Department of Germanic Languages
University of North Carolina
438 Dey Hall, CB# 3160
Chapel Hill  NC 27599

• Harvard University, 1965-69: graduate studies in Comparative Literature; M.A  June 1966; Ph.D. June 1970.
• Freie Universität, Berlin, 1964-65: studies in European languages, literatures, and cultures.
• Harvard College, 1960-64: Harvard College Scholarship, 1961-64; B.A. 1964, magna cum laude in Germanic Languages and Literatures.

• Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1997- .
• Guy B. Johnson Professor of German and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill,  1991- .
• Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006- .
• Visiting Professor of English, University of Minnesota, 1992-93.
• Visiting Eugene Falk Professor of Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1990.
• Visiting Professor of German, Princeton University, 1985-86.
• Visiting Professor of English and German and Chair of Comparative Literature, Purdue University, 1984-85.
• Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, 1978-82.
• Acting Chair, Committee on Comparative Studies in Literature, University of Chicago, 1976.
• Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, 1969-91.

• Consultant reader for presses (Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, LSU, McGill-Queens, Oxford, Princeton, Purdue, SUNY, University of California, University of Chicago, Wayne State) and for journals  (PMLA, The German Quarterly, Germanic Review, The Journal of Religion, Law and Literature, Michigan Germanic Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Modern Austrian Literature, Seminar, Mosaic, Focus on Literature).
• Editorial board member: Modern Fiction Studies, 1991-95 (guest co-editor, 1987; member of Margaret Church Prize Committee, 1990-93);   Journal of the Kafka Society of America, 1988- ; International Review of Modernism, 1997- .
• Officer of the Kafka Society of America: Executive Committee, 1988- ; Vice-president, 1991-93; President, 1993-95.
• Visiting Committee to the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 1990-96.
• MLA: Executive Committee, Division of 20th-Century German Literature, 1993-98; Delegate Assembly, 1995-98; Scaglione book prize selection committee, 1996-98 (Chair 1998).
• Reviewer for granting agencies: National Endowment for the Humanities, Newberry Library, Canada Council, Guggenheim Foundation.

FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES

• Phi Beta Kappa,  David McCord Prize, Susan Anthony Potter Prize, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Danforth Foundation Fellowship, Germanistic Society of America Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship.

• Thomas Mann's "Goethe and Tolstoy": Notes and Sources. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1984. x + 255 pp.
• The Incredulous Reader: Literature and the Function of Disbelief. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1984. 240 pp.
• (Ed., with Virgil Lokke) The Current in Criticism: Essays on the Present and Future of Literary Theory. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1987. xx + 371 pp.
• (Ed., with Susan Noakes) The Comparative Perspective on Literature: Approaches to Theory and Practice. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988. viii + 378 pp. Far Eastern edition, Taipei: Bookman Books, 1988.
• Inventions of Reading: Rhetoric and the Literary Imagination. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988. xiv + 265 pp.
• Kafka's Rhetoric: The Passion of Reading. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1989. xvi + 263 pp.
• (Ed.) Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. viii + 350 pp.
• (Ed.and trans.) Thomas Mann, Death in Venice: A New Translation, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994. viii + 237 pp.
• Legendary Figures: Ancient History in Modern Novels. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xxvii + 186 pp.
• (Ed., with Eric Downing) The Camden House History of German Literature, Vol. 9: German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899. Rochester, NY: Camden House/Boydell & Brewer, 2005. vii + 348 pp.
• (with Richard Gray, Ruth Gross, and Rolf Goebel) A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. xlvi + 344 pp.

(ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS)

• "The 'Einfall' in Dürrenmatt's Theory and Practice," Deutsche Beiträge zur geistigen Überlieferung, Vol. 7, 1972, pp. 240-259.
• "'Tragedy' as an Evaluative Term," Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 1974, pp. 69-84.
• "John Barth's 'Glossolalia,'" Comparative Literature, Vol. 26, No. 4, Fall 1974, pp. 365-372.
• "The Problem of Tragedy as a Genre," Genre, Vol. 8, No. 3, September 1975, pp. 248-266.
• "The Deletions from Kafka's Novels," Monatshefte, Vol. 68, No. 4, Winter 1976, pp. 365-372.
• "Thomas Mann's 'Coat of Many Colors,'" German Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 4, November 1976, pp. 472-484.
• (with Reena Spicehandler) "The Influence of Flaubert's Salammbô on Mann's Joseph und seine Brüder," Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 13, No. 4, December 1976, pp. 315-322.
• "Some Problems of Literary Taxonomy," Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Fall, 1977, pp. 233-244.
• "Mann, Hoffmann, and Callot's Manner," Germanic Review, Vol. 52, No. 4, 1977, pp. 260-273.
• "Mann's Use of Hebrew in the Joseph Novel," Monatshefte, Vol. 70, No. 2, Summer 1978, pp. 138-150.
• "The Iambic Pentameter Revisited," Neophilologus, Vol. 63, 1979, pp. 321-329; rpt. in A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama, ed. Vivian Salmon and Edwina Burness (John Benjamins, 1987), pp. 433-441.
• "Tragedy and the Tragic: The Shakespearean Connection," Genre, Vol. 13, No. 3, Fall 1980, pp. 275-286.
• (with Hillel Einhorn) "A Psychometric Study of Literary Critical Judgment, Modern Language Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3, Summer 1982, pp. 59-82.
• "'In der Strafkolonie': Kafka and the Scene of Reading," German Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 4, November 1982, pp. 511-525; rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Gale Research, 1995).
• "Kafka's Rhetorical Moment," PMLA, Vol. 98, No. 1, January 1983, pp. 37-46.
• "The Genesis of Thomas Mann's 'Goethe und Tolstoi,'" Monatshefte, Vol. 75, No. 1, Spring 1983, pp. 55-68.
• "The Schein der Falschheit in Breitinger's Poetics," Michigan Germanic Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall 1983, pp. 129-140.
• "Nietzsche, Malerba, and the Aesthetics of Superficiality," boundary 2, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1983, pp.
• "Aristotle, Boccaccio, and the Problem of the Incredible," Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 1984, pp. 1-11.
• "The Language of Presence in Varley's 'The Persistence of Vision,'" Science-Fiction Studies, Vol. 11, Part 2, July 1984, pp. 154-165.
• "Strange Power of Speech: Holy/Unholy Language in Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner,'" Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate, Vol. 37, No. 3, Summer 1984, pp. 201-214.
• "The Goethean Model of the Self in Kafka's Brief an den Vater," Journal of the Kafka Society of America, Vol. 8, Nos. 1/2, June/December 1984, pp. 14-19.
• "The Text as Erotic/Auto-erotic Device," The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 2, Winter 1985, pp. 212-224.
• "Toward a Glossematic Theory of Meter," Language and Style, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 1985, pp. 165-184.
• "The Kafkan Parable as Antithetical Hypersign," Semiotics 1984 (Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America), ed. John Deely (University Press of America, 1985), pp. 85-93.
• "The Authority of the Text: Paul de Man and the Humanistic Tradition," Humanism and the Humanities in Historical Perspective, a special issue of Storia della Storiografia, (No. 9, 1986), pp. 91-103.
• "The Lived Rhetoric of Franz Kafka," Journal of the Kafka Society of America, Vol. 10, Nos. 1/2, 1986, pp. 63 67.
• "The Margin in the Middle: Kafka's Other Reading of Reading," Franz Kafka and the Contemporary Critical Performance: Centenary Readings, ed. Alan Udoff (Indiana University Press, 1987), pp. 76-86.
