JENS KLENNER Department of German, Bowdoin 7700 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011 (207) 798-7147 [email protected]

EDUCATION______

PhD, Department of Comparative Literature, 2014 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Dr. phil., Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft, Germanistik, 2014 Universität Konstanz, Germany

Co-tutelle, joint transnational dissertation, Princeton University and Universität Konstanz June 2014

Graduate Certificate in Media and Modernity, 2013 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Master of Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, 2008 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Doctoral Student, Cultural Studies, 2002-2005 George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

Magister Artium, American Studies & Literature, History, Cultural Studies, Political Science, 2003 Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT______

BOWDOIN COLLEGE Assistant Professor since 2014 Department of German

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Lecturer Spring 2014 Department of German and English Lecturer Fall 2013 University Center for Human Values / Department of Philosophy Lecturer 2012 - 2013 Department of German and English

FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER UNIVERSITÄT Lecturer Summer 2004 Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS______

Research Grants Faculty Leave Award, Bowdoin College, 2017-18

Fletcher Family Research Award, Bowdoin College, 2016

Faculty Research Award, Bowdoin College, 2015

Pre-Dissertation Research Grant, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, 2008

Language Acquisition Grant, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, 2007

Summer Research Grant, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University, 2007 & 2008

Academic Fellowships Universität Konstanz, Fellow Transatlantische Netzwerk Kooperation, Research grant: May 2010 - August 2010, May 2011 - August 2011, May 2012 – August 2012 , June 2013 – August 2013

Universität Konstanz, Fellow Graduiertenkolleg Das Reale in der Kultur der Moderne Director: Professor Albrecht Koschorke, April 2010 - June 2014

Princeton University, full academic scholarship, 2005 - 2010

George Mason University, full academic scholarship, 2002 – 2005

University of Minnesota Duluth, academic scholarship, merit based, 2000 - 2001

Awards

Erich Kahler Fellowship Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University, 2009, 2010, 2011

Mary Cross Fellowship Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University, 2006

Phi Beta Delta, International Academic Honors Society Epsilon Delta Chapter, George Mason University, 2003

Travel Grants

Dean’s Fund for Scholarly Travel, Princeton University, 2011

MACLA Travel Grant, Austrian Cultural Forum (NY) & Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, 2010

APGA Summer Travel Fellowship, Association of Princeton Graduate Alumnae, 2009

Robert Bosch Foundation, Germany, 2009 & 2011

Volkswagen Foundation, Germany, 2005 & 2010

Graduate Travel Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, George Mason University, 2004 & 2005

Professional Development Grant University Life, George Mason University, 2005

PUBLICATIONS______

“Where the Earth Folded: Celan’s Encounter with Leibniz, August 1959.” New German Critique 45 (2) 2018. (forthcoming)

“’Land der Berge’? Erhaben Unerhabenes in Frost und Die Kinder der Toten.” In Intertextualität - Korrelationen - Korrespondenzen. und . Eds. Reinert, Bastian and Clemens Götze. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. 158-69. (forthcoming)

“»Die Vermieter des Intellekts«: Kopflanger and Handlanger in Brecht and Kafka. (2010)” Journal of the Kafka Society of America 31/32 (1-2) 2007/08. 62-79.

“Ektopia: Skizze einer anatomischen Geographie in Thomas Bernhards Amras.” Modern Austrian Literature 42 (1) 2009. 63-84.

“Spontaneous Spaces of Memory: Revisiting our Milieux de Mémoire.” In The Merits of Memory: Concepts, Contexts, Debates. Eds. Grabbe, Hans-Jürgen and Sabine Schindler. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. 17-34.

Jens Klenner 3/18 - 2 BOOK REVIEWS______

Idyll with Drowning Dog and Madalyn. Michael Köhlmeier. Trans. David B. Dollenmayer. Riverside: Ariadne Press, 2016. Journal of Austrian Studies 51 (2) 2018. (forthcoming)

Ingeborg Bachmann und : Historisch-poetische Korrelationen. Ed. Gernot Wimmer. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. Journal of Austrian Studies 49 (3-4) 2016. 141-43.

Samuel Frederick. Narratives Unsettled: Digression in , Thomas Bernhard, and . Northwestern UP, 2012. Journal of Austrian Studies 47 (4) 2014. 136-38.

