Rüdiger Campe

Research Areas

Rhetoric and Aesthetics, Literature and Science, Law and Literature, Baroque Theater, The Modern Novel, The Writing Scene

Bio

Positions
2016- Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University
2007- Professor of German, Yale University
2001-2007 Professor of German, Johns Hopkins University
 

Awards

Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Hamburg (2022); Guest of the Director, International Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna (IFK), (2016); Research Award of the Humbold Foundation (2011); Institute of Advanced Studies, Berlin (Wiko), (2007); Award of the Aby-Warburg Foundation, Hamburg (2002); and others.

Highlighted Publications

Metapher und Beschreibung. Ernst Machs Prinzip der Vergleichung in der Physik, mit einem Ausblick auf Blumenbergs Metaphorologie, in: S. Feger, D. Schneider, M. Welsch (ed.): Metapher und Erkenntnis. Beiträge zur Epistemologie der Metapher (Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie vol. 50), Berlin/Boston 2026, 197-219.

Das Verfahren der Literatur, in: Zeitschrift für Germanistik, NF 36 (2026). 20-32.

Meditation und Fabulation. Zu Form und Verfahren in Emmy Hennings‘ Gefängnis-Romanen, in: J. Heller, C. Rocks: Literarische Exerzitien. Göttingen 2026, 205-228.

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Current Activities

In August 2026, the Volume “Bürokratische Schreibszenen,“ co-edited with Johanna Käsmann and Jessica Maaßen appears with Brill-Fink; a book with essays on rhetoric, aesthetic, and epistemology in the Early Modern is submitted to the press under the title “In the Domain of Figuration.” In the Fall 2026, Rüdiger Campe is teaching an undergraduate course on “Poetry and Prose” in Rilke and Virginia Woolf and co-teaches a graduate seminar on the (early) modern novel with Katie Trumpener; the course in the Spring 2027 is devoted to the preparation of the graduate studies in German. 

Co-editor with Karen Feldman of “Paradigms,” book series with DeGruyter, Berlin/Boston.

Ongoing projects
In the Domain of Figuration, a collection of essays on rhetoric in early modernity and Lichtenbergs Schreibszene. Die Phänomene und das Ende der Evidenz.