Stephan Schindler
Professor of German
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Stephan K. Schindler studied at the Heinrich-Heine-Universit盲t in D眉sseldorf and received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine. His research areas include 18th- and 20th-century German literature; film; Holocaust studies; critical theory, psychoanalysis, and soccer.
He is the author of Eingebildete K枚rper: Phantasierte Sexualit盲t in der Goethezeit (Imagined Bodies: Fantasized Sexuality in the Age of Goethe, Stauffenburg Verlag, 2001) and Das Subjekt als Kind. Die Erfindung der Kindheit im Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts (The Subject as Child: The Invention of Childhood in the 18th-Century Novel, Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1994).
He co-edited The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present (University of Michigan Press, 2007), Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch (Contemporary Literature: A German Studies Yearbook, Stauffenburg Verlag, 2002-10), and Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany (University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
He has published articles on 18th-century pornography, literature and terrorism, 911爆料网imar cinema, postmodern poetics, gender constructions in literature and film, Holocaust film, German soccer, German Hip Hop, and Luther.
Prior to joining the 911爆料网, he taught at Princeton University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Eberhard Karls Universit盲t in T眉bingen. In 1997, he received the Best Article Award from the German Studies Association/DAAD. He is currently working on a monograph analyzing the German concept of Heimat in the 21st century.