Rüdiger Campe
Alfred C. and Martha F. Mohr Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Professor of Comparative Literature
203.432.0793
Email: rudiger.campe@yale.edu
In 2021-2022, Rüdiger Campe is finishing a book length study on the German scientist and philosopher, author of the Sudelbücher (waste books) Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. He teaches a graduate course on Robert Musil and the Proseminar in Comparative Literature, and an undergraduate course on German Novels after 1945.
Office Hours: Mondays 10:30 am - 12:00 pm or by appointment
Selected recent Academic Awards and Achievements:
- 2022 Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, Hamburg, Imaginaria of Force
- 2016 Fellow, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna
- 2014 Presentation of the Luebeck Lecture at the Ohio State University
- 2013 Presentation of the Szondi-Lecture, FU Berlin
- 2012-2014 Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center
Positions:
- 2016- Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University
- 2007- Professor of German, Yale University
- 2001-2007 Professor of German, Johns Hopkins University
Latest Books and Co-Edited Volumes:
- Die Institution im Roman. Robert Musil (Würzburg 2020)
- New Aufklärung/Enlightenment, special issue of Germanic Review 2020, co-ed. with Hans Adler
- Representing Agency, special issue of Law and Literature, co-ed. with Katrin Trüstedt
- Screen Genealogies. From Optical Device to Environmental Medium. Co-edited with Craig Buckley and Francesco Casetti (Amsterdam UP 2019)
- Bella Parrhesia. Figur und Begriff der freien Rede in der frühen Neuzeit (Rombach 2018)
Latest Article Publications:
- Actor, Orator, Person. The Representation of Passion and the Passion of Representation in Hobbes’s Leviathan (Law and Literature 2020)
- Die Zeit des Romans. Goethes Herrmann und Dorothea und Achillëis als Romanprojekte (Formen der Zeit, ed. C. Jany, R. Villinger)
- “Ein Buch worin ich alles einschreibe“. Lichtenbergs freie Rede über die Dinge im Sudelbuch (Lichtenberg Jahrbuch 2019)
- “Schutz und Schirm:” Screening in German During Early Modern Times, in Screens Genealogies.
- Die Hand im Spiel des physiologischen Realismus. Teil I: Bischof Berkeley. Teil II: Professor Mach, in z.B. Zeitschrift zum Beispiel (2019, 2 and 3).
- Büchners politische Komödien Dantons Tod und Leonce und Lena. Tragödie oder Komödie: Gattungen des Sozialen, in Athenäum 2019.
Latest Papers and Presentations:
- October 2019. Implikation. Versuch einer Rekonstruktion von Blumenbergs Verfahren. ZfL Berlin.
- July 2019. “Ein Buch in das ich alles einschreibe.“ Lichtenbergs freie Rede über die Dinge. Osnabrück, Lichtenberg Society.
- July 2019. Franz Kafkas Das Schloss, Orson Welles‘ The Trial, und die Frage der Institution. TU Dortmund.
- June 2019. Candide und Konsorten, Beste und schlechteste aller möglichen Welten bei Leibniz, Voltaire und Kleist. LMU Munich.
- December 2018. Schlegel’s Philosophy of Comedy (and Hegel‘s Philosophy of Tragedy) as Social Theories. Tel Aviv University.
complete list of publications, January 2020 (PDF)