Martin Puchner

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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)

  • 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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of members: Martin Puchner. Academia Europaea, accessed January 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Puchner, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puchner, Hans Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH gain