Marc Caplan. Arnold Schoenberg’s Jewish Trauerspiel: Language, Runes, and Ruins in Moses und Aron

Marc Caplan
“Arnold Schoenberg’s Jewish Trauerspiel: Language, Runes, and Ruins in Moses und Aron”

Friday, January 20, 11:30am
WLH 309

MARC CAPLAN is a native of Louisiana and a graduate of Yale University. In 2003 he earned his Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University. Since then he has held appointments at Indiana University, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and the Johns Hopkins University, as well as visiting fellowships at the Universität Konstanz (Germany), the Center for Jewish History (New York), and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). In 2011 he published How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms–a comparison of Yiddish and African literatures–with Stanford University Press. Currently he is a visiting senior lecturer at his alma mater, where he is completing a second book, on Yiddish literature written in Weimar Germany, considered in comparison with contemporaneous German literature, theater, and film.