tnolden@wellesley.edu

Founders 408
781.283.2580

Office Hours, Fall 2009:
Tuesday 2:45-3:45 pm; Friday 12:30 - 1:20 pm.
And by appointment

Fall 2009:

246 - German Autobiography
Tuesday, Friday 1:30-2:40

Thomas Nolden (PH.D. Yale University) taught at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin and at the University of California at Berkeley before joining the faculty of Wellesley College in 1993. He is currently a visting professor at M.I.T.

His teaching portfolio includes, among others, courses on 18th-century culture and literature, Autobiographical Writing, Cultural Border-Crossings, Literature and Sexuality; Postwar Film and Culture, European Anti-fascism, and the History of Ideas in Europe.

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, and he has edited volumes on Jewish writing in present-day Europe..

Selected Publications:

Books:

Jewish Writing in Present-Day Europe. Critical Essays, co-edited with Vivian Liska (Bloomington, In.: Indiana University Press, 2008).

Beyond the Diaspora: The Other Spaces of Jewish Literature,” in Philippe Codde (ed.), Performing Pasts, Inventing Selves: History and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Writing (Albany, NY: SUNY UP, forthcoming).

"Introduction" (with Vivian Liska), in Vivian Liska and Thomas Nolden (eds.), in Contemporary  Jewish Writing in Europe. A Guide (Indiana University Press, 2008) xv-xxxiii.

"Contemporary Jewish Writing in France," in Vivian Liska and Thomas Nolden (eds.), Contemporary  Jewish Writing in Europe. A Guide (Indiana University Press, 2008) 118-39.

"Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary," (with Peter Varga) in Vivian Liska and Thomas Nolden (eds.), Contemporary  Jewish Writing in Europe. A Guide (Indiana University Press, 2008) 160-76.

"Prismatic Spaces: Europe, Literature, and the Jews," (with Vivian Liska) in Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 52 (2007) 22-34.