John Zilcosky

  • Chair
  • Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature
  • PhD, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, 1998

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    Recent Publications (2002-present; complete publication list; c.v.):

    Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey (ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

    Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing . New York: Palgrave, 2003; paperback edition, 2004.

    “Learning How to Get Lost: Goethe in Italy.” In Cosmopolitanism and Colonialism. Ed. John K. Noyes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Forthcoming (27 pp. ms.) .

    “Uncanny Encounters: Adventure Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Ethnographic Exhibitions.” In Literature and Science / Literatur und Wissenschaft. Ed. Monika Schmitz-Emans and Manfred Schmeling. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008. 139-157.

    “Writing Travel.” Introduction to Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey. Ed. John Zilcosky. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 1-22.

    “Inventing Reception: Genius and Judgement in Kant’s Critique of Judgement.” Neohelicon XXXIV (2007) 1: 93-99.

    “ Von Zuckerbaronen und Landvermessern: Koloniale Visionen in Schaffsteins Grüne Bändchen und Kafkas Das Schloss .” In Kafkas Institutionen. Ed. Arne Höcker and Oliver Simons. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2007. 119-144.

    “Verirrt und wieder zurechtgefunden: Orientierungslosigkeit und Nostalgie in Sebalds ‘Austerlitz.’” Text+Kritik (Sonderband 2006): 120-30.

    “Lost and Found: Disorientation, Nostalgia, and Holocaust Melodrama in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz.” Modern Language Notes (MLN) 121.3 (April 2006): 679-98.

    “Poetry after Auschwitz?: Celan and Adorno Revisited.” Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 79.4 (December 2005): 670-91.

    “Modern Monuments: Nietzsche, T.S. Eliot, and the Problem of History.” Journal of Modern Literature 29.1 (Fall 2005): 21-33.

    “The Writer as Nomad?: The Art of Getting Lost.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 6 (2004): 229-41.

    “Sebald’s Uncanny Travels.” In W.G. Sebald: A Critical Companion. Ed. Jonathan Long and Anne Whitehead. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2004. 102-20.

    “Wildes Reisen: Kolonialer Sadismus und Masochismus in Kafkas ‘Strafkolonie.’” Weimarer Beiträge 50.1 (January 2004): 33-54.

    “Lost in America.” The New Republic 229 (29 September 2003): 38-41.

    “The Ends of the Exotic: Franz Kafka, Modernist Inwardness, and the Travel Novel, Richard and Samuel.” In La Porta D’Oriente: Viaggi e Poesia. Ed. Paola Mildonian, Maria Alzira Seixo, Lourdes Câncio Martins. Lisbon: Edições Cosmos, 2002. 165-76.

    “Surveying the Castle: Kafka’s Colonial Visions.” In A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka. Ed. James Rolleston. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002. 281-324.

    “Kafka’s Remains.” Lost in the Archives. Ed. Rebecca Comay. Toronto: Alphabet City Media, 2002. 630-43.

    John Zilcosky
    John Zilcosky

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