Christophe Fricker

Christophe Fricker
Contact Info:
Office Location:  111A Old Chemistry Bldg
Office Phone:  (919) 660-3171
Email Address:   send me a message
Web Page:   http://www.aufenthalte.info/

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • German 2.02, FIRST-YEAR GERMAN II Synopsis
    Old chem 119, MW 02:50 PM-03:50 PM; Old chem 119, TuTh 02:50 PM-03:50 PM
  • German 148s.01, SP TOP GER LIT & CULTURE Synopsis
    Social sciences 109, MW 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
Office Hours:

Wednesdays 2-4, and whenever my door is open. Everyone is welcome to join me for lunch on Thursdays at 1pm at the Refectory.

Education:

  • D.Phil Oxford University, 2006
  • MA Dalhousie University, 2003
Specialties:

20th Century Literature
19th Century Literature
18th Century Literature
Literary History & Criticism
Research Interests: German Poetry from 1770 to the present, aesthetics, hermeneutics, the role of literature in society, the relationship between politics, society and academia.

Current projects: I am currently working on a book on Ernst Jünger for Camden House and the revisions of my dissertation on Stefan George. I continue to translate poetry by the so-called New Formalists, and I have launched, together with Peter Burian, "Translatable", a three-year event series on translation.

Duties:

Assistant Editor, The German Quarterly (since 2006) President, Oxford University German Society (2004/2006) Translator in residence, Junge Oper Rhein-Main (2004-2006)
Curriculum Vitae
Current Ph.D. Students  

  • Marc Reibold
  • Gabriele Wurmitzer
Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1.  Ernst Jünger: An Introduction to his Life and Works.  under contract.
  2.  “Living Together.” Die amerikanischen Dichter Edgar Bowers, Dick Davis und Timothy Steele. Castrum Peregrini 274/75 (2006). (Readings in Amsterdam, Berlin, Stuttgart and Heidelberg to launch this publication. Reviewed in the FAZ. Poems of three outstanding American poets, along with my German translations, and articles on their poetics)
  3.  Das schöne Auge des Betrachters. Gedichte, mit Illustrationen von Timothy J. Senior. Quartheft 07 Johannes Frank, 2008. (Winner of the 2009 Hermann Hesse Förderpreis; book launches in Potsdam, Heidelberg, Würzburg and Tübingen; reviewed in Die Welt and Berliner Morgenpost; subject of an exhibition at Bostock Library)
  4.  Larkin Terminal: Von fremden Ländern und Menschen. Plöttner, 2009. (book launch at Gohliser Schlösschen in Leipzig)
  5.  Friedrich Gundolf – Friedrich Wolters. Ein Briefwechsel aus dem Kreis um Stefan George.  Böhlau, 2009  (Scholarly edition of around 150 letters by two of the most influential members of the George circle; reviewed in DIE WELT and on radio SWR2.)
  6.  Schiller’s “On Grace and Dignity” in its Cultural Context: Essays and a New Translation.  Camden House, 2005  (Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement, German Quarterly, Modern Language Review, German Studies Review, and German Notes and Reviews. First scholarly English edition of Schiller’s ground-breaking study, along with six essays. Contributors include Fritz Heuer, David Pugh and Alan Menhennet)
  7.  Friedrich Hölderlin – Zu seiner Dichtung. Castrum Peregrini 266/67 (2005). (Events at Oxford, Tübingen and Amsterdam to launch this publication. Twelve essays on Hölderlin’s poetry, its translation, and its reception in the George-circle and in music. Contributors include Bernhard Böschenstein, Michael Hamburger, Manfred Koch and Ute Oelmann)

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