Adrian Daub

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Adrian Daub (* 1980 in Cologne ) is a German specialist in German studies and literary studies . He is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University .

Life

In 2003 he graduated from Swarthmore College with a bachelor's degree in comparative literature. A year later, he added a master's degree at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his doctorate in 2008.

Following his graduation, he joined Stanford initially a position as assistant professor at was in 2013 associate professor and received in 2016 a full professor in the field of German literature and comparative literature . Also in 2016 he became the director of the university's program for studies on feminism, gender and sexuality.

The subjects of his academic activity are the history of German literature , culture and intellectual life since 1790, German idealism and German romanticism , philosophy, gender and sexuality, German literature and film since the end of World War II, music and German modernism, the Opera of the fin de siècle , the Frankfurt school , photography, literature and culture of memory .

He works as a freelance author and critic for several newspapers, magazines and other mass media in German-speaking countries, including the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , die Welt , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Zeit and the culture magazine Merkur .

Works (selection)

  • “Twin-like gestures”: On the cultural perception of four-handed piano playing in the nineteenth century . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-3894-5 (257 pages).
  • Uncivil unions: The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism & Romanticism . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2012, ISBN 978-0-226-13693-6 (376 pages).
  • Tristan's Shadow: Sexuality and the Total Work of Art after Wagner . Chicago University Press, Chicago 2013, ISBN 978-0-226-08213-4 (240 pages).
  • Four-Handed Monsters: Four-Hand Piano Playing and Nineteenth-Century Culture . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-998177-9 (272 pages).
  • With Charles Kronengold: The James Bond Songs: Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-023455-3 (256 pages).
  • Pop Up Nation: Inside views from Silicon Valley . Hanser, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25376-6 (90 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrian Daub. Division Of Literatures, Cultures, And Languages, Stanford University, accessed May 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Adrian Daub - Curriculum vitae. (PDF) Division Of Literatures, Cultures, And Languages, Stanford University, 2016, accessed May 8, 2018 (English, academic résumé and list of publications).
personal data
SURNAME Daub, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION University professor, professor of comparative literature at Stanford University
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century