Johannes Wankhammer. After the Endgame: Writing in the Time of the Deadline

Johannes Wankhammer

Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Reed College

After the Endgame:

Writing in the Time of the Deadline

Johannes Wankhammer is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Reed College. He joined the faculty at Reed after completing his PhD in German Studies from Cornell University, where he served as Mellon Graduate Fellow at the Society for the Humanities. His dissertation investigates how a transdisciplinary discourse on Aufmerksamkeit (attention) informed eighteenth-century poetics and the formation of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline from Leibniz to Baumgarten and Herder. Published and forthcoming side projects from the dissertation include articles on Johann Jakob Breitinger’s poetics of attention and on the concept of contingency at the intersection of eighteenth-century cosmology and poetics. In addition to his research on aesthetics and poetics, Johannes has worked on topics in critical theory, literature and science, and the rhetoric of environmental writing.