JOSIAH SIMON, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae
Assistant Professor of German Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures Valparaiso University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Present Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures (German). Valparaiso University, Indiana.
2016-2018 Visiting Assistant Professor of German. Carleton College, Minnesota. Department of German and Russian. Courses Taught: Elementary and Intermediate German; "Introduction to German Jewish Literature and Thought"; "The Faustian Theme in German Cultural History."
2016 (June, 2016) Adjunct Visiting Assistant Professor of German. The German Summer School in Taos, New Mexico. Courses Taught: German Children's Stories; "German Judaism in Context."
2015-2016 Visiting Assistant Professor of German. California State University, Long Beach. Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures. Courses Taught: German Cinema; Survey of German Literature and Culture I and II; German Conversation; Contemporary German Society; "Philosophy for Students of Literature" (MA level); Goethe (MA level).
2014-2015 Full-time Instructor of German. Program Coordinator - Texas Language Consortium. Schreiner University, Kerrville, Texas. Elementary German and Intermediate German; Interdisciplinary Studies.
2008-2014 Graduate Teaching Fellow. University of Oregon, Department of German and Scandinavian. Courses Taught: Elementary German; Intermediate German; Advanced German; German Cinema. Teaching Assistant and Discussion Leader: German Culture and Thought; Scandinavian Film.
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2006-2007 High School German Teacher; Austin Waldorf School, Austin, Texas. German Language; Juggling Elective.
2005 (June-July, 2005) German Instructor. The German Summer School in Taos. Courses Taught: Intermediate German.
2004-2006 Teaching Assistant. University of New Mexico, Department of Languages and Literatures; four semesters of elementary and intermediate German.
AREAS OF INTEREST Early 20th-century German Literature and Thought (Weimar Period); German Jewish Studies and Religious Thought; 19th-century German Literature and Thought; German Cinema (Weimar; New German Cinema); German Philosophy; Intellectual History and Philosophical Biography; Language Pedagogy; Goethe; Translation; Frankfurt School (Adorno and Benjamin).
EDUCATION & DEGREES
2008-2014 Ph.D in German, University of Oregon, Dept. of German and Scandinavian. Dissertation Title: "Franz Rosenzweig's Hegel and the State: Biography, History and Tragedy." Committee: Jeffrey Librett, Martin Klebes, Kenneth Calhoon, John McCole.
2007-2008 Post-graduate studies; Kassel Universität, Germany.
2006 M.A. with distinction in German Studies, University of New Mexico, Department of Languages and Literatures. Thesis title: "Introducing Hegel and the State: The Early Rosenzweig, Biography and History."
2004 B.A, cum laude, University of New Mexico. Double-Major in German and Philosophy.
2002-2003 Ruprecht-Karls Universität, Heidelberg, Germany. Courses in philosophy, translation and German studies.
2001 Die Deutsche Sommerschule in Taos, New Mexico.
2 ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
2016-2018 Teaching Assistants Coordinator, Carleton College
2014-2015 Program Coordinator, Texas Language Consortium, Schreiner University
2014-2015 Student Travel Committee, Schreiner University
2015 Faculty Affairs Committee, Schreiner University (elected)
PUBLICATIONS
Book: In Progress: "Thinking in Stations": The Tragic Dimension of Franz Rosenzweig's Hegel and the State - In the Context of his Friendship with Hans Ehrenberg. [Harmut Spenner Verlag, Germany]
Articles & Essays:
"Journey to the 'Realm of the Mothers': Franz Rosenzweig's Response to Goethe's Faust." Forthcoming: Goethe Symposium - Collected Volume. University of Dallas, Peter Lang (2018).
"Die Liebe zum Tragischen: Bemerkungen zu Hans Ehrenbergs Tragödie und Kreuz." Hans Ehrenberg als Grenzgänger zwischen Philosophie und Theologie. Hans Ehrenberg Studien, Band I. Hrsg. Traugott Jähnichen u. Andreas Losch. Waltrop: Hartmut Spenner, 2017 (41-57).
Co-authored (with Jules Simon). "Foreword." Franz Rosenzweigs Jugendschriften 1907-1914, Philosophie: Teil II. Hegel. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2015 (7-19).
"On the Origins of Rosenzweig's "Metaethics": Kant, Hegel and Goethe." Proceedings of the Internationale Rosenzweig Gesellschaft, vol. 1, nº1 (2014) 143-154.
3 Co-authored (with Jules Simon). "Hegel und der Staat," introductory chapter published in Franz Rosenzweig. Religionsphilosoph aus Kassel. Ed. Schmied- Kowarzik and Schulz-Jander. Kassel: Euregio Verlag, 2011 (31-37).
Review Essay: Rosenzweig im Gespräch mit Ehrenberg, Cohen und Buber, by Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik. Published in Das Rosenzweig Jahrbuch / Rosenzweig Yearbook, Band 3. Verlag Karl Alber: 2008 (273-83).
