Andreas Huyssen

Andreas Huyssen is the Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he has also served as founding director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society and chair of the Department of Germanic Languages. His research and teaching focus on 18th-20th-century German literature and culture, international modernism, Frankfurt School critical theory, postmodernism, cultural memory of historical trauma in transnational contexts, and urban culture and globalization. Huyssen has won Columbia's Mark van Doren teaching award. He is a founding editor of New German Critique and is on the editorial boards of October, Constellations, Germanic Review, Transit, Key Words (UK), Critical Space (Tokyo), Memory Studies (UK), Lumina (Brazil), Comunicação & Cultura (Portugal). Huyssen has published widely in German and English and his work has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Slovenian, Turkish, and Mandarin among others. His books include Die frühromantische Konzeption von Übersetzung und Aneignung. Studien zur frühromantischen Utopie einer deutschen Weltliteratur, Friedrich Schlegel. "Athenäums"-Fragmente und andere Schriften, Drama des Sturm und Drang, After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia, Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory, William Kentridge, Nalini Malani: The Shadow-Play as Medium of Memory, Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film, Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South, and several edited and co-edited volumes.