Rudiger Campe
Alfred C. and Martha F. Mohr Professor of German Languages and Literatures
In the fall of 2016, Rudiger Campe is a fellow at the IFK in Vienna as Director’s Invitee where he will be working towards a book on the “novel of the institution.” In the spring 2017, he is to teach a course on the work of Georg Büchner in the German-French context and a philosophy section in Directed Studies. In addition, he is, with Francesco Casetti and Craig Buckley, con-convener of the Sawyer Seminar The Excesssive Screen to be launched in the spring 2017.
Selected recent Academic Awards and Achievements:
- 2016 Fellow, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna
- 2014 Presentation of the Luebeck Lecture at the Ohio State University
- 2013 Presentation of the Szondi-Lecture, FU Berlin
- 2012-2014 Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center
- 2011 Humboldt Research Award
Positions:
- 2016- Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University
- 2007- Professor of German, Yale University
- 2001-2007 Professor of German, Johns Hopkins University
Latest Books and Co-Edited Volumes:
- Baumgarten-Studien. Zur Genealogie der Ästhetik, with Anselm Haverkamp & Christoph Menke (August Verlag 2014)
- Re-Thinking Emotion. Exteriority and Interiority, co-edited with Julia Weber (DeGruyter 2014)
- The Game of Probability. Literature and Calculation from Pascal to Kleist, transl. Ellwood Wiggins (Stanford, 2012).
- Hans Blumenberg, For Example, co-edited with Kirk Wetters (Yale) and Paul Fleming (Cornell) for Telos (2012).
- Penthesileas Versprechen. Examplarische Studien über die literarische Referenz (Rombach Verlag, 2008).
Latest Article Publications:
- „Grundlagen und Funktion des Romans“: Heimito von Doderer and the Theory of the Novel, in E. Geulen (Ed.), Doderers „Dämonen“-Roman (Berlin, 2016).
- Baumgartens Ästhetik: Metaphysik und techne, Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Kunst (2016).
- Vor Augen Stellen. Über den Rahmen rhetorischer Bildgebung, in H. Lethen, L. Jäger, A. Koschorke (Eds.), Zum Problem der Evidenz in den Kulturwissenschaften. Ein Reader (2015, revised reprint).
- Verhaltenslehre der Gelegenheiten oder Okkasionalismus? Zu einem Thema zwischen Barock und Romantik, Revue. Magazine for the Next Society (2015, Festschrift Dirk Baecker).
- Rhetoric’s Flirtation with Literature. From Gorgias to Aristotle: The Epideictic Genre. In D. Hoffmann-Schwartz, B. N. Nagel, L. S. Stone (Ed.): Flirtations. Rhetoric and Aesthetics this Side of Seduction (Fordham, 2015), 37-50.
Latest Papers, Presentations, Reader’s Reports and Reviews:
- July 2016. Flucht und Fürsprache in Aischylos‘ „Eumeniden.“ Lecture, University of Konstanz
- May 2016. Die Literatur und die Humanities: Vico, Dilthey, Foucault. Lecture, FU Berlin
- March 2016. What it has been we wanted to know. Husserl’s “Crisis,” and the Future and Beginnings of Deconstructing the Humanities, Lecture, ACLA, Harvard
- March 2016. Literature and the Humanities: Vico, Dilthey, Foucault. Lecture Rice University
- July 2015. Work on the ‚Scene of Writing‘: Old and New, Workshop Unversity of Erfurt.
complete list of publications, July 2014 (PDF)