LAUREN K. WOLFE CURRICULUM VITAE Department of Comparative Literature │ New York University 19 University Place │ New York, New York 10003 [email protected] │ (312) 945 9867 EDUCATION 2013–present New York University: PhD candidate, Department of Comparative Literature Disseration committee: Alys George (NYU, chair), Bernard Banoun (Sorbonne Université), Mikhail Iampolski (NYU) Dissertation field: 20th century Austrian literature, translation theory and method 2011–2012 University of Illinois Center for Translation Studies & Dalkey Archive Press: Certificate in Applied Literary Translation Supervisors: Jeremy M. Davies (Dalkey Archive, then Senior Editor), Elizabeth Lowe (U of I, emeritus) 2006–2008 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago: MFA in Creative Writing Thesis advisers: Amy England, Beth Nugent Thesis: A Study in the Activity of Being Alone (prose/poetry) 1997–2001 Grinnell College: BA in German Cultural Studies Thesis advisers: Sigmund Barber (emeritus), Daniel Reynolds Thesis: The Shape of Political Transformation: Fin-de-siècle Architectural Planning in Berlin and Vienna PUBLICATIONS: LITERARY TRANSLATIONS Werner Kofler’s Treblinka Café (Tanzcafé Treblinka [2001]), Barricade—A Journal of Anti-Fascism and Translation 1 (Spring 2018) Werner Kofler’s At the Writing Desk (Am Schreibtisch [1988]), Dalkey Archive Press 2016 Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s A Letter (Ein Brief [1902]), Review of Contemporary Fiction—Translations in Progress XXXIII, no. 2 (Fall 2014) Modern and Contemporary Swiss Poetry: An Anthology, ed. Luzius Keller, translations from German and Swiss German in collaboration with Reinhard Mayer, Dalkey Archive Press 2012 PUBLICATIONS: SCHOLARLY & PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSLATIONS Ernst Kapp’s Elements of a Philosophy of Technology: On the Evolutionary History of Culture (Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Technik [1877]), University of Minnesota Press 2018 Excerpts of the above published in Grey Room 72 (Summer 2018) Essays by Siegfried Zielinski, in Diverse Genealogies, an anthology of media-archaeological writings forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press Henning Schmidgen’s “Successful Paranoia: Friedrich Kittler, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and the History of Science,” Theory, Culture & Society OnlineFirst (August 2018) Henning Schmidgen’s “Cybernetic Times: Stroud, Libet and Wiener’s Brain Clock Hypothesis,” forthcoming in a special issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas CONFERENCE TALKS & SEMINARS Panelist, Summer School at the Université de Montréal. Course: Queer Studies: genre et traduction; session: “Théories de la traduction” (Montreal 2018) Presenter, German Studies Association Annual Conference. Panel: Corpus Humanum: Human Matter on the Margins of the Humanities; paper: “True Interpretation Encompasses the Outer Surface of Things: On Paul Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio” (San Diego 2016) Panel organizer & presenter, NYU Comparative Literature Graduate Student Colloquim Series. Panel: The Situation in Translation; presentation: “Out of Date” (New York 2014) GRANTS & STIPENDIA 2019 / 2017 Provost’s Global Research Initiative Grant, New York University 2013–2018 MacCracken Fellowship, New York University 2016 / 2015 Summer Research Grants, New York University SELECT EDITORIAL WORK 2017–present Barricade—A Journal of Anti-Fascism and Translation Published by Cicada Press, New York City Founding editorial collective member 2014–2015 Shift: Graduate Student Journal of Visual and Material Culture Hosted by CUNY Graduate Center, NYU & Queens University Editorial staff member 2008/2005/2002 The Chicago International Film Festival Subsidiary of Cinema/Chicago Publications manager, contributing writer SELECT COURSES TAUGHT Summer 2019 Steal This Text! Readings in “Uncreative Writing” Instructor, author of the course, New York University, Department of Comparative Literature Syllabus under review Fall 2018 The Long History of Cybernetics Teaching Assistant, New York University, Core Curriculum Course author: Prof. Leif Weatherby Summer 2018 The Trial of OJ Simpson: Race, Citizenship & Justice from the Oresteia and Beyond Instructor, author of the course, New York University, Department of Comparative Literature Spring 2018 Cultures & Contexts: Germany Teaching Assistant, New York University, Core Curriculum Course author: Prof. Elisabeth Strowick Fall 2016 Vision: Between Nature and Culture Teaching Assistant, New York University, Core Curriculum Course author: Prof. Mikhail Iampolski Fall 2007 Sick: The Body Philosophical Instructor, author of the course, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, First Year Writing Seminar LANGUAGES English: native German: reading fluency, near spoken fluency French & Spanish: reading knowledge Spanish: reading knowledge .