Matthew D. Miller

Visiting Assistant Professor

Fall 2009

  • Intermediate German I (GER 203A)
  • Intermediate German I (GER 203B)
  • German Literature and Culture since 1945 (GER 317)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in German (GER 401)
Phone (207) 798-4126
Title Visiting Assistant Professor
Department German
Work Location Sills Hall
E-Mail mdmiller@bowdoin.edu
Matthew Miller

Education

Columbia University, Ph.D., 2007
Dissertation: "Literary Forms of Dialectics in the Works of Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller"

Swarthmore College, B.A., 1997

Research and Teaching Interests

  • German language, literature, philosophy and culture, 18th Century to the present
  • Realism and Modernism (including:  Büchner, Fontane, Kafka, Brecht, and Musil)
  • Literature of the Goethezeit (including: Romanticism, Classicism, Hölderlin and Kleist)
  • Frankfurt School Critical Theory
  • German Idealism
  • Philosophical Aesthetics and Literary Theory

Conference Presentations and Publications

“Literary Experiment and Social Mapping: Orientation in the Works of Alexander Kluge and Uwe Johnson,” Presentation at Sites of the Aesthetic Panel, MLA, Philadelphia, December 2009 (forthcoming)

“Multi-medial Approach to Peter Weiss’ Die Ästhetik des Widerstands,” Presentation at Approaches to Teaching German Avant-gardes panel, AATG at ACTFL Annual Convention, San Diego, November 2009 (forthcoming)

“The Non-Identity of Aristotle’s Politics,” Presentation at the 14th Annual Association for Core Texts and Courses Conference Who are We? Old, New and Timeless Answers from Core Texts, Plymouth, MA, April, 2008.

“Literarische Zwischenöffentlichkeit: Alexander Kluges Erzählerische Reaktionen auf die deutsche Wendezeit” at SUBversionen: Eine Tagung über das Verhältnis von Politik und Ästhetik in der Gegenwart, Künstlerhaus Edenkoben, Germany, July, 2006. (Published in SUBversionen, transcript verlag, 2007)

“Der Auftrag des Chiasmus im Revolutionsdrama: Heiner Müller mit Georg Büchner Lesen,” Presentation at Heiner Müller Symposium: „Du, Der Lesende ...“ (E. A. Poe) – Der fremde Text, Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus in Kooperation mit der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, December 2005.

“Alexander Kluge: The Dialectics of History in Literature,” Presentation at the Graduate Student Conference Figuring the Productive, Columbia University, March, 2003.