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: Peter Handke’s Landscape Aesthetics’ (Ecopoetics, Berkeley)

10/12 ‘Geographic Materialism and the Humanities’ (GSA, Milwaukee)

1/12 ‘The Bestiary, Imagination, Mourning’ (MLA, Seattle)

7/11 ‘The Zötl Effect: The Bestiary and Modern Imagination’ (ASLE, Bloominton)

9/10 ‘Kerygma and Wilderness in the Poetry of Hölderlin and Hopkins’ (GSA, Oakland)

8/10 ‘Naturgeschichte der Zerstörung: ein Motiv und seine Methode in Werk W.G. Sebalds’ (XII. Internationaler Germanistenkongress, Warsaw)

3/09 ‘Bare life and the Picaresque Voice in Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird’ (ACLA Harvard)

6/08 ‘Intermediality in Kluge’s fiction’ (Intermediality in German Cultural Discourse, Bangor)

7/07 ‘Monetary Concepts in Nietzsche and Stifter’ (BCLA London)

4/07 ‘The Topography of Memory in Alexander Kluge’s Die Chronik der Gefühle’ (ACLA Puebla, Mexico)

6/06 ‘Benjamin and Berlin 1936’ (Responses to Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s In Praise of Athletic Beauty, Pembroke College, Cambridge)

12/05 ‘Multilingualism and the Re-writing of European History in W.G. Sebald’ (MLA Washington/DC)

9/05 ‘Circulation and the Picaresque’ (DFG, Würzburg)

4/05 ‘Commerce and the Notion of Trust in Melville’ (Literature, philosophy, and Commerce 1750-1900, Stanford)

3/05 ‘Excess and Suspension of Experience in Modern Picaresque Fiction’ (ACLA Pennsylvania State University)

3/04 ‘Ecology as Blind Spot of Contemporary Literary Culture’ (Positioning Ecocriticism, Münster)

9/03 ‘Photography as Suspension of Oblivion in Sebald’ (Visual Knowledges, Edinburgh)

8/03 ‘The Picaresque and the Grotesque’ (Clowns, Fools and Picaros – Popular Forms in Literature, Drama and Film, Belfast)

4/03 ‘Images in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and the Kindertransport experience’ (Leo Baeck Conference on the Kindertransport, Brighton)

Teaching Experience______

The Ohio State University | Assistant/Associate Professor of German (since 2007)

 General Education Classes  Language classes at all levels (special focus: theory and practice of translation)  Introductory and advanced seminars on German and European literature  Introductory seminars on modern German and European culture and history  Advanced German culture seminars (special foci: environmental humanities; contemporary visual culture; cultural memory)  Graduate seminars: The German Picaresque Novel and its European Contexts W.G. Sebald: German Texts, European Contexts, Global Reception Literature and Money: Negotiating Public and Private Spheres Cult Fiction: Identification and Literature Memory Cultures in Contemporary Germany Nature, Land-Scape, Culture: Concepts of Space in German Intellectual Culture Vision and Power: A Critique of Modernity

Goldsmiths, University of London | Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature (2006-7)

 Introductory seminars on American literature  Introductory seminars on European modernism  Lectures on the American Renaissance; German modernism; psychoanalysis and literature

University of Cambridge | Lektor & Director of Studies in German, Pembroke College (2005-6)

 German language classes at all levels (listening and reading comprehension, essay composition, conversation, translation)  Administrative and pastoral duties

University of Cambridge | Teaching Assistant (2003-5)

 Introductory seminars: German Key Texts 1800-2000; American Key Texts since 1830  Advanced seminars: German Literature, Thought and History since 1910; German Literature, Thought and History from 1815 to 1914  Classic German poetry for students of English

University of Cambridge | Certificate in Humanities Computing for Languages (Computer-Aided Language Learning, CALL) (2002-3)

Univerzita Karlova, Prague | Lecturer in German (2001-2)

 Proseminar on Frühromantik  Hauptseminar on Intertextuality and Intermediality  Reading group on social and literary theory

Universität Konstanz | Teaching Assistant (1999-2001)

 Tutorials on classic German literature  Tutorials on methods of research, academic writing and presentation skills

Service to the Department______

PhD Dissertation Advisor Marcus Breyer (2013- ) Sarah Larson (2014- )

PhD Committee Member Charles Vannette (2011), Associate Professor at Ferris State University, since 2011 Thomas Stefaniuk (2012), Assistant Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University, since 2012 Jesse Wood (2012), Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, since 2013 Jennifer Magro-Algarotti (2012), Assistant Professor, George Mason University, since 2014 Simon Loesch, ABD Seth Josephson, ABD

German Graduate Student Association, faculty advisor, OSU, 2009-10; 2013-14 Horizont. German undergraduate newspaper, The Ohio State University, 2013-14 Graduate Advisory Committee, OSU, 2008-present Undergraduate Advisory Committee, 2012-present Honors Advisor, 2009-2013 Minor Advisor, 2008-2013 Committee work, e.g. lecture committee, scheduling committee, awards committee

Service to the University______

Since autumn 2012 Center for Ethics and Human Values | Animal Worlds in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities

http://ethicsandhumanvalues.osu.edu/

Since autumn 2010 OSU, College of Arts and Sciences | Interdisciplinary Initiative ‘Sustainability’

Development of practical, research and teaching initiatives designed to foster environmental citizenship at the university and beyond; coordination of course offerings on environmental topics in the humanities; planning of lecture series on ‘The Humanities and Sustainability’ at the School of Environment and Natural Resources

2008-11, Ohio State University | Research cluster ‘Public Sphere and Modern Social Imaginaries’

Interdisciplinary research group (social sciences and humanities): lecture series, workshops, fundraising; since September 2009 constituted as a collaborative research group at the Humanities Institute, OSU

Service to the Profession______

Editorial Reviews: Gegenwartsliteratur; Studies in the Novel; Germanic Review; Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften

2011-14 Alexander von Humboldt Research Network | Environmental Humanities

http://environmental-humanities-network.org/

July 2007, London | ‘Folly’ (The British Comparative Literature Association XI International Conference)

International and interdisciplinary conference with 150 delegates (co-organized with two colleagues)

August 2005, Cambridge | ‘Configurations of the Third 1800 to the present’

International and interdisciplinary conference with ca. 100 delegates (co-organized with Ian Cooper)

Professional Affiliations______

 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)  Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)  German Studies Association (GSA)  Modern Language Association (MLA)

Language Skills______

 German (native)  English (near-native)  Portuguese (fluent)  Spanish (fluent)  French (working knowledge)  Ancient Greek (reading knowledge)  Latin (reading knowledge)