Martin Puchner
Hans Martin Puchner (born 1969 in Erlangen ) is a German-American literary scholar.
Life
Martin Puchner studied on a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation at the University of Konstanz (BA 1992), at the University of Bologna and at the University of California, Santa Barbara . He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1998 .
Until 2009 he was employed at Columbia University . Since then, he has taught English and comparative literature at Harvard University, where he also leads theater training. In 2017 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship . He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2011 .
Fonts (selection)
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Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2002.
- Theatrical Enemies: The anti-theatrical playwrights of modern times . Extended version. Translation by Jan Küveler. Rombach, Freiburg 2006.
- with Alan Ackerman (Ed.): Against Theater: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2003.
- Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen . Introduction and remarks by Martin Puchner. Barnes and Noble, New York 2003.
- Karl Marx : The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings . Introduction and remarks by Martin Puchner. Barnes and Noble, New York 2005.
- Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2006. (James Russell Lowell Award.)
- Modern Drama: Critical Concepts. Routledge, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-38660-9 .
- as co-editor: The Norton Anthology of Drama. Norton, New York 2009.
- The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy. Oxford University Press, New York 2010. (Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Theater Book 2012.)
- as editor: The Norton Anthology of World Literature, 3rd edition. Norton, New York 2012.
- The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization. Random House, New York 2017.
Web links
- Literature by and about Martin Puchner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Martin Puchner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Martin Puchner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Martin Puchner , website
- Martin Puchner , at Harvard
- Martin Puchner , at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Directory of members: Martin Puchner. Academia Europaea, accessed January 19, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Puchner, Martin |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Puchner, Hans Martin (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American literary scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | gain |