Hermann Broch und die Künste. Eds. Staskova, Alice and Paul Michael Lützeler. DeGruyter, 2009. Journal of Austrian Studies 45 (3-4) 2012. 138-40.

akten-kundig? Literatur, Zeitgeschichte und Archiv. Eds. Marcel Atze et al. Wien: prae/sens, 2008. Modern Austrian Literature 43 (4) 2010. 104-06.

Michael Billenkamp. Thomas Bernhard: Narrativik und poetologische Praxis. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. The German Quarterly 83 (3) 2010. 386-87.

Thomas J. Cousineau. Three-Part Inventions: The Novels of Thomas Bernhard. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. The German Quarterly 83 (2) 2010. 256-58.

CONFERENCES, COLLOQUIA & SEMINARS______

Invited Talks “De Profundis – E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Untranslatable Nature in Bergwerke zu Falun,” Ecological Archives: Histories of Environment in Emory University, March 23-24, 2018

“Kafka in the Office: White-Collar Workers in 20th Century Literature,” San Diego State University, October 3, 2016

“Viennese Violence: Jelinek’s Die Ausgesperrten,” , December 4, 2015

“Mountains Dissolved: Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Kinder der Toten,” Bowdoin College, January 31, 2014

“Friendship: Analog and Digital,” Panel Discussion, DIGITAL CULTURES, Dept. of North American Studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany, October 30, 2013

“Turning the Screw,” Grundkurs Literature, Dr. Karin Höpker, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Germany December 21, 2010

Selected Conference Presentations “Man-Made Nature? Cosmogonies of the Anthropocene,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 5-7, 2017.

“Sleepless in the Office: The Author as Young Manager,” European Studies Network, , Lewiston, ME, January 28, 2017.

“disasterscape 2.0 – Kathrin Röggla’s Poetics of Crisis,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, September 29 – October 2, 2016.

“Language Comes Back to Roost - Werner Schwab’s Constructive Revenge,” International Comparative Literature Association, Vienna, Austria, July 21–27, 2016.

Jens Klenner 3/18 - 3 “disasterscape 2.0 – Kathrin Röggla’s Austro-American Media Translations,” Annual Symposium of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, Vienna, Austria, March 14-17, 2016.

“’Es hat sich die Erde gefaltet hier oben:’ Celan’s Mountain Poetics,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, September 18-21, 2014.

“Taussig’s Terror” Terror und Phantastik, conference of the Graduiertenkolleg Das Reale in der Kultur der Moderne in collaboration with the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kunlturwissenschaften IFK Wien, Vienna, Austria, March 24-25, 2011.

“Jelineks barockes Schreiben: Die Kinder der Toten” Annual Symposium of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, Vienna, Austria, May 22-25, 2010.

“»Vermieter des Intellekts«: Brecht and Kafka” Twentieth-Century Forum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, May 6, 2009.

“»Denken als Dienstleistung«: von Kopflangern und Handlangern in Brecht und Kafka,” Kafka, Brecht and Labor, special session organized by the Kafka Society of America 2008 MLA Convention, San Francisco, CA, December 27-30, 2008.

“Ektopia - Narrative Topographies of Displacement in Thomas Bernhard’s Amras” German Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, October 4–7, 2007.

“Spontaneous Spaces of Memory: Revisiting our Milieux de Mémoire” The Merits of Memory: Uses and Abuses of a Concept, Universität Halle Wittenberg - Stiftung Leucorea Halle Wittenberg, Germany, June 24–26, 2005.

“Cruising Spaces of Hyperrealism: The Humvee in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and the Benefits of Literature for Cultural Studies,” Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) Annual Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, May 5–9, 2004.

Panel Respondent “Thomas Bernhard’s Frenemies,” Annual Symposium of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, Chicago, IL, March 16-19, 2017.

“Literature and Ecocriticism” German Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, September 29 – October 2, 2016.

“Poetics and Politics of Memory” German Studies Association Annual Conference, St. Paul, MN, October 2-5, 2008.

