Christophe Fricker, Language Program Director of Germanic Languages & Literature and Visiting Assistant Professor of Markets & Management Studies and Ph.D.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	116A Old Chemistry Building
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3171
Email Address:

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

• 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.

Areas of Interest:

Poetry
Translation
Hermeneutics
Travel Writing

Curriculum Vitae

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 no. 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 (2008), Johannes Frank (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 (2009), Plöttner (book launch at Gohliser Schlösschen in Leipzig.) .
5. Friedrich Gundolf – Friedrich Wolters. Ein Briefwechsel aus dem Kreis um Stefan George (2009), Böhlau (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, edited by C. Fricker and J.V. Curran (2005), Camden House (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, edited by C. Fricker and B. Pieger, Castrum Peregrini no. 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.) .