Fulbright-Kommission · Lützowufer 26 · 10787 Berlin
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Last Name:
First Name:
Roberts
Frank Corey
German Host Institution:
Period of Residence in Germany:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
February-July 2016 (Fulbright from Feb-April)
Email Address:
Website:
[email protected]
http://www.calvin.edu/directory/people/f-corey-roberts
Present Position in the U.S.:
Previous Positions:
Associate Professor of German
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
Academic Field / Discipline:
Academic Training and Degrees:
Germanistik
Ph.D. Germanic Studies (Indiana University)
Areas of Research:
*Pietism and the history of confessional biography and the Sammelbiographie in 18th century Germany
*The history of the discipline of aesthetics in 18th and 19th century Germany
*Literary representations of socio-political organization and resistance from the Sturm und Drang and Early
Romantics to the mid 20th century
Possible Lecture Topics:
*Johann Georg Hamann's place in the founding of a modern notion of aesthetics
*The influence of the language and tropes of Christian conversion on aesthetics in a German context
*The late 18th century discourse of experience and artistic creation
*The socio-political implications of Early Romantic literature
*The revolutionary aims of Wagner's aesthetic of absence in Das Ring des Nibelungen
Publications (selected):
•“Self-Reflection and Knowledge of Self in Hamann’s Early Philosophical and
Aesthetic Writings,” in Alexander Mathäs, ed., The Self as Muse: Narcissism and
Creativity in the German Imagination 1750-1900 (Lewisburg: Bucknell University
Press, 2011).
•"Johann Georg Hamann's Historical Language and the Subjective Communication of
Truth.” Herder Yearbook , 8 (2006): 119-132.
•“Heinrich Heine's Lutherbild and the Singularity of the Historical Moment.” German
Studies Review , 28.3 ( 2005): 583-98.
•“German Pietism and the Genesis of Literary Aesthetics: The Discourse of
Erfahrung in the 1700s.” Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und
Geistesgeschichte , 78 (2004): 200-28.
•“ The Perennial Search for Paradise : Garden Design and Political Critique in
Dorothea Schlegel's Florentin.” The German Quarterly , 75.3 (2002): 247-64.
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