Invited Seminar Participant Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Faculty Workshop, “Art and Nature: Science, Environment, and Ecocriticism,” Bowdoin College & , December 14-15, 2015

Andrew W. Mellow Foundation Faculty Workshop, “Photography in Focus,” Bowdoin College & Colby College, May 19-20, 2015

Transatlantisches Seminar, “Theorien des Sprachursprungs,” led by Rüdiger Campe (Yale University), Albrecht Koschorke (Universität Konstanz), David Wellbery (University of Chicago), Universität Konstanz, Germany, July 17–19, 2013

Princeton Global Scholar Seminar, “Ideologies of Sexual (In)Difference,” led by Slavoj Žižek (Univerza v Ljubljani), Princeton University, April 4-16, 2012

Transatlantisches Seminar, “Vorformen des Sinns,” led by Albrecht Koschorke (Universität Konstanz) and Wellbery (University of Chicago), University of Chicago, April 2-4, 2012

Transatlantisches Seminar, “Räume der Literatur,” led by Susanne Lüdemann (University of Chicago) and Juliane Vogel (Universität Konstanz), University of Chicago, March 29-30, 2012

Jens Klenner 3/18 - 4 Paul Celan Seminar, “Momentaufnahme, Familiengedächtnis, Erzählverfahren: Die Poetik des Albums in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur,” led by Annegret Pelz (Universität Wien) with Marcel Beyer and Willhelm Genazino, Max Kade Center for Contemporary Germany Literature, Washington University in St. Louis, held at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach, Germany, June 2-4, 2011

Transatlantisches Seminar, “Mimesis und Poiesis,” led by Rüdiger Campe (Yale University), Albrecht Koschorke (Universität Konstanz), David Wellbery (University of Chicago), Universität Konstanz, Germany, June 10–12, 2010

Paul Celan Seminar, “Erinnerungskultur und Gender Politics: Zum neuen deutschen Familienroman,” led by Walter Erhart (Universität Bielefeld) with Hans-Ulrich Treichel and Kathrin Schmidt, Max Kade Center for Contemporary Germany Literature, Washington University in St. Louis, held at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach, Germany, June 26–28, 2009

Transatlantisches Seminar, “Auftreten und Erzählen in der antiken Tragödie,” led by David Levin (University of Chicago), Juliane Vogel (Universität Konstanz), Christopher Wild (University of Chicago), Universität Konstanz, June, 26– 28, 2008

Transatlantisches Seminar, “Dramaturgie der Gewalt,” led by David Levin (University of Chicago), Juliane Vogel (Universität Konstanz), Christopher Wild (University of Chicago), Universität Konstanz, June 28–July 1, 2007

Paul Celan Seminar, “The German Novel from Heinrich Böll to Christoph Hein,” led by Matías Martínez (Universität Wuppertal) with Christoph Hein and Angela Krauß, held at Max Kade Center for Contemporary Germany Literature, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, March 25-27, 2005

Seminar in Philosophy and Aesthetics, “Cinema, a Passion of the Real,” led by Slavoj Žižek (Univerza v Ljubljani), Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Germany, June 30-July 3, 2004

TEACHING______

BOWDOIN COLLEGE Assistant Professor Elementary German I (GER 1101), Fall 2014 Elementary German II (GER 1102), Spring 2017 Into the Wild (GER/ENVS 1155), Spring 2015, Fall 2016 Germany Within Europe (GER 2203), Fall 2016 German History through Visual Culture (GER 2204), Spring 2016 German Youth Culture (GER 2205), Fall 2015 “Made in Germany” (GER 3310), Spring 2015 and Culture since 1945 (GER 3317), Fall 2014 Mapping Germany: Nature & Knowledge (GER/ENVS 3391), Spring 2016 Contemporary Austrian Literature & Culture (GER 3394), Fall 2015 Narrating Crisis & Catastrophe (GER 3399), Spring 2017

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Instructor Beginner’s German I (GER 101), Department of German, Fall 2009 Beginner’s German II (GER 102), Department of German, Spring 2013, 2014 Intensive Intermediate German (GER 102-5), Department of German, Spring 2010, 2011, 2013 Intermediate German (GER 105), Department of German, Fall 2010, 2012 Senior Thesis Writing Group, Department of Comparative Literature, 2010–2011 Graduate Pedagogy Seminar (COM 500) with Professor Eileen Reeves, Department of Comparative Literature, Fall 2010 Assistant in Instruction (Preceptor) The Classical Roots of Western Literature (COM 205), Professor Daniel Heller-Roazen Department of Comparative Literature, Fall 2007 (3 sections) Introduction to German Philosophy (GER 210), Professor Arnd Wedemeyer Department of German, Spring 2008 Children’s Literature (ENG 385), Professor William Gleason Department of English, Spring 2012 (6 sections), Spring 2014 (Head AI, 5 sections) Food and Literature (ENG 224), Professor Anne Cheng Department of English, Spring 2013 (Head AI)

