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Kenneth S. Calhoon

Kenneth S. Calhoon received his Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of California, Irvine. He taught for two years at Haverford and Bryn Mawr colleges before joining Oregon’s faculty in 1987. He spent academic year 1994-95 at the University of Bonn as a Humboldt Fellow. He is author of Affecting Grace: Theater, Subject and the Shakespearean Paradox in German Literature from Shakespeare to Kleist (Toronto 2013), 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). His publications cover topics that range from eigtheenth-century literature and thought through the early twentieth century, with film, the visual arts and psychoanalysis being particular foci. His current project is concerned with Romanticism and Weimar cinema. He has recently assumed the headship of Oregon’s Department of Comparative Literature