Professor Kenneth Calhoon is appointed jointly in the Program in Comparative Literature, which he has also directed, and the Department of German and Scandinavian. He received his doctorate in 1984 from the University of California, Irvine. Before joining Oregon’s faculty in 1987, he taught for two years at Haverford and Bryn Mawr. His distinctions include a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching. His writings cover topics that range from eighteenth-century literature and thought through the early twentieth century, particular emphases being film, the visual arts and psychoanalysis. He is author of Fatherland: Novalis, Freud, and the Discipline of Romance (Wayne State, 1992) and editor of Peripheral Visions: The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema (Wayne State, 2001). A new book, forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press, is entitled Affecting Grace: Theatre, Subject and the Shakespearean Paradox in German Literature from Lessing to Kleist.