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Ritchie Robertson (born 1952) is a Professor of German at Oxford University and a Fellow and Tutor of St John's College, Oxford. His books include Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985), tr. as Kafka: Judentum, Gesellschaft, Literatur, (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1988); Heine, in the series Jewish Thinkers (London: Peter Halban, 1988), tr. as Heinrich Heine (Vienna: Eichbauer, 1997); The `Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939: Emancipation and its Discontents (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Kafka: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). He has edited The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) and, with Katrin Kohl, a History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000 (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006). He has recently completed Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine, to be published by Oxford University Press. He was co-editor of the yearbook Austrian Studies from 1990 to 1999 and has been Germanic Editor of the Modern Language Review since 2000. He was elected to the British Academy in 2004 and is currently Chair of its section ‘H6: Modern Literature and Other Media’. |
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Born in Vienna, Austria, came to the US in 1939, obtained B.A. at Rutgers University in 1941, MA in 1944, Ph. D. in German at Columbia University in 1953. Taught German and World Literature and German Intellectual History at Columbia, Stanford, University of Virginia (as a member of the Center for Advanced Study), with guest professorships at Harvard, Rutgers, Universities of Hamburg, Freiburg, Graz. Since 1994 Commonwealth Professor Emeritus of German and English Literature, University of Virginia, residing in San Francisco. Served on the Executive Committee of the MLA. Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Pen Club (Austria). Recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment of the Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Graz, Cross of Merit, First Class, of the Federal Republic of Austria. Published a book on German Expressionist Literature, three books on Franz Kafka, edited an Anthology of German Expressionist Drama (in English translations), and published numerous scholarly articles on subjects of German and European literature and philosophy, ranging chronologically from Schiller to Peter Handke. |
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John Zilcosky is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, and chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing (2003), which won the MLA’s Scaglione Prize, awarded biennially to one work on the linguistics or literatures of the Germanic languages. He has written widely on modern European literature, travel writing, psychoanalysis, and literary theory. Recently, he has published articles on Sebald, Kant, Freud, Celan, Adorno, T.S. Eliot, and Nietzsche, and he edited Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey (2008). He has lectured at universities in the USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Ireland, China, and Brazil. His work has been supported by the Fulbright and Humboldt foundations, as well as the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. |
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