Jens Klenner 3/18 - 5 , Fiction, and Film (ENG 220/COM 226), Professor Michael Wood Department of English, Fall 2012 (6 sections) Reading Literature: Fiction (ENG 206), Professor Zahid Chaudhary Department of English, Fall 2011 (2 sections a 90mins) Practical Ethics (CHV 310/PHI 385), Professor Peter Singer University Center for Human Values, Fall 2011 (3 sections), Fall 2013 (Head AI, 9 sections)

Guest Lecturer “Guilt without crime: Kafka & O. Wells” Crime, Fiction, and Film (ENG 220/COM 226), October 22 & 24, 2012 “Trying Kafka: Kafka’s Trial,” Reading Literature: Fiction (ENG 206), October 20 & 25, 2011 “Friedrich Nietzsche,” Introduction to German Philosophy (GER 210), April 8, 2008

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY Assistant in Instruction Research Methods (HNRS 110), Professor Lisa Koch Honors Program in General Education, Fall 2004

FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER UNIVERSITÄT Lecturer Memory, History, Popular Culture: Strategies of Remembrance in late 20th-Century USA (Proseminar), Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Summer 2004 Tutor Introduction to Literary Studies (Tutorial), Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Summer 2002 Introduction to Cultural Studies (Tutorial), Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Winter 2001

UNIVERSITY SERVICE, CONFERENCE & EXHIBIT ORGANIZATION______

BOWDOIN COLLEGE Search Committee Member Visiting Assistant Professor of German 2016-2017 Committee Member Curriculum Implementation Committee 2015-2017 Lecture Organizer Uwe Timm, “In My Brother’s Shadow: An Evening with Uwe Timm,” reading & campus visit, October 18, 2016. Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley College, “Still the Good Germany? Deportation, Surveillance, and New Narratives of Postwar History,” lecture, October 12, 2016. Jonas Lüscher, “’The Beauty of Crisis’ A reading from the Novella Frühling der Barbaren,” reading & campus, March 3, 2015. Exhibit Organizer Pop-up Exhibit “25 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall,” November 4, 2014 Language Proficiency Evaluator DAAD German Exchange Service, 2014-present Fulbright in Germany and Austria, 2014-present Participating Faculty Andrew W. Mellow Foundation Course Cluster “Studies in Beauty,” 2014-present Service to the Community Panelist “Foreigners Out: Schlingensief's Container,” Bowdoin College Museum of Art, November 10, 2016 Faculty Representative, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum External Review, Bowdoin College, November 8, 2016 Panelist New Faculty Orientation, Bowdoin College, August 24, 2016

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Faculty Fellow Mathey College Graduate Liaison Committee Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University, 2005–2011

Workshop Organizer “95 Theses on Philology,” Workshop with Werner Hamacher, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, November 10, 2010

Jens Klenner 3/18 - 6 Symposium Organizer “Poetry of the Americas,” 5th Graduate Student Comparative Poetics Symposium, April 17, 2010 “Currency,” 4th Graduate Student Comparative Poetics Symposium, April 26, 2008

Lecture Series Coordinator “Works in Progress Colloquium,” Comparative Literature, Spring 2008-2010 “Graduate Student Colloquium,” Comparative Literature, Fall 2009, 2010 Special Events Committee “The Human and Its Others,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, March 23–26, 2006

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY Conference Coordinator “Nervous Borders: People, Politics and Culture Flows after 9/11,” Cultural Studies Program, April 6–7, 2005 “A New World of Work,” Cultural Studies Program, April 15, 2004 “New Sex: Changing Conditions for Gender, Sexuality, and Intimacy,” Cultural Studies Program, March 27, 2003 Co-Chair Student Organizational Committee, Cultural Studies Program, 2004–2005

FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER UNIVERSITÄT Conference Coordinator “Imaginary (Re-)Locations: Tradition, Modernity, and the Market in Contemporary Native American Literature and Culture,” Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, July 6–9, 2001

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE______

Manuscript Review and Consultation Gegenwartsliteratur. A German Studies Yearbook (2014)

LANGUAGES______

German native English near-native French proficient Latin proficient Spanish basic

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS______

Modern Language Association, German Studies Association, Austrian Studies Association, Kafka Society of America, International Association for Literature and Philosophy, American Comparative Literature Association, Cultural Studies Association (U.S.), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikaforschung

REFERENCES______

available upon request

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