• "'Parler Sans Parler': The Rhetoricity of Fictional Discourse," The Current in Criticism, ed. C. Koelb and V. Lokke (Purdue University Press, 1987), pp. 159 173.
• "Preface," special issue on narrative theory, Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 33, No. 3, 1987, pp. 407-412.
• "The Story in the Image: Rhetoric and Narrative Invention," Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 33, No. 3, 1987, pp. 509-522.
• "Inspiration and Possession: Ambivalent Intimacy with the Alien," Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction, ed. George Slusser and Eric Rabkin (Southern Illinois University Press, 1987), pp. 157-167.
• "Kafka and the Sirens: Writing as Lethetic Reading," The Comparative Perspective on Literature, ed. C. Koelb and S. Noakes (Cornell University Press, 1988), pp. 300-314; rpt. in Homer [Classical Heritage Series, Vol. 5], ed. Katherine Callen King (Garland Publishing, 1994), pp. 191-207.
• "The Turn of the Trope: Kafka's 'Die Brücke,'" Modern Austrian Literature, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1989, pp. 57-70.
• "Reading Is Fundamental: Norman Mailer and the Rhetoric of Narrative," Texte: Revue de Critique et de Théorie Littéraire 8/9, 1989, pp. 293-305.
• "Reading as a Philosophical Strategy: Nietzsche's The Gay Science," Nietzsche as Postmodernist, ed. C. Koelb (SUNY Press, 1990), 143-160.
• "Incorporating the Text: Kleist's 'Michael Kohlhaas'," PMLA, Vol. 105, No. 5, October 1990, pp. 1098-1107.
• "The Bonds of Flesh and Blood: Having It Both Ways in 'The Merchant of Venice,'" Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1993, pp. 107-113.
• "Castration Envy: Nietzsche and the Figure of Woman," Nietzsche and the Feminine, ed. Peter J. Burgard (University Press of Virginia, 1994), pp. 71-81.
• "Rede als Erlebnis: Die Tagebücher Kafkas," Österreichische Tagebuchschriftsteller, ed. Donald Daviau (Wien: Edition Atelier, 1994), pp. 171-190.
• "The Metamorphosis of the Classics: John Barth, Philip Roth, and the European Tradition ," Traditions, Voices, and Dreams: The American Novel Since the 1960s, ed. Melvin J. Friedman and Ben Siegel (Univ. of Delaware Press, 1995), pp. 108-128.
• "Wrestling with Proteus: Irony in Kierkegaard's Either/Or," Narrative Ironies, ed. Raymond A. Prier and Gerald Gillespie (Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 21-31.
• “Thomas Mann,” Encarta Encyclopedia 99 [CD-ROM] (Microsoft Corp., 1998).
• “Franz Kafka,” Encyclopedia of German Literature, ed. Matthias Konzett (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000).
• “Aesthetics,” Encyclopedia of German Literature, ed. Matthias Konzett (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000).
• “The Medium of History: Robert Graves and the Ancient Past,” Comparative Literary Dimensions: Essays in Honor of Melvin J. Friedman, ed. Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel (University of Delaware Press, 2000), pp. 31-47.
• “German Literature,” Encarta Encyclopedia [CD-ROM] (Microsoft Corp., 2001).
• Trans. of Thomas Mann, Death in Venice rpt. in Sarah Lawall, ed., The Norton Anthology of World Literature, 2^nd ed., vol. F (New York, W.W. Norton) 2001.
• "Kafka Imagines His Readers: The Rhetoric of ‘Josephine the Singer’ and ‘The Burrow,’" A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka, ed. James Rolleston (Camden House, 2002), pp. 347-359.
• “Critical Editions: Will the Real Franz Kafka Please Stand Up?” A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka, ed. James Rolleston (Camden House, 2002), pp. 27-31.
• “Death in Venice," A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann, ed. Herbert Lehnert and Eva Wessell  (Camden House, 2004), pp. 95-113.
• “The Lasciviousness of Ruin” [on Mann’s Death in Venice], A New History of German Literature, ed. David E. Wellbery  et al. (Harvard University Press, 2005), pp. 683-88.
• (with Eric Downing)  “Introduction,” The Camden House History of German Literature, Vol. 9: German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899. (Camden House, 2005), pp. 1-19.