"Walter Benjamin’s "The Life of Students"," published in Best Student Essays, Fall 2004. University of New Mexico: Student Publications Board, 2004.
Translations:
"Brief Illuminations on the Dialogue between Franz Rosenzweig and Hans Ehrenberg," by Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik. Translation from German. Das Rosenzweig Jahrbuch/Rosenzweig Yearbook, Band 8. Verlag Karl Alber, 2014 (87-111)
"Philosophy of Revelation. Remarks on Schelling, Jaspers and Rosenzweig," by Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik. Translation from German. Published in Philosophical Faith and the Future of Humanity. Ed. Wautischer. New York: Springer, 2012 (147-158).
Book Reviews:
Das Denken Rosenzweigs zwischen Theologie und Philosophie. Eine Herausforderung für das Christentum, by Francesco Barba. Forthcoming in Das Rosenzweig Jahrbuch/Rosenzweig Yearbook, Band 9. Verlag Karl Alber: 2017.
Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought, by David N. Myers. Published in European Legacy, Volume 18:2, 2013.
History Man: The Life of R.G. Collingwood, by Fred Inglis. Published in European Legacy, Volume 16:3, 2011.
Memories of Kreisau and the German Resistance, by Freya von Moltke. Published in European Legacy, Volume IV, I, 2006.
4 CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
"Rosenzweig and Ehrenberg on Tragic Form: Variations on Goethe's Religion." Religious Cultures Network, "Religious Experience and Literary Form," German Studies Association, Atlanta (Oct. 5-8, 2017).
"Denken in Stationen: Hans Ehrenbergs Geistepoche im Ringen mit Literatur und Philosophie." Hans Ehrenberg Lectures; Ruhr-Universität, Bochum (July 13, 2017).
"Das Schicksal waltet!" Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin and Hans Ehrenberg on Tragedy." International Rosenzweig Congress. Sapienza University of Rome. (Feb. 20 -23, 2017).
Participant and Contributor : "Germany and the Confessional Divide, 1871- 1990." Seminar. German Studies Association, San Diego, CA. (Sept. 29 - Oct. 2, 2016).
"'In deinem Nichts hoff' ich das All zu finden': Philosophical Responses to Goethe's Faust. Dallas Goethe Symposium, University of Dallas. (April 21-22, 2016).
"The Redemption of the Tragic? Hans Ehrenberg on Goethe's Faust." Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA). Portland, Oregon (November 6-8, 2015).
“Hans Ehrenbergs Begriff der Tragödie: Ein judenchristliches Schicksal.” Religious Cultures Network, “Theological Bridges in Literature and Philosophy.” German Studies Association (GSA), Washington D.C. (October 1-4, 2015).
“Biographie und Geschichte: Deutsches Judentum aus amerikanischer Sicht.” Lecture held at the German Summer School in Taos, New Mexico. (July, 2015)
"A Jewish-Christian Fate: On the Response to Modern Jewish Thought in Hans Ehrenberg's Heimkehr des Ketzers." Duke Workshop in German Jewish Studies. Duke University (Feb. 15-17, 2015).
"Why world languages don't matter, and other good news." Co-presented with Maureen Russo. Faculty Friday, Schreiner University (November 21, 2014).
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"Rosenzweig's Hegel und der Staat in Translation." International Rosenzweig Congress, "Nach dem Stern der Erlösung. Franz Rosenzweig in Frankfurt: Bildung – Sprachdenken – Übersetzung. Goethe Universität Frankfurt (October 26-29, 2014).
"Rosenzweig's Hölderlin: An die Deutschen." Duke Workshop in German Jewish Studies. Duke University (February 9-12, 2013).
"On The Origins of Rosenzweig's "Metaethics": Kant, Hegel and Goethe." International Rosenzweig Congress, "Gebet, Gesetz, Gebot: Love, Law, Life", University of Toronto (September, 2-4, 2012).
"Introducing The Star of Redemption: On the Origins of Rosenzweig's Metaethics." Western Jewish Studies Association, University of Oregon (March 25-26, 2012).
"Franz Rosenzweig between (German) Historian and (Jewish) Philosopher." Duke Workshop in German Jewish Studies. Duke University (March 19-22, 2011).
"Der kritische Sammler: Ein Berührungspunkt zwischen Nietzsche und Benjamin." 18th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, University of Berkeley, California (March 12-14, 2010).
"Biographie als Form: Hegel und der Staat und die Überreste des Historikers in Rosenzweigs Leben und Werk." International Rosenzweig Congress, Nous et les Autres; Paris, France (May 16-20, 2009).
"Rosenzweig und sein Buch Hegel und der Staat." Meeting of the International Rosenzweig Society; Hanover, Germany, "Grenzgänger―zwischen Naturwissenschaft, Philosophie und Theologie," (May, 2008).
"On the Art of Biography: Rosenzweig’s debt to Dilthey in Hegel and the State." New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Society; Austin, Texas (April, 2007). Abstract published in Vol. 30 of Southwest Philosophical Studies.
