. Christian Wiese and Andreas Götzmann (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 1-21.
"Jewish Emancipation and the Politics of Race," in The German Invention of Race, ed. Mark Larrimore and Sara Eigen (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006), 203-12.
"Memory, History and the Jewish Question: Universal Citizenship and the Colonization of Jewish Memory," in The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Culture and Society, ed. Alon Confino and Peter Fritzsche (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002), 39-61.
"Modernity, Violence, and the Jewish Question: Christian Wilhelm Dohm and the Eradication of Jewish Alterity," in Progrès et violence au XVIIIe siècle, ed. Valérie Cossy and Deidre Dawson (Paris: Champion, 2002), 87-116.
"Rome, Jerusalem and the Imperial Imagination: Christian Wilhelm Dohm and the Regeneration of the Jews," in Monstrous Dreams of Reason: Writing the Body, Self, and Other in the Enlightenment, ed. Laura Rosenthal and Mita Choudhury (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2002), 132-48.
OTHER ARTICLES
"J. G. Fichte (1762-1814)," in Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopeida of Prejudice and Persecution, ed. Richard S. Levy (Santa Barbara: ABC CLIO, 2005), Vol. 1, 227-28
"State-within-a-State," in Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopeida of Prejudice and Persecution, ed. Richard S. Levy (Santa Barbara: ABC CLIO, 2005), Vol. 2, 680-81.
"Christian Wilhelm von Dohm (1751-1830)," in Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopeida of Prejudice and Persecution, ed. Richard S. Levy (Santa Barbara: ABC CLIO, 2005), Vol. 1, 184.
"Johann David Michaelis (1717-1791)," in Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopeida of Prejudice and Persecution, ed. Richard S. Levy (Santa Barbara: ABC CLIO, 2005), Vol. 1, 457-58.
"Christian Wilhelm von Dohm," Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Alan Charles Kors (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
"The Art of the Body Politic: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Invention of Art," Transactions of the Ninth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 347 (1996): 793-796.
INVITED ACADEMIC LECTURES
"German Jews and the Allures of Literature: The Challenges of Modern Orthodoxy," Fritz Thyssen Lecture, Center for German Studies, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, November 28, 2007.
"Out of the Ghetto? The Politics of Nostalgia in German-Jewish Popular Culture," invited lecture, University of Oklahoma, March, 9 2006.
"Untold Tales from the Early History of Reform Judaism: Assimilation and Its Discontents," invited lecture, Center for Jewish Studies, University of North Carolina at Asheville, April 27, 2005.
"Literature and the Imagination of Jewish Ethnicity: The Case of Ludwig Jacobowski's Werther the Jew," invited lecture, University of Miami of Ohio, March 31, 2005.
"Enlightenment, Orientalism and the Jewish Question: Debating Jewish Emancipation in Eighteenth-Century Germany," invited lecture, workshop on "Jewish Question/Muslim Question: The Burden of Assimilation in European Society, Past and Present," UCLA, February 24, 2005.
"The Jewish Question and the Politics of German Orientalism," invited lecture, conference on "Visions of the East: Orientalism and German National Culture," University of Toronto, Munk Centre for International Studies, October 21-24, 2004.
"Orientalism, Enlightenment and the Jewish Question: Debating Jewish Emancipation in Eighteenth-Century Germany," invited lecture, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Program in Judaic Studies, University of Miami, March 2004.
"Orientalism, Enlightenment and the Jewish Question: Debating Jewish Emancipation in Eighteenth-Century Germany," keynote lecture, conference on "Race, Hybridity, and Culture," Forum for Theory of Science and Interdisciplinary Discussion, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, December 5, 2003.
"Orientalism, Enlightenment and the Jewish Question: Debating Jewish Emancipation in Eighteenth-Century Germany," invited lecture, Forum for Political Theory at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights, University of Oslo, December 8, 2003.
"Postcolonial Theory and German-Jewish Studies: The Case of Moses Mendelssohn," invited lecture, German Department and Jewish Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania, October 2, 2003.
"Enlightenment, Orientalism and the Jewish Question: Reflections on the Politics of Biblical Criticism in Eighteenth-Century Germany," invited lecture, conference on "Religion as Colonial Commodity," Yale University, September 18-21, 2003.
[Unable to attend due to family emergency; paper read in my absence.]
