Stephan Schindler

Professor of German

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Stephan K. Schindler studied at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf and received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine. His research areas include 18th- and 20th-century German literature; film; Holocaust studies; critical theory, psychoanalysis, and soccer.

He is the author of Eingebildete Körper: Phantasierte Sexualität in der Goethezeit (Imagined Bodies: Fantasized Sexuality in the Age of Goethe, Stauffenburg Verlag, 2001) and Das Subjekt als Kind. Die Erfindung der Kindheit im Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts (The Subject as Child: The Invention of Childhood in the 18th-Century Novel, Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1994). 

He co-edited The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present (University of Michigan Press, 2007), Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch (Contemporary Literature: A German Studies Yearbook, Stauffenburg Verlag, 2002-10), and Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany (University of North Carolina Press, 1996).

He has published articles on 18th-century pornography, literature and terrorism, Weimar cinema, postmodern poetics, gender constructions in literature and film, Holocaust film, German soccer, German Hip Hop, and Luther.

Prior to joining the ßÙßÇÂþ»­, he taught at Princeton University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen. In 1997, he received the Best Article Award from the German Studies Association/DAAD. He is currently working on a monograph analyzing the German concept of Heimat in the 21st century.