An introductory German course designed around Delfin (Hueber) that
emphasizes transcultural learning and literacy development. I taught a 50-minute
section ...
1 CURRICULUM VITAE
ARI LINDEN Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures University of Kansas 2077 Wescoe Hall 1445 Jayhawk Boulevard Lawrence, KS 66045-7590
[email protected] 785-864-9176
EDUCATION 2009 – 2013 2009 – 2010 2006 – 2009 2001 – 2005
Ph.D. German Studies, Cornell University Dissertation: Between Complicity and Critique: The Limits of Satire in Karl Kraus, Elias Canetti and Else Lasker-Schüler Visiting research fellow, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin M.A. German Studies, Cornell University B.A. History, University of California, Berkeley
CURRENT POSITION Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas. RESEARCH INTERESTS • • • • •
Twentieth-century German and Austrian literature and visual culture German-Jewish modernity Comic literature and theories of comedy, satire, and irony The Frankfurt School/Critical Theory Hegel and German Idealist aesthetics
PUBLICATIONS “Beyond Repetition: Karl Kraus’s ‘Absolute Satire’.” Forthcoming in German Studies Review (2013). 28 manuscript pages. Awarded the 2012 GSA Graduate Student Essay Prize. “Quoting the Language of Nature in Karl Kraus’s Satires.” The Journal of Austrian Studies (46:1, Spring 2013): 1-21. “The Medusan Glance: Language and Critique in the Early Writings of Walter Benjamin.” New German Review (25, 2011): 43-60. “Textual Suicide, Divine Violence, and the Unwritten Law in Kafka’s ‘In der Strafkolonie.’” Focus on German Studies (15, 2008): 61-79.
2 Review: Irina Djassemy. Die verfolgende Unschuld: Zur Geschichte des autoritären Charakters in der Darstellung von Karl Kraus (Böhlau Wien: 2011). Forthcoming in the Journal of Austrian Studies (2013). Review: Sascha Kirchner, Vivian Liska, Karl Solibakke, and Bernd Witte, eds. Walter Benjamin und das Wiener Judentum zwischen 1900 und 1913 (Königshausen und Neumann: 2009). Modern Austrian Literature (Vol. 44, No. 1-2, 2011): 98 – 100. CONFERENCE PAPERS “‘Er ist doch ä Jud’: Karl Kraus’s Jewish Humor,” 36th Annual German Studies Association Conference in Milwaukee, WI (October 2012). “Die Senkgrube des Vergessens: Alfred Polgar, World War I and the Viennese Feuilleton,” Austrian Studies Association Conference, California State University, Long Beach, CA (April 2012). “The Half-Truths of Karl Kraus and Franz Kafka,” Annual Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association Conference, Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, PA (April 2011). “After the Flood: The Figure of Nature in Karl Kraus’s Satire,” 34th Annual German Studies Association Conference in Oakland, CA (October 2010). “Sounds of Silence: Between Rauschen and Schweigen in Adorno’s Literary Aesthetics,” Graduate conference organized by the German Department at the University of Virginia (February 2008). TEACHING EXPERIENCE FIRST-YEAR WRITING SEMINARS
“Thinking about Laughing: Comedians and the Comic Form.” Fall 2012. An English-language writing course I created that focuses on the relationship between comic phenomena (satire, irony, humor) and rhetorical style. Authors included Kleist, Swift, Kafka, Gogol, Hašek and Aristophanes. “Marx, Nietzsche, Freud.” Fall, Spring 2007-08. An English-language writing course that introduces students to the critical thought of three modern, German-language theorists. The focus was on the philosophy of history advanced by each thinker. GERMAN LANGUAGE COURSES
“Exploring German Contexts I, II.” Fall, Spring 2008-09. An introductory German course designed around Delfin (Hueber) that emphasizes transcultural learning and literacy development. I taught a 50-minute section that met four times per week, and developed new learning materials for each unit.
3 “Expanding the German Dossier.” Fall, Spring 2010-11. A third-semester German course that focuses on expanding vocabulary, reviewing major grammatical concepts, developing effective reading strategies, improving listening comprehension, and working on writing skills. “Perspectives on German Culture.” Fall 2011. An upper-intermediate German course that aims at expanding written and spoken German through the examination of texts in a variety of media against the backdrop of different cultural, political, and historical contexts. CORNELL SUMMER COLLEGE
“Genius and Madness in Literature.” Summer 2012. This intensive, three-week seminar offers incoming high school seniors their first introduction to college-level reading and writing. Authors included Aristotle, Diderot, Goethe, Balzac, Poe, and Hoffmann. SERVICE • • • • • •
Translator for a project on Aby Warburg carried out in conjunction with Signale: modern german letters, cultures, & thought (Spring 2013) Participant in Multimedia Workshop with Grit Matthias, Lecturer in German (Winter 2012) Copy Editor of German Culture News, the semiannual newsletter of the Institute for German Cultural Studies (2011 – 2013); co-editor (2010 – 2011). Research assistant for Professor Peter Hohendahl (Summer 2011). Organizer of Cornell Department of German Studies Graduate Student Conference: “Turns of the Century: Re-Mapping Germany’s Twentieth Century” (March 2008). Co-organizer of the symposium, “Was ist Glück?”, Cornell University (April 2007).
LANGUAGES • •
German: near-native speaking, reading and writing. Spanish: speaking, reading knowledge.