"De-Orientalizing Judaism: Moses Mendelssohn and the Frustrations of Oppositional Discourse," invited lecture, Department of European Languages and Literatures, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, March 18, 2003
"Perceptions of Jewish Power around 1800, Or Modern Antisemitism and the Jewish Critique of Modernity," first annual Werner Mosse lecture, Leo Baeck Institute-London, UK, March 17, 2003.
"Perceptions of Jewish Power around 1800: Antisemitism and the Jewish Critique of Modernity," invited lecture, German Department and Jewish Studies Program, University of Virginia, September 2002.
"Perceptions of Jewish Power around 1800: Antisemitism and the Jewish Critique of Modernity," invited lecture for UNC lecture series, "Dislocations: Explorations in German-Jewish Cultural Studies," April 2002.
"Jewish Emancipation and the Politics of Race," invited lecture, conference on "The German Invention of Race," Harvard University, May 4-6, 2001.
"Germans, Jews and the Experience of Modernity," series of lectures delivered to the Triangle Seminar in Jewish Studies, National Humanities Center, March-April 2000.
"Hannah Arendt: Toward a Jewish Politics?" invited lecture, Carolina Seminar on Judaic Studies, National Humanities Center, March 24, 1998.
"Karl Philipp Moritz and the Art of the Body Politic: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Invention of Art," invited lecture, Duke University Department of German Studies, February, 1997.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PAPERS
"Fictions of Acculturation, or Ghetto Literature and the Creation of a German-Jewish Subculture," paper presented at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, September 28-October 1, 2006.
"Out of the Ghetto? The Politics of Nostalgia in German-Jewish Popular Culture," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, DC, December 18-21, 2005.
"The Politics of Orientalism: Reflections on Postcolonial Theory and German-Jewish Studies," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, Illinois, December 18-21, 2004.
"Perceptions of Jewish Power around 1800, Or David Friedländer and the Jewish Critique of Modernity," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, New York, NY, December 2002.
"Perceptions of Jewish Power around 1800, Or David Friedländer and the Jewish Critique of Modernity," paper presented at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association, October 5-8, 2001, Arlington, Virginia.
"De-Orientalizing Judaism: Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem and the Frustrations of Oppositional Discourse," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, December 2000.
"The Orient Writes Back: Saul Ascher’s Prolegomena to a Critique of Jew-Hatred" paper presented at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association, Houston, Texas, October 2000.
"De-Orientalizing Judaism, or Moses Mendelssohn and the Pygmies," paper presented at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1999.
"Orientalism and the Rise of Racial Antisemitism: The Case of Johann David Michaelis," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies," Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 1999.
"Memory, History and the Jewish Question: Modern Citizenship and the Invention of Jewish Memory," paper presented at workshop on "The Work of Memory in Germany," December 5-6, 1998, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
"Johann David Michaelis and the Pied Piper: The Politics of Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century Germany," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion/ Society for Biblical Literature, November 21-24, 1998, Orlando, Florida.
"Sugar Island Jews? Jewish Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Germany," paper presented at the German Studies Association Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 1998.
"The Perils of Specialization: Foreign Language Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Job Market," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Notre Dame, Indiana, April 1-5, 1998.
"Colonizing Diaspora: Christian Wilhelm Dohm and the Eradication of Jewish Alterity," paper presented at the German Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., September 1997.
Modernity, Violence, and the Jewish Question: Christian Wilhelm Dohm and the Eradication of Jewish Alterity," paper presented at the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies East-West Seminar on Progress and Violence in Enlightenment Thought, Berlin, Germany, July, 1997.
"The Art of the Body Politic: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Emergence of Philosophical Aesthetics," paper presented at the Ninth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Münster, Germany, July 23-29, 1995.
"Aesthetics and Politics from Benjamin to Schiller: Rethinking the Aesthetic State," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, November 10-13, 1994
"Kant’s Critique of Historical Judgment: The Origins of Aesthetic Autonomy," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, May 4-7, 1994.
"Art--History--Judgment: Kant and the Contemporary Critical Moment," paper presented at the German Studies Association Conference, Dallas, Texas, September 29-October 2, 1994.
"Organs of Enlightenment: Kant’s Sensus Communis and the Teleology of Taste," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, September 29-October 1, 1993.