Attendee. "Telling the Past Now—Historiographies for the 21st Century." (Nov.22-24, 2007, Aarhus, Denmark). Post-graduate Workshop.
6 "Selbstgeschichte und Weltgeschichte: Erläuterungen eines Wendepunktes." Lecture held at the German Summer School in Taos, New Mexico (July, 2005).
"Walter Benjamin’s 'The Life of Students'." Student Philosophy Conference, University of New Mexico (April, 2004).
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Co-Organizer (with Juliane Schicker). Poetry without Borders. Carleton College (2017).
Moderator. Germanics II. Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA). Portland, Oregon (2015).
Commentator, Religious Cultures Network, “Religious Dis-Ease in Art and Literature.” German Studies Association, Washington D.C. (2015).
Co-Editor of "Sprach-Denken," Annual Newsletter of the North American Branch of the International Rosenzweig Society. (2008-2013)
Copy-editor for Konturen, Online Interdisciplinary Journal, University of Oregon. 2012-2013.
Co-organizer of "Germany and Exile: Post-World War II Migrations of Culture, Art and Thought." Graduate Student Conference, February 18-19, 2011, University of Oregon.
Moderator, various talks: "Who is this Schiller [now]?" International Schiller Conference at California State University, Long Beach (September 10-12, 2009).
AWARDS AND HONORS
2017 Research Grant - DAAD Re-invitation Program for Former Scholarship Holders. Ruhr-Universität Bochum / Universität Kassel. June - August, 2017. Project Title: "Thought and Redemption: On the Concept of Tragedy in Rosenzweig, Benjamin and Ehrenberg."
2017 Curricular Innovation Grant - Carleton College. Academic Civic Engagement (ACE), collaboration with Northfield High School.
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2015 Master of Ceremonies (including stage juggling), with Kirstin Simon. "These are the Days." Schreiner Choir Revue Show.
2012 Featured in the University of Oregon Alumni Newsletter Focus, Spring, 2012.
2011 Astrid M. Williams Dissertation Fellowship, for the Summer of 2012, University of Oregon.
2009 Roger Nicholls Graduate Student Scholarship, University of Oregon.
2009 Awarded a travel grant by the International Rosenzweig Society to travel to Paris, France and present at the International Rosenzweig Congress.
2008 Philip Hansen Fellowship in German and Scandinavian, University of Oregon.
2007-2008 Awarded an "Überbrückungsstipendium" (Bridge Grant) by Kassel Universität to pursue independent study on my prospective dissertation.
2002-2003 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) undergraduate grant; Ruprecht-Karls Universität, Heidelberg.
ADDITIONAL SCHOLARLY PROJECTS
Hans Ehrenberg. Die Heimkehr des Ketzers, co-edited and introduced with Francesco Barba. Forthcoming in "Hans Ehrenberg Studien," Harmut Spenner Verlag.
English translation from German. Franz Rosenzweig’s Hegel und der Staat. In Progress.
English translation from German. Hans Ehrenberg's Die Heimkehr des Ketzers. In Progress.
English translation from German. A.H. Kober's Das Wunder der tanzenden Bälle. Der Lebensroman Rastellis. In Progress.
8 Translated the pamphlet "A General Overview of the United States of America for Emigrants" (1833) for Richard Haw (CUNY) in anticipation of his forthcoming biography on the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge, John A. Röbling.
LANGUAGES
German (near-native fluency); Biblical and Modern Hebrew (advanced beginner); French (basic reading).
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
International Rosenzweig Society (IRG)
German Studies Association (GSA)
American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
Hans Ehrenberg Gesellschaft
REFERENCES
Jeffrey Librett, Professor, University of Oregon, Dept. of German and Scandinavian. Email: [email protected]; Phone: 541-346-0649
Martin Klebes, Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Dept. of German and Scandinavian. Email: [email protected]; Phone: 541-346-2818
Jeffrey L. High, Professor, California State University, Long Beach, Dept. of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures. Email: [email protected]; Phone: 562-985-4317
John B. Lyon, Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of German. Email: [email protected]; Phone: 412-624-5839
9 Markus Muller, Associate Professor, California State University, Long Beach, Dept. of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures. Email: [email protected]; Phone: 562-985-2670
Laura Goering, Professor, Carleton College, Dept. of German and Russian. Email: [email protected]; Phone: 507-222-4125
Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, em. Prof. Dr., Fasangartengasse, 101/2/7, A- 1130 Wien, Austria. Email: [email protected]
Kenneth Calhoon, Professor, University of Oregon, Dept. of German and Scandinavian; Dept. of Comparative Literature. Email: [email protected]; Phone: 541-346-4060
Katja Schroeter, Professor, University of New Mexico, Dept. of Languages and Literatures. Email: [email protected]; Phone: 505-277-4771
William Woods, Professor, Schreiner University, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts. Email: [email protected]; Phone: 830-792-7425.
John McCole, Professor, University of Oregon, Dept. of History. Email: [email protected]; Phone: 541-346-5906
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