SVEN KRAMER
(Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
The Department of German Studies at Brown welcomes Sven Kramer as our Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor in Spring 2012.
Prof. Kramer is Professor of German Literature and Literary Cultures at the University of Lüneburg. In addition, he has held a number of visiting positions in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
His research interests include the depiction of violence in literature and of left-wing terrorism in literature. Further fields of research comprise the aesthetics of the Frankfurt School, the theory and the history of the essay and the essay-film, and studies on individual authors and filmmakers, such as H. G. Adler, Améry, Büchner, Geissler, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Kafka, Tieck, P. Weiss, as well as Cronenberg, Kluge, Marker, Riefenstahl.
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