Tag Archives: Christine Lehleiter

Tobias Hof

Associate Professor Contact info tobias.hof@utoronto.ca Office University of Toronto Odette Hall 326 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 3L5 Secretary: 416-926-2324 Office Hours tba Classes 2024 – 2025 GER310H1F: Contemporary German Culture & Media HIS330H1F: Germany from Frederick the great to the First World War (1740–1918) Background Tobias Hof is Privatdozent for Modern History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and was the Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair for German and European Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy in the academic year 2022/2023. He joined the Department of Germanic Languages & Literature and the Department of History at the University of Toronto as the DAAD Associate Guest Professor in the fall of 2024. His research focuses on the history of terrorism and counterterrorism as well as the history of violence, fascism, and humanitarianism. He is the author of Staat und Terrorismus in Italien 1969-1982 (Oldenbourg, 2011), Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender (University of Toronto Press, 2021) and Geschichte des Terrorismus von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (UTB, 2022) as well as many journal articles and book chapters on his research interests. He also contributes to the online journal Fair Observer. Tobias Hof has taught at the ... Read More »

Christine Lehleiter

Associate Professor of German Contact info christine.lehleiter@utoronto.ca Office University of Toronto Odette Hall 318 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 3L5 Phone 416-926-2322 Secretary: 416-926-2324 Office Hours tba Classes 2021 – 2022 GER1540HS Revolutions GER270HS Money & Economy Background Ph.D. Indiana University 2007 Selected Publications Books: Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2014. 323 pages. Finalist, Novalis-Preis 2016 Reviews: Jocelyn Holland in Monatshefte 108.2 (2016): 304-305 Leif Weatherby in German Studies Review 40.1 (2017): 190-192 Stefani Engelstein in Goethe Yearbook 24 (2017): 313-315 Gabriel Trop in Eighteenth-Century Studies 51.3 (2018): 385-386 Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain (ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. 368 pages. The volume is available on Knowledge Unlatched Reviews: Steven Howe in European Romantic Review 28.4 (2017): 495-500 Christopher R. Clason in Goethe Yearbook 25 (2018): 305-306 Yevgenya Strakowsky in Monatshefte 110.1 (Spring 2018): 122-124 Joseph O’Neil in University of Toronto Quarterly 87.3 (Summer 2018): 339-341 Special Journal Issues: Reading Minds: German Studies and the Neurohumanities. Special issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 58.1 (February 2022). Articles and Book Chapters: “Reading Minds.“ Introduction to Reading Minds: German Studies and the Neurohumanities. ... Read More »

German Studies Undergraduate Colloquium

March 29, 2014. Munk School of Global Affairs, Room 208N. Organized by Ulrike Kugler (Goethe-Institut Toronto), Christine Lehleiter (University Toronto) and Barbara Schmenk (University Waterloo). The event is co-sponsored by CERES. View the Read More »