"Words of Conversion: Ludwig Börne and the Writing of Jewish Emancipation," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest/Modern Language Association, Chicago, November 14-16, 1991.
"Killing Signs: Lessing and the Politics of Bourgeois Tragedy," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, April 10-14, 1991.
"Storming Images: Kleist’s ‘Saint Cecilia or the Power of Music,’" paper presented at the International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Fine Arts of the Nineteenth Century, Laurinburg, North Carolina, October 17-20, 1990.
OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
Section Chair, session on "The German-Jewish Love Affair," annual meeting of the German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, September 28-October 1, 2006.
Section Chair, "Theoretical Approaches to Nationalism and Transnationalism," Conference on "National Scholarship and Transnational Experience: Politics, Identity, and Objectivity in the Humanities and Social Sciences," UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC April 6-8, 2006.
Commentator, session on "Race: Language, Science, Philosophy," German Studies Association, San Diego, CA, October 2002.
Commentator, Goethe Society of North America session on "Goethe and the Ego," German Studies Association, Houston, TX, October 2000.
Commentator, Sawyer Seminar on Liberalism, National Humanities Center, November 1999.
Session Organizer and Chair, Goethe Society of North America session on "Goethe and the Question of National Identity," German Studies Assocation, Atlanta, GA, October 1999.
Session Organizer and Chair, "The Colonial Imaginary in Eighteenth-Century Germany, "Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 1999.
Session Chair, "Philosophical Approaches to Literature," German Studies Association Conference, Salt Lake City, October 1998
Section Organizer and Chair, "Rereading Hannah Arendt for the Eighteenth Century," Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Notre Dame, Indiana, April 1998.
Section Chair, "Matters of Taste: Early Modern Aesthetics," Annual Meeting of the Group in Early Modern Cultural Studies, Chapel Hill, NC, December 1997.
Section Organizer, "Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: The Politics of Difference Around 1800," German Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, September 1997.
Section Organizer and Chair, "Jews and the Discourse of Enlightenment," Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Nashville, Tennessee, April 1997.
Section Organizer and Chair, "The Use and Abuse of Habermas: Eighteenth-Century Public Culture and the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere," Annual Meeting of the East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Washington, DC, October 31-November 3, 1996.
Section Organizer and Chair, "Art, Politics, Ideology: Rethinking the Rise of Aesthetics," Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Austin, Texas, March 27-31, 1996
PRESENTATIONS TO NON-ACADEMIC AUDIENCES
"German-Jewish Life Before the Holocaust," Raleigh-Cary Jewish Community Center, January 7, 2006.
"Contours of Modern Antisemitism," Uhlman Family Seminar in Jewish Studies (continuing education program), Program in Humanities and Human Values, UNC-Chapel Hill, October 29-30, 2005.
"Contours of German-Jewish Life Before the Holocaust," lecture, Chavurah of the High Country, Banner Elk, NC, July 28, 2005.
"Assimilation and Its Discontents: Untold Tales from the Early History of Reform Judaism," lecture, Temple Emanuel, New York, New York, May 17, 2005.
"Assimilation and Its Discontents: Untold Tales from the Early History of Reform Judaism," lecture, Fearrington Chavurah, Fearrington, NC, January 7, 2005.
"Jewish Studies: What’s New at UNC?," lecture, Durham-Chapel Hill Hadassah, November 19, 2003.
"Germany and the Rise of Modern Antisemitism, 1700-1933," lecture, Judea Reform Congregation, November 22, 2003.
"Contours of Modern Antisemitism," guest lecture, Raleigh Charter High School, May 20, 2003.
"Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity," lecture and book talk, Chapel Hill Kehillah, Chapel Hill, NC, April 6, 2003.
"Germans, Jews and the Crisis of Modernity, 1781-1871," lecture, Fearrington Chavurah, Fearrington, NC, November 13, 2001.
"Family Politics and the State: Lessing’s Emilia Galotti," guest lecture, East Chapel Hill High School AP German Class, November 14, 2001.
"Print and the Public Sphere: Immanuel Kant and the German Enlightenment," lecture, East Chapel Hill High School AP German Class, September 1998.
"The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Secular Anti-Semitism," lecture, Chapel Hill Kehillah, November 1998.
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