Steven Huff

  • Professor of German

Areas of Study

Education

  • BA, Arizona State University, 1980
  • MA, Arizona State University, 1982
  • MA, Princeton University, 1984
  • PhD, Princeton University, 1987

  • Baroque
  • Goethezeit
  • Romanticism
  • The Interrelations of Music and Literature

  • Heinrich von Kleist's Poetics of Passivity. Rochester: Camden House, 2009
  • “Es ist seit Rahel uns erlaubt, Gedanken zu haben.”  Essays in Honor of Heidi Thomann Tewarson. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012
  • Articles on:
    • Kleist
    • Goethe
    • The German Opera Libretto
    • Baroque Drama
    • Czech Resistance Literature

  • Introductory and Intermediate German
  • Survey of German Literature from Enlightenment to Romanticism 
  • The German Opera Libretto -Goethe, Mozart and Weimar Court Theater 
  • Schubert Lieder (with David Breitman in the Conservatory) 
  • Kleist 
  • Aspects of Drama 
  • Contemporary German Poetry 
  • Romanticism

Spring 2025

Elementary German — GERM 101

Heinrich von Kleist: The Psychology of Comedy and Despair — GERM 422

Fall 2025

Elementary German — GERM 102

Intermediate German — GERM 203

German Literature: Young Germany to Modernism — GERM 317

Notes

Steven Huff Book Review Published

September 18, 2024

Professor of German Steven Huff has published a review of Ulrich Klingmann, “Kleines Buch zu Goethes Iphigenie auf Tauris. Zum Lesen—Zum Spielen,” in Goethe Yearbook. It notes that jazz musicians Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter recently composed and performed an Iphigenia opera.

Steven Huff Book Chapter Published

November 29, 2023

Professor of German Steven Huff has recently published a book chapter titled "Amnesia, Chaos, Trauma: Kleist's Memory Games" in Memory in German Romanticism: Imagination, Image, Reception. Ed. Christopher R. Clason et al. London: Routledge, 2023. Chap. 1, 23-47.

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