Steve Dowden

Title

Professor of German

German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature

Expertise

Modern German Literature and culture; European modernism.

Degrees

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.

Texas Tech University, M.A.

Texas Tech University, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	dowden@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-3218
Office:	Shiffman, 211

Awards and Honors

Humboldt Fellowship (University of Konstanz) (1993 - 1994)

Morse Fellowship (Yugoslavia) (1987 - 1988)

Fulbright Summer Seminar (Bonn and Berlin) (1986)

Fulbright Fellowship (Vienna and Tuebingen) (1981 - 1982)

Courses Taught

COML	150b	Critique of Erotic Reason
ECS	100a	European Cultural Studies Proseminar: Modernism
GECS	100a	German Literature, Music, and Film
GECS	170a	Viennese Modernism, 1890-1938
GECS	180b	European Modernism and the German Novel
GECS	185b	Contemporary German Fiction
GER	109b	Meisterwerke Deutscher Kurzprosa
GER	121a	German Lyric Poetry
GER	130b	Die Prinzessin und der Golem: Mäerchen
HUM	125a	Topics in the Humanities
USEM	65a	Critique of Erotic Reason
USEM	65b	Cult Books and the Popular Imagination

Scholarship

Dowden, Stephen and Meike Werner. "The Place of German Modernism." The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History. Ed. Helmust Walser Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 (forthcoming)

Dowden, Steve. "The Amphibolical Cunning of Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus." Amphibolie, Ambiguität, Ambivalenz. Ed. Frauke Berndt and Stefan Kammer. Wuerzburg: Koenigshausen & Neumann, 2009

Dowden, Steve, and Jane V. Curran. "Hans-Ulrich Treichel." Literary Encyclopedia. 2008.

Dowden, Steve. "Metaphor, Illness, and Literature, or: Lunch with Nikolay Stepanovich." Concilium: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie 43. 3: AIDS (2007): 75-84.

Dowden, Stephen. "Elfriede Jelinek." Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature, pt. 2. vol. 330 Dictionary of Literary Biography New York: Thomson Gale, 2006. 368-384.

Dowden, Steve. "Ethical Style: Sontag in Sarajevo, Jelinek in Vienna." Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch. vol. 5 Ed. Paul Michael Lützeler and Stephan Schindler. Stuttgart: Stauffenberg Verlag, 2006

Dowden, Stephen and Jane V. Curran, ed. COLLOQUIA GERMANICA: A special issue on Hans-Ulrich Treichel. Tübingen: Narr, 38. 2005.

Dowden, Steve. "Robert Musil." The Literary Encyclopedia. 2005.

Dowden,Stephen. "Nietzsche, Benjamin, Treichel and the Demon of Noontide." Colloquia Germanica 38. 1 (2005): 47-63.

Dowden,Steve; Jane Curran. "Ostwestfalen ist ueberall: Gespraech mit Hans-Ulrich Treichel." Colloquia Germanica 37. 3-4 (2005): 302-344.

Dowden, Steve. "The Past Rings out Clearly." Rev. of The Bells in Their Silence: Travels Through Germany, by Michael Gorra. The Boston Globe July 11, 2004

Dowden, Steve. "A Testament Betrayed: Bernhard and his Legacy." A Companion to Thomas Bernhard. Ed. Matthias Konzett. Rochester: Camden House, 2002. 51-70.

Dowden,Stephen, Meike G. Werner. German Literature, Jewish Critics: The Brandeis Symposium. Camden House, 2002.

Dowden,Stephen, ed. Companion to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain. Columbia SC: Camden House, 1999.

Dowden,Stephen. Kafka's Castle and the Critical Imagination. Columbia SC: Camden House, 1995.

Dowden, Stephen. "Irony and Ethical Autonomy in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre." Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 68. 1 (1994): 134-154.

Dowden,Stephen. Understanding Thomas Bernhard. University of South Carolina Press, 1991.

Dowden,Stephen, ed. Hermann Broch: Literature, Philosophy, Politics. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1988.

Dowden,Stephen. Sympathy for the Abyss: A Study in the Novel of German Modernism. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1986.