Guest lecture, February 25: Professor Rolf Goebel: Auditory Anxieties: The Sounds of German Literary Modernism

February 25, 2016, 4:00 p.m., Odette Hall 323

Professor ROLF J. GOEBEL, Ph. D., is Distinguished Professor of German and Chair of the Dept. of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Among his publications are: Kritik und Revision: Kafkas Rezeption mythologischer, biblischer und historischer Traditionen (Critique and Revision: Kafka’s Reception of Mythological, Biblical, and Historical Traditions,1986), Constructing China: Kafka’s Orientalist Discourse (1997), and Benjamin heute: Großstadtdiskurs, Postkolonialität und Flanerie zwischen den Kulturen (Benjamin Today: Urban Discourse, Postcoloniality, and Flânerie between Cultures, 2001). He is also a co-author of A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia (2005) and has edited A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin (2009). His current research focuses on the intersections of sound/music, literary aesthetics, and philosophy.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies.

If you have any accommodation needs, please e-mail german@chass.utoronto.ca five business days prior to the event, and we will do our best to assist you.