John Davidson

JOHN DAVIDSON, PhD (Cornell University, 1993). Associate Professor, Graduate Studies Committee Chair. Director, Program of Film Studies. Specializations: German film and visual culture; post-Enlightenment literature; contemporary critical theories. Books: Deterritorializing the New German Cinema (U Minn P, 1999). Articles on: the Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih; New German Cinema; Black Humor; Uwe Johnson; Representations of the Radical Right; Post-Wall Cinema; Wolfgang Liebeneiner. Major courses taught: Survey of German Drama; German Romanticism; Surveys of German Literature from 1750-1870 and 1870-1950; Modernism/Postmodernism; Frankfurt School; Post-WW II Culture in the Two Germanies; Post-WW II Literature in German; German Film; Detective Fiction; War and Revolution.

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