Overview
Professor Hohendahl’s teaching and research interests include eighteenth to twentieth century German literature, especially Enlightenment, Vormärz (Heine, Büchner), and Modernism (Benn, Jünger); intellectual history; literary, political and social theory with emphasis on Critical Theory (Adorno, Benjamin, Habermas); comparative literature with emphasis on eighteenth and nineteenth-century European literature and philosophy; history of science with emphasis on the humanities (history of German studies, history of the university). He is editor of the monograph series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought, published by Cornell University Press.
Office Hours
By appointment only
Research Focus
- Critical Theory (especially Adorno, Benjamin and Habermas)
- European Realism
- History of Criticism
- 19th- and 20th-Century German Literature
Publications
- Literaturkritik und Öffentlichkeit. München: Piper, 1974.
- The Institution of Criticism. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1982.
- A History of German Literary Criticism (Editor and Contributor). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
- Building a National Literature. The Case of Germany 1830-1870. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.
- Reappraisals: Shifting Alliances in Postwar Critical Theory. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991.
- Geschichte, Opposition, Subversion. Studien zur Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Köln : Böhlau, 1993.
- Prismatic Thought. Theodor W. Adorno. Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
- German Studies in the United States. A Historical Handbook, (Editor and Contributor). New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
- Heinrich Heine. Europäischer Schriftsteller und Intellektueller. Berlin : Erich Schmidt, 2008.
- The Fleeting Promise of Art: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory Revisited. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2013.
- Erfundene Welten: Relektüren zu Form und Zeitstruktur in Ernst Jüngers erzählender Prosa. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2013.
