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 Thomas Pfau
Alice Mary Baldwin Distinguished Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies of the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program and Bass Fellow and Professor of Historical Theology and Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature
Office Location: 312 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: (919) 684-2741
Email Address: pfau@duke.edu
Web Page: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001KJ1VKS
Teaching (Fall, 2021):
- English 101s.01, The art of reading
Synopsis
- Allen 318, MW 03:30 PM-04:45 PM
- Xtianthe 852.01, Mod theol anthrop i: pascal
Synopsis
- Gray 110, M 05:30 PM-08:00 PM
- Office Hours:
- Fall 2021 office hours by appointment only pfau@duke.edu.
- Education:
- Ph.D., State University of New York - Buffalo
M.A., University of California - Irvine
BA, University of Constance, Germany
- Specialties:
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Romanticism
Novels
Eighteenth Century Literature
Nineteenth Century Literature
Critical Theory
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Thomas Pfau is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English, with secondary appointments in Germanic Languages & Literatures and in the Duke Divinity School. A native of Germany, Prof. 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 three essay collections on English Romanticism, as well as special issues of South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) English Romantic Review ( 2010, 2011), and Modernist Cultures (2005). To date, he is the author of three monographs: Wordsworth's Profession (Stanford UP, 1997) Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1794-1840 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2005) and Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge (Notre Dame UP, 2013). He has published some thirty-five essays in numerous essay collections and scholarly journals on a wide range of writers, including Rousseau, A. Smith, Kant, Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe, Beethoven, Eichendorff, Schleiermacher, Thomas Mann, Walter Benjamin and other writers and philosophers.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Pfau, T. "Kantian Aesthetics as "Soft" Iconoclasm." Logos a Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 24.3
(2021): 69-88.
- Pfau, T. "Absolute Gegebenheit: Image as aesthetic Urphanomen in Husserl and Rilke." Phenomenology to the Letter: Husserl and Literature.
2020. 227-260. [doi] [abs]
- Pfau, T. "“Superabundant being”: Disambiguating Rilke and Heidegger." Modern Theology 35.1WILEY,
(January, 2019): 23-42.
[doi] [abs]
- Pfau, T. "“Seeing and being seen coincide” freedom as contemplation in Nicholas of Cusa and G. M. Hopkins." Logos a Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 22.4Project Muse,
(January, 2019): 20-41.
[doi]
- Pfau, T. "Expanding Romanticism's Spatiotemporal, Disciplinary, and Conceptual Boundaries." Keats Shelley Journal 68
(2019): 160-162.
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