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Thomas Lahusen

Thomas Lahusen (PhD, Lausanne, Switzerland) is Professor at the Department of History and Centre of Comparative Literature. His research interests focus on the multi-faceted experiences of “real socialism” and other forms of “totalitarian” culture during the twentieth century. His publications include How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin’s Russia (1997) and the following co-edited collections: Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika (1993), Intimacy and...

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Alexander Reisenbichler

Alexander Reisenbichler is a political economist, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, and Research Coordinator of the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies (JIGES) at the Munk School. His work explores the politics of housing, financial, and labor markets in advanced economies, with regional specializations in Western Europe and the United States. His current research investigates the political economy of housing capitalism in the United States and Germany from a comparative,...

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128N, 1 Devonshire Place

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www.reisenbichler.net

John Zilcosky

Prof. John Zilcosky teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, where he writes about modernist literature, travel writing, colonial cultures and psychoanalysis. His publications include Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism and the Traffic of Writing (winner of the MLA’s Scaglione Prize, 2003), Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey (2008), andUncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis and the End of Alterity (forthcoming, 2015). Zilcosky also writes about philosophy,...

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zilcosky@chass.utoronto.ca

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Angelica Fenner

Angelica Fenner is cross-appointed Associate Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and the current Graduate Coordinator in the Cinema Studies Institute. She is the author of Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 2011), co-editor of The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film (Camden House, 2014), and currently completing a book project on first-person film-making in contemporary Germany. Her interests...

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angelica.fenner@utoronto.ca

german.utoronto.ca/angelica-fenner

Kai Arzheimer

Kai Arzheimer is the 2017-2018 Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair for German and European Studies. He joins the Munk School from the University of Mainz in Germany, where he holds the Chair for German Politics and Political Sociology. Kai researches voter behaviour and political attitudes in Western democracies. He is particularly interested in political extremism and in electoral support for the Radical Right in a comparative perspective. His current publications include...

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219N, 1 Devonshire Place

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kai.arzheimer@utoronto.ca

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John Noyes

Research: Globalization, culture and philosophy in late-Enlightenment Germany; Concepts of the Human in Post-Apartheid South Africa Recent Book: Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism (University of Toronto Press, 2015) Forthcoming Book: Herder’s “Essay on Being”: A Translation and Critical Approaches (Camden House) Recent Awards: Fellowship at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (South Africa) (2017) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship: “The Legacy of Herder’s Theory of Cultural Difference and Universal Reason” (2016-17) SSHRC Insight Development Grant: “Globalization in the Age of...

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john.noyes@utoronto.ca

James Retallack

After graduating from Trent University in 1978, I studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and received my D.Phil. in 1983. I joined the University of Toronto in 1987, where I am now Professor of History and German Studies. I served as Chair of the German Department from 1999 to 2002. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses, and supervise Ph.D. field preparations and dissertations, in German and European history from...

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Room 120N, 1 Devonshire Place

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james.retallack@utoronto.ca

retallack.faculty.history.utoronto.ca

Phil Triadafilopoulos

Phil Triadafilopoulos is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Triadafilopoulos received his Ph.D. in Political Science for the New School for Social Research and is a former Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow. He also held a two-year visiting research fellowship at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt University...

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t.triadafilopoulos@utoronto.ca

triadafilopoulos.wordpress.com/.

Willi Goetschel

Background PhD 1989 in German, Harvard University Lic. phil (=M. Phil) 1982 in Philosophy, Universität Zürich President, Foundation Stiftung Dialogik www.dialogik.org General Editor, Bamidbar: Journal for Jewish Thought and Philosophy www.bamidbar-journal.org Executive Editor, The Germanic Review Editorial Board, Weimarer Beiträge Editorial Board, Lessing Year Book teaching interests 18th to 20th century German Literature and Thought, Enlightenment, German Jewish Culture, Critical Theory. Current research interests I am currently working on a project that examines the emergence of how modern philosophy theorizes difference, otherness, and alterity. The project called “Difference...

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w.goetschel@utoronto.ca

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Jennifer Jenkins

Jennifer L. Jenkins is Associate Professor of German and European History at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Modern German History. She is the author of Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-de-Siècle Hamburg (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003) and has held fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Harvard University’s Center for European Studies and from the National Endowment...

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