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Bernhard Malkmus BERNHARD MALKMUS Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures The Ohio State University tel #1 614 447 6985 1775 College Road, 498 Hagerty Hall fax #1 614 292 8510 Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A e-mail [email protected] Academic Positions____________________________________________________________ 2013 – present Associate Professor of German at the Ohio State University (tenured) Affiliated Associate Professor of Comparative Studies 2007 – 2013 Assistant Professor of German at the Ohio State University (tenure-track) 2006 – 07 Postdoctoral Fellow of Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London 2005 – 06 Lektor and Director of Studies in German at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge 2001 – 02 Lecturer of German literature at the Charles University, Prague Education____________________________________________________________________ 2002 – 06 PhD in German and comparative literature University of Cambridge spring 2002 visiting fellow in comparative literature Harvard University 1997 – 2000 M.A. in literature, linguistics, and pedagogy Universität Konstanz 1996 – 97 visiting student University of Cambridge 1994 – 96 B.A. (equivalent) in modern languages Universität Würzburg 1992 Abitur (Humanistisches Gymnasium) Lohr am Main Fellowships and Awards _______________________________________________________ Fellowships Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich (winter 2015-6) DAAD Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bamberg (summer 2015) Research Fellow at Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna (IFK) (winter 2014-5) Kurt Hahn Trust Honorary Fellowship (2002-3) Visiting Fellow at Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University (spring semester 2002) Awards Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring, College of Arts & Sciences, Ohio State University (2012) Travel grants from DFG (2005), ACLA (2005), Tiarks Trust, Cambridge (2005, 2006), MLA (2005), St. John’s College, Cambridge (2003, 2004, 2005), Cambridge European Trust (2003) Scholarships ‘Chile Project’ scholarship for research in Chile on exile literature (summer 2006) Benefactors’ Scholarship, St. John’s College, Cambridge (2002-5) Arts and Humanities Research Board PhD grant (2002-5) Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Scholarship) (1995-2000) Publications___________________________________________________________________ Monograph The German Pícaro and Modernity: Between Underdog and Shape-Shifter. New York: Continuum 2011. (paperback 2014) Reviews: Arcadia, Choice, German Quarterly, Monatshefte, Pacific Coast Philology, Seminar Edited books and journal issues The Challenge of Ecology to the Humanities: Posthumanism or Humanism?, co-edited with Heather Sullivan. New German Critique, special issue 115/2 (2016). Dialectic and Paradox: Configurations of the Third in Modernity, co-edited with Ian Cooper. Oxford: Lang 2013. Third Agents: Secret Protagonists of the Modern Imagination, co-edited with Ian Cooper and Ekkehard Knörer. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press 2008. Peer-reviewed journal articles (under review) ‘Father Trouble: Adam and Aeneas in Saul Bellow’s Adventures of Augie March’. (Amerikastudien/American Studies) (forthcoming) ‘Man in the Anthropocene: Max Frisch’s Environmental History’. (PMLA, 2017) ‘The Challenge of Ecology to the Humanities: An Introduction’. (with H. Sullivan) New German Critique, special issue 115/2 (2016), i-xvi. ‘Die Angst vor dem Anthropozän, oder Naturgeschichten vom Fisch’. Scheidewege. Jahrbuch für skeptisches Denken 45 (2015), 183-200. ‘The Pícaro as Homo Sacer: Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird’. Shofar 30/4 (2012), 80-99. ‘Das Naturtheater des W.G. Sebald: die ökologischen Aporien eines poeta doctus’. Gegenwartsliteratur 10 (2011), 210-33. ‘The Birth of the Pícaro out of the Spirit of Self-Reliance: Herman Melville’s Confidence-Man’. Amerikastudien/American Studies 54/4 (2009), 603-20. ‘The Topography of Memory in Alexander Kluge’s Fiction’. New German Critique 107/3 (2009), 231-52. ‘Erinnerungskult und Vergessensethos: Die Wahlverwandtschaften’. Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 58/3 (2008), 279-98. Entries in Handbooks (in press) ‘Sceneries in Robert Walser’. In Samuel Frederick and Valerie Hefernan (eds.): A Companion to Robert Walser. Evanston: Northwestern University Press 2016. ‘Jakob von Gunten’. In Lucas Marco Gisi (ed.): Robert Walser Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler 2015, 44-57. Book chapters (forthcoming) ‘Diffuse Dwelling: Landscape in Graham Swift and W.G. Sebald’. In Sabine Wilke (ed.): Readings in the Anthropocene: The Environmental Humanities, German Studies, and Beyond. (in press) ‘Senses of Slovenia: Peter Handke, Stanley Cavell, and the Environmental Ethics of Repetition’. In Caroline Schaumann and Heather Sullivan (eds.): Anthropocene: Readings in German Literature. London: Palgrave 2016. ‘Triadic Concepts in the Humanities and Social Sciences. An Introduction’ (with I. Cooper). In Cooper and Malkmus (eds): Dialectic and Paradox. Configurations of the Third in Modernity. Oxford: Lang 2013, 1-21. ‘Vom Hoch- und Tiefstapeln: Der Pícaro zwischen den Systemen der Moderne’. In Thomas Bedorf, Joachim Fischer, and Gesa Lindemann (eds): Theorien des Dritten. Innovationen in Soziologie und Sozialphilosophie. Munich: Fink 2010, 289-315. ‘“The Third” and Modernity’ (with I. Cooper). In Cooper, Knörer, and Malkmus (eds): Third Agents. Secret Protagonists of the Modern Imagination. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press 2008, 1-11. ‘The Picaresque Hero and Economies of Circulation’. In Christoph Ehland and Robert Fajen (eds): The Paradigm of the Picaresque. Heidelberg: Winter 2007, 179-200. ‘Picaresque Narratology: Lazarillo de Tormes and Edgar Hilsenrath’s Der Nazi und der Friseur’. In David Robb (ed.): Popular Forms in Literature, Drama and Film. Amsterdam: Rodopi 2007, 211-29. ‘Ökologie als blinder Fleck der Literatur- und Kulturtheorie’. In S. Mayer and C. Gersdorf (eds): Natur – Kultur – Text. Beiträge zu Ökologie und Literaturwissenschaft. Heidelberg: Winter 2005, 53-77. ‘“All of them Signs and Characters from the Type-Case of Forgotten Things” – Intermedia Configurations of History in W.G. Sebald’. In Silke Arnold-de Simine (ed.): Memory Traces: 1989 and the Question of German Cultural Identity. Oxford: Lang 2005, 211-44. Reviews ‘Aleida Assmann: Ist die Zeit aus den Fugen? Aufstieg und Fall des Zeitregimes der Moderne’. Modern Language Review 110/4 (2015), 1109-10. ‘Robert Macfarlane: The Old Ways’. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE) 2/20 (2013), 434-5. ‘Sean Ireton and Caroline Schaumann: Heights of Reflection. Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century’. German Quarterly 1/86 (2013), 230-1. ‘Ursula Heise: Nach der Natur. Das Artensterben und die moderne Kultur’. Monatshefte 2/104 (2012), 263-5. ‘Joachim Radkau: Die Ära der Ökologie. Eine Weltgeschichte’. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE) 1/19 (2012). ‘Volker Wehdeking: Medienkonstellationen. Literatur und Film im Kontext von Moderne und Postmoderne’. Monatshefte 3/102 (2010), 438-40. Interviews ‘From Ethics to Justice: The Role of the Triad in Modern Social Imagination. A Conversation with Zygmunt Bauman’. In Cooper and Malkmus (eds): Dialectic and Paradox. Configurations of the Third in Modernity. Oxford: Lang 2012, 25-36. ‘“Frisch von der Leber weg” – Edgar Hilsenrath wird 85: Ein Erinnerungsgespräch’. German Life and Letters 64/2 (2011), 317-25. Translations ‘Peter Balakian: Armenia 2015’, in Neue Rundschau 2/126 (2015), 90-104. ‘W.S. Merwin: Neun Gedichte’, in Neue Rundschau 4/123 (2012). Journalism Articles on cultural and social topics and book reviews in Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; Times Literary Supplement, Neue Rundschau, Akzente; TRANS (Architekturmagazin ETH Zürich) Invited Lectures_______________________________________________________________ 11/15 ‘Diffuse Dwelling: the Anthroposcenic Fenlands’ (Rachel Carson Center, Munich) 4/15 ‘Armenien in der deutschsprachigen Literatur’ (Goethe Institut, Tbilissi–Yerevan) 4/15 ‘Kulturelles Gedächtnis und literarische Zeugenschaft: Franz Werfels Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh’ (Stifter-Gesellschaft, Munich) 3/15 ‘Arachnophilia: Metamorphosis, Ecology, and Literature’ (Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen) 12/14 ‘Man in the Anthropocene: Max Frisch’s Environmental History’ (ELTE Budapest) 11/14 ‘The Topicality of Self-Overcoming in Timothy Morton’ (University of Vienna) 10/14 ‘Die Angst vor dem Anthropozän’ (IFK, Vienna) 6/14 ‘Man in the Anthropocene: Max Frisch’s Eschatological Meteorology’ (LMU Munich) 10/13 ‘Die jüngere Schwester der hebräischen Erde: Armenien und sein Schicksal im Werk von Franz Werfel und Edgar Hilsenrath’ (Evangelische Akademie Berlin) 9/12 (keynote) ‘Geography and Landscape Stimmung’ (Humboldt Environmental Humanities Network, Seattle) 7/09 ‘Vom Hoch- und Tiefstapeln: Der Pícaro in den Systemen der Moderne’ (Peter-Szondi- Institut, Freie Universität Berlin) 5/06 ‘Picaresque Money’ (The Sylvia Naish lecture, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London) Conference Papers____________________________________________________________ 1/14 ‘Alexander von Humboldt’s Shadow in César Aira’s Pampas Paintings’ (VII International Humboldt Conference, Santiago de Chile) 6/13 ‘The Natural History of Fish, or Anthropocene Angst’ (Humboldt Environmental Humanities Network, Rachel Carson Center, Munich) 2/13 ‘Stimmungslandschaft:
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