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 Thomas Pfau
Eads Family Professor of English & Professor of German and Germanic Languages & Literature
Office Location: 313 Allen
Office Phone: 919-681-3098; 919-684-6820
Email Address: pfau@duke.edu
Teaching (Spring, 2010):
- Office Hours:
- Mondays 3:45-4:30 pm
- Education:
- Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
M.A., University of California at Irvine
BA, University of Constance, Germany
- Specialties:
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19th Century Literature
Romanticism
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A native of Germany, Thomas Pfau began his academic career in 1980 as a student of History and Literature at the University of Constance. In 1982, he came to the U.S. where, at UC-Irvine, he joined the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature and Theory. In 1985, he continued his studies in the Comparative Literature Program at SUNY-Buffalo where he received his Ph.D. in 1989 with a dissertation on self-consciousness in Romantic poetry and theory (Wordsworth, Shelley, et al.). Since then, his interests have gradually broadened to include topics in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, philosophy, and intellectual history. Besides translating and editing two volumes of theoretical writings by Hölderlin and Schelling, he also edited two essay collections on English Romanticism, two special issues of English Romantic Review (forthcoming in 2010), and a special issue of Modernist Cultures (2005). To date, he is the author of two monographs: Wordsworth's Profession (Stanford UP, 1997) and Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1794-1840 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2005). He has published some thirty essays in numerous essay collections and scholarly journals on a wide range of writers, including Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Goethe, Beethoven, Eichendorff, Schleiermacher, Thomas Mann, et al. – At present, he is completing a book-length study focused on key concepts of Modernity (Action; Personhood; Voluntarism; Teleology; Aesthetic Play).
- Curriculum Vitae
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- T. Pfau. "Differentiation, Metamorphosis, and the Phenomenology of Life in Ovid and Goethe." Studies in Romanticism
(2010)
- Colin Jager. The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era. review forthcoming in Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, no. 25
(2009).
- "The Letter of Judgment: Practical Reason in Aristotle, the Stoics, and Rousseau." The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation
(2009)
- "Mourning Modernity: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form." The Oxford Handbook on the Elegy.
2010.
- T. Pfau. Helen Elam and Frances Ferguson, eds. "The Wordsworthian Enlightenment". Studies in Romanticism 48.2
(2009): 159-65.
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