Thomas Nolden

Thomas Nolden, professor of German and director of Comparative Literature (Ph.D., Yale University) taught at the Freie Universitþt 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.

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Profile last updated: 12/06