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Amir Eshel is Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Chair of Graduate Studies, German Studies; and, since 2005 the Director of The Europe Center at Stanford Universityâ??s Freeman Sopgli Institute for International Studies. His research focuses on the contemporary novel, twentieth century German culture, German-Jewish history and culture, and modern Hebrew literature. He is interested in the literary and cultural imagination as it addresses modernityâ??s traumatic past for its contemporary philosophical, political and ethical implications. Currently, Amir Eshel working on a new project that examines poetry, prose and narratives across media as they raise ethical dilemmas. At Stanford, he has taught courses on memory and history, modern poetry, narrative and ethics, German Romanticism, postwar German literature and culture, the contemporary novel, German Jewish literature, and the modern Hebrew novel. Currently teaching
DLCL 189A: Honors Thesis Seminar
(Autumn)
COMPLIT 387: From the Ruins: Art, Literature, and Thought ca. 1945 and Beyond (Winter) GERMAN 213A: From the Ruins: Art, Literature, and Thought ca. 1945 and Beyond (Winter) DLCL 229: The Contemporary (Winter, Spring) ARTHIST 413A: From the Ruins: Art, Literature, and Thought ca. 1945 and Beyond (Winter) COMPLIT 187: From the Ruins: Art, Literature, and Thought ca. 1945 and Beyond (Winter) COMPLIT 199: Senior Seminar (Winter) ARTHIST 213A: From the Ruins: Art, Literature, and Thought ca. 1945 and Beyond (Winter) COMPLIT 379: Literature and the Practice of Freedom (Spring) GERMAN 379: Literature and the Practice of Freedom (Spring) COMPLIT 282: Modern Jewish Thought - Voices of Tradition and Transformation (Spring) GERMAN 279: Literature and the Practice of Freedom (Spring) ENGLISH 379A: Literature and the Practice of Freedom (Spring) ENGLISH 279A: Literature and the Practice of Freedom (Spring) JEWISHST 283: Modern Jewish Thought - Voices of Tradition and Transformation (Spring) COMPLIT 279: Literature and the Practice of Freedom (Spring) |