Thomas Pfau - Contact Info:
Teaching (Spring 2012):
- Xtianthe 220.02, THEOLOGICAL TOPICS
Synopsis
- Tba, M 06:15 PM-08:45 PM
- English 271cs.01, THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF BELIEF
Synopsis
- Friedl bdg 126, M 06:15 PM-08:45 PM
- German 322.02, GERMANIC SEMINAR
Synopsis
- Old chem 119, W 04:40 PM-07:10 PM
Education:
- Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, 1989
- M.A. University of California at Irvine, 1985
- BA University of Constance, Germany, 1982
- Specialties:
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19th Century Literature
Critical Theory
Literary History & Criticism
- Research Interests:
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 main interests have broadened to include a large array of Romantic writers -philosophical, literary, historical- in England and Germany. His published work has explored such questions as paranoia as an mediation of historically induced anxiety (in Blake, Godwin and the 1794 Treason Trials); moral speech as performance (in Hegel and J. L. Austin); problems of historicism in contemporary Romantic Studies and the work of Work of Walter Benjamin; the Romantic conception of textual interpretation (in Schleiermacher). Besides translating and editing two volumes of theoretical writings by Hölderlin and Schelling, he also edited two essay collections on English Romanticism . Following his 1997 book, Wordsworth's Profession (Stanford UP), he has just completed a study of English and German Romanticism, entitled Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1794-1840.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Selin Ever
- Magdalena Zurawski
- Lynda Nyota
- Erin Allingham
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- "Locke's Desire / Shaftesbury's Sentiment: Empiricism Conquers the Will." Romanticism and the Emotions. Ed. R. Sha and J. Faflak. Johns Hopkins University Press,
2012.
[author's comments]
- "The Appearance of Stimmung: Play as Virtual Rationality,”." Stimmung. Zur Wiederkehr einer ästhetischen Kategorie. Ed. Anna-Katharina Gisbertz. Wilhelm Fink Verlag,
March, 2011.
- T. Pfau. ""William Paley"." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 4 vols.. Ed. Frederick Burwick, Nancy Goslee, et al.. Blackwell,
2011.
- T. Pfau. ""Bildungsroman"." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature Ed. Frederick Burwick, Nancy Goslee, et al.. Blackwell,
(2011)
- T. Pfau. Paul Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are. Modern Philology 108.3
(2011): 191-94.
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