Thomas M. Wild

Visiting Assistant Professor

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Education

Ph.D. (Dr. Phil.) German Language Literature, University of Munich, 2005
M.A. (Diplom) in Political Science and German Language and Literature, Free University of Berlin, 2000
B.A. (Vordiplom) in Political Science, Free Universtiy of Berlin, 1996

Areas of special interest

German (and European) Literature, History, Culture and Philosophy in the 19th and 20th century, Literature and German History after 1945, Hannah Arendt, Uwe Johnson, Thomas Brasch, Contemporary German Poetry, Drama and Prose after 1989, Literary Criticism, Poetic and Literary Theory, Translation, and Edition.

Publications

Books

Hannah Arendt in Deutschland. Begegnungen mit Schriftstellern nach dem Traditionsbruch

            Matthes und Seitz: Berlin 2007 (forthcoming).

Hannah Arendt. BasisBiographie
            Suhrkamp Verlag: Frankfurt am Main 2006.

Hannah Arendt. Leben – Werk – Wirkung
            Hoffmann und Campe Hörbuchverlag, Hamburg 2006.

Thomas Brasch. Liebesgedichte
            Suhrkamp Verlag: Frankfurt am Main: 2007.
Editor and epilogue.

Hannah Arendt – TEXT+KRITIK, Heft 166/167
edition text + kritik: München, 2005. Editor (with Dr. Wolfgang Heuer) and chapter on Arendt and Contemporary German Literature.

Hannah Arendt – Uwe Johnson. Briefwechsel 1967 – 1975.
Suhrkamp Verlag: Frankfurt am Main 2004.
Editor (with Dr. Eberhard Fahlke) and epilogue.

Uwe Johnson – Befreundungen. Gespräche, Dokumente, Essays.
kontext Verlag: Berlin 2002.
Editor (with Roland Berbig, Thomas Herold and Gesine Treptow)

Various book chapters, articles, and book reviews in academic journals and major German newspapers (e.g. Süddeutsche Zeitung) on Ilse Aichinger, John Barth, Reinhard Baumgart, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Jim Crace, Tankred Dorst, Durs Grünbein, Christph Hein, Eugenio Montale, Jose Saramago and others.

Courses taught at Oberlin

  • Berlin in Literature and Film
  • Contemporary German Literature after 1989
  • Intermediate German
  • Elementary German

Contact Information

thomas.wild@oberlin.edu

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