Volker Langbehn: Gender and Regional Subjectivity in Contemporary Spain

Monday, February 16, 2015, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
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German Professor Volker Langbehn gives a presentation exploring the connections between gender and regional subjectivity in contemporary Spain. Free.
Location: 
Humanities Building, Room 118
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Sponsor: 
Foreign Languages and Literatures Department
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Volker Langbehn
Phone: 
415-338-7413
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Langbehn’s interests include German literature from 1700 to 1820 and from 1890 to present, theory of literature, the relationship between psychology and literature, history of aesthetic theory, visual studies, cultural criticism, European Colonialism and genocide studies.

He has published articles on Friedrich Nietzsche, Christa Wolf, Arno Schmidt, Fritz von Unruh, Novalis, Gert Heidenreich and German Colonialism. He is the author of Arno Schmidt's Zettels Traum: An Analysis (Rochester: Camden House, 2003), editor of German Colonialism, Visual Culture and Modern Memory (New York: Routledge, 2010) and co-editor of German Colonialism: Race, the Holocaust and Postwar Germany (New York: Columbia UP, 2011).

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Volker Langbehn