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Thomas Nolden 

Professor of German
Director of Comparative Literature  


 

tnolden@wellesley.edu

Founders 408
781.283.2580

Office Hours, Fall 2008:
to be arranged

Fall 2008:

201.01 Intermediate German
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 11:10-12:20 pm

329 Readings in Enlightenment and Romanticism
Tuesday, Friday 1:30-2:40 pm




       
 
Thomas Nolden (PH.D. Yale University) taught at the Freie Universitūt in Berlin and at the University of California at Berkeley before joining the faculty of Wellesley College in 1993.

His teaching portfolio includes, among others, courses on 18th-century culture and literature, KultbŸcher, J.W. Goethe, German-Jewish Culture, Postwar German Film and Culture, European Anti-fascism, and the History of Germany as a Kulturnation.

His research interests cover a wide range of interests and span several eras of German and European culture and literature. He has written books on the history of epistolary poetics from Horace to twentieth-century authors, on Jewish literature in post-war Austria and Germany, and on Jewish writers in contemporary France.

Selected Publications:

Books:

Jewish Writing in Present-Day Europe. Critical Essays, co-edited with Vivian Liska (IN, Indiana University Press, forthcoming).

In Lieu of Memory: Contemporary Jewish Writing in France (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006).

Voices from the Diaspora. Jewish Women Writing in Contemporary Europe, co-edited with Frances Malino (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005).

Junge jüdische Literatur. Konzentrisches Schreiben in der Gegenwart [Young Jewish Writing in Contemporary Austria and Germany] (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1995).

'An einen jungen Dichter': Studien zur epistolaren Poetik ['Letters to a Young Poet': Studies in Epistolary Poetics] (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1995).

Articles and Essays:

Contemporary Jewish Writing in France," in Vivian Liska and Thomas Nolden (eds.), Jewish Writing in Present-Day Europe. Critical Essays (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, forthcoming).

" Voices of the Diaspora. An Introduction", in Thomas Nolden and Frances Malino, eds. Voices from the Diaspora. Jewish Women Writing in Contemporary Europe (Evanston, Il.: Northwestern UP, 2006).

" Die Koordinaten der Diaspora: Raumkonstellationen in den Texten jüdischer Autorinnen aus Europa," in Hiltrud Wallenborn et al. (eds.), Der Ort des Judentums in der Gegenwart (Berlin, be.bra. wissenschaft, 2004) 171-89.

" Pierre Goldman and the Beginnings of jeune littérature juive," in French Forum 28: 2 (2003) 57-76.

" Strukturen autobiographischen Schreibens in der Literatur der jüdischen générations d'après," in Romanische Forschungen. Vierteljahresschrift für Romanische Sprachen und Kulturen 4 (2003): 423-43.

" 'Autojudéographie': 'Réjudaïsation' and Autobiographical Writing in France Since 1968," in Christoph Miething (ed.), Zeitgenössische jüdische Autobiographie (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2003) 95–109.

" Qu'est-ce que la littérature juive? Jüdische Literatur nach 1968 in Deutschland und Frankreich," in Sander L. Gilman and Hartmut Steinecke (eds.), Deutsch-jüdische Literatur derneunziger Jahre. Die Generation nach der Shoah (Berlin: E. Schmidt Verlag, 2002) 189-203.

" Anaesthetics: The Shoah in Contemporary Jewish Writing," in Adrian Del Caro and Janet Ward, (eds.), German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2000) 214-22.

" 'Aus der Vergangenheit herausgewandert.' Überlegungen zur Lyrik jüdischer Autoren der Gegenwart," in Colloquia Germanica 31:3 (1998) 259-76.

" Colonial Spaces and Bodies. Hans Grimm's 'Geschichten aus Südwestafrika'," in Sara Fried-richsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne Zantop (eds.), The Imperialist Imagination. German Colonialism and Its Legacy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998) 125-38.

" Widerspruch im Dialog. Spiel- und Bewegungsräume jüdischer Gegenwartslyrik am Beispiel Matthias Hermann," in Literatur für Leser 20:4 (1997) 169-81.

" Die Mutter in Erinnerungstexten jüdischer Autoren der Nachkriegszeit," in Argonautenschiff. Jahrbuch der Anna-Seghers-Gesellschaft 6 (1997) 252-69.

" Foreign Language Literacy as (Op)Positional Practice" (with Claire Kramsch), in Jörg Roche
and Thomas Salumets (eds.), Germanics under Construction - Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Prospects (Munich: Fink, 1996) 61-76.

" Friedrich Schlegels 'Weihe des Alten': Poetische Initiation im romantischen Gedicht," in Euphorion 88:4 (1994) 468-477.

" Redefining Literacy in a Foreign Language" (with Claire Kramsch), in Die Unterrichtspraxis 27:1 (1994) 28-35.

" Contemporary German Jewish Literature," in German Life and Letters 47:1 (1994) 77-93.

" An eine junge Dichterin: Der poetologische Diskurs über die Schriftstellerin des 18. Jahr-hunderts," in Lessing Yearbook 24 (1992) 97-120.

" Portrait of the Artist as a Young Soldier: R.M. Rilke's 'Cornet'," in The German Quarterly 64:4 (1991) 443-51.

" Der Décadent und sein Arzt: Bemerkungen zur europäischen Literatur der Jahrhundertwende," in Arcadia 24:2 (1989) 157-88.

" Der Schriftsteller als Literaturkritiker: Ein Porträt Martin Walsers," in Jürgen Schlunk and Armand E. Singer (eds.), Martin Walser: International Perspectives (New York and Berne: Lang, 1987) 171-85.

" Nietzsche after 1968: A Conference Report," (et al.) in Telos 68 (1986) 129-37.

Entries in Encyclopedia:

" Marlène Amar"; Myriam Anissimov"; "Eva Kuryluk" in Paula Hyman and Dalia Ofer (eds.) Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia(Jerusalem: Shalvi, forthcoming in 2004).

" Hannah Arendt"; "Katja Behrens"; "Hans-Georg Gadamer" in John Sandford (ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 1999)
21-2; 43; 243.

 
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