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      Graduate Director
       
      mglevine@rci.rutgers.edu
      172 College Avenue, Room 301
      (732) 932-7201 ext. 23
   
  Spring 2012 Office Hours:
  By appointment.
   
   
         
   
Michael Levine is a Professor & Graduate Director of German.
   
  Education:
   
Michael Levine received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University.
     
  Publications:
   
    Books    
   
 
  • The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival, Stanford University Press, 2006.
 
  • Writing Through Repression: Literature, Censorship, Psychoanalysis, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
 
  • A Weak Messianic Power: Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida and Celan, Fordham University Press (forthcoming Fall 2013).
   
  Edited Volume    
   
 
  • Co-editor with Bella Brodzki of Comparative Literature Studies Special Issue: Trials of Trauma: Comparative and Global Perspectives, vol. 48, no. 3, 2011 (Penn State Press).
   
    Translation    
   
 
  • Samuel Weber, Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan's Dislocation of Psychoanalysis, Cambridge University Press, 1991. Translation of Rückkehr zu Freud: Jacques Lacans Ent-stellung der Psychoanlyse (Berlin: Ullstein, 1978)
   
    Selected Articles and Contributions to Edited Volumes
   
 
  • “Poetry’s Demands and Abrahamic Sacrifice: Celan’s Poems for Eric,” MLN Comparative Literature 126 (2011): 1014–1048 (The Johns Hopkins University Press)
 
  • Editors’ Introduction to Comparative Literature Studies Special Issue Trials of Trauma: Comparative and Global Perspectives, co-edited with Bella Brodzki,, vol. 48, no. 3, 2011, 273-9 (Penn State Press)
 
  • “The Day the Sun Stood Still: Benjamin’s Theses, Trauma and the Eichmann Trial,” MLN German Issue, 126 (2011): 534–560 (The Johns Hopkins University Press)
 
  • “Beyond Victim and Perpetrator: New Subject Positions in Recent German-Jewish Films,” William Donahue and Martha Helfer, eds., Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies, 2011, 227-50, Camden House Press
 
  • “Spectral Gatherings: Derrida, Celan and the Covenant of the Word,” Diacritics, double issue on “Derrida and Democracy,” 38.1-2: Spring-Summer 2008, 64-91
 
  • “’A Place So Insanely Enchanting’: Kafka and the Poetics of Suspension,” MLN Comparative Literature Issue, 2009 (123:5), 1029-1067
 
  • “The Sense of an Unding: Kafka, Ovid, and the Misfits of Metamorphosis,” in Harold Bloom, ed., Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Bloom’s Literary Criticism, NY 2008,
 
  • “A Coming Freedom: Kafka’s Investigations of a Dog,” Journal of the Kafka Society of America, June/December 2006, Numbers 1-2, 43-51
 
  • Pendant: Büchner, Celan and the Terrible Voice of the Meridian” MLN German Issue, vol. 122, no. 3, German Issue, 2007, 573-601
 
  • “Silent Wine: Celan and the Poetics of Belatedness,” in New German Critique, Special Issue on Paul Celan, no. 91, Winter 2004, 151-170
 
  • “’Toward an Addressable You’: Ozick’s The Shawl and the Mouth of the Witness” in Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes, eds., Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust, The Modern Language Association of America, 2004, 396-411
 
  • "Necessary Stains: Art Spiegelman’s Maus and the Bleeding of History” in Deborah Geis, ed., Considering Maus: Approaches to Art Spiegelman’s “Survivor’s Tale” of the Holocaust, University of Alabama Press, 2003, 63-104
 
  • "Writing Anxiety: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster," Diacritics, Summer 1997, vol. 27, no. 2, 106-123
 
  • "Freud and the Scene of Censorship" in The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere, Richard Burt, ed., University of Minnesota Press, 1994, 168-191
 
  • "Accentuating Ent-stellung," translator's introduction to Samuel Weber, Return to Freud, Cambridge University Press, 1991, xv-xxii
 
  • "Heines Ghost Writer: Zum Problem der Selbstzensur in Schnabelewopski," Heine Jahrbuch, 1987, 9-28
   
   
  Research Interests:
   
  • Professor Levine specializes in 19th and 20th century German literature, literary theory, and intellectual history.
  • His research focuses on four major areas: intersections among literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic discourses; Holocaust Studies and the poetics of witnessing; the changing  structure of the literary, philosophical, and operatic work in the German nineteenth century; and the legal and political legacies of Nuremberg.
         
    Honors and Awards:    
   
  • Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Fall 2011
   
     
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