Christophe Fricker - Contact Info:
- Office Hours:
- Wednesday 2-4, and whenever my door is open. Everyone is welcome to call in at 1pm and join me for lunch if I'm there.
Education:
- D.Phil Oxford University, 2006
- MA Dalhousie University, 2003
- Specialties:
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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)
- 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)
- "Für Metrum und Blankvers! Die Neuen Formalisten in der amerikanischen Lyrik." Merkur. Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken 699
(July, 2007): 627-632.
- "Erstauntes Schweigen. Stefan Georges Gedicht 'Goethes lezte nacht in Italien'." Deutsche Schlüsselgedichte. Ed. Jattie Enklaar, Hans Ester, Evelyne Tax. Deutsche ChronikKönigshausen & Neumann,
2007.
- 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)
- Briefwechsel Friedrich Gundolf – Friedrich Wolters 1910-1925. Castrum Peregrini, forthcoming
(Scholarly edition of around 150 letters by two of the most influential members of the George circle)
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