Conference Organizers
Ruth V. Gross

Present Position: Professor of German; Head, Department of Foreign Languages, North Carolina State University.
Previous Career: PhD, Yale University. Professor and Chair of the Department of Humanities, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester; Professor and Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Texas, Arlington; Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas, Arlington.
Selected Publications: Co-author, with Richard Gray, Rolf Goebel, and Clayton Koelb, of A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia (Greenwood P, 2005); co-editor, with Thomas Adam, of Traveling Between Worlds: German-American Encounters (Texas A&M P, 2006); and author of many essays on Kafka and other modern German writers.
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Clayton Koelb
Present Position: Guy B. Johnson Distinguished Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature; Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Previous Career: PhD, Harvard University. Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago; Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Chicago; Visiting Professor of German, Princeton University (among other guest professorships); Guggenheim fellow.
Selected Publications: Author of Kafka’s Rhetoric: The Passion of Reading (Cornell UP, 1989), among other books; co-editor, with Eric Downing, of The Camden House History of German Literature, Vol. 9: German Literature of the Nineteenth Century (Camden House, 2005); and author of many essays on European literature and culture.
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James Rolleston

Present Position: Professor Emeritus of German, Duke University; Editor, The German Quarterly.
Previous Career:  PhD, Yale University. Founding Director of the Literature Program, Duke University; Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Duke University; winner of the Literary Translation Prize, American Translators Association; past president, South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Selected Publications:  Author of Kafka’s Narrative Theater (Penn State UP, 1974), among other books; editor of A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka (Camden House, 2002, with contributions from R. Gross, C. Koelb, and three of the keynote speakers), among others; and author of many essays on modern German literature and culture.
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