Steve Dowden

Title

Professor of German

Comparative Literature
German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature

Expertise

Modern German Literature and culture; European modernism; comparative literature (esp. comparing literature with other art forms); the novel as form; literature and philosophy.

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 Humanities Center, 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	121b	Tragedy and the Tragic
COML	150b	Critique of Erotic Reason
ECS	100a	European Cultural Studies Proseminar: Modernism
GECS	100a	German Literature, Music, and Film
GECS	180b	European Modernism and the German Novel
GER	105a	Learning Language through Literature/Learning Literature through Language
GER	109b	Meisterwerke Deutscher Kurzprosa
GER	121a	Der Eros und das Wort: Lyrik, Prosa, Drama
GER	130b	Die Prinzessin und der Golem: Mäerchen
GER	181a	Franz Kafka's Erzählungen

Scholarship

Dowden, Stephen. "A Distant Melancholy Song: Nietzsche, Büchner, and the Blues." The German Tragic. Ed. S. Dowden and T. Quinn. Camden House, 2014 (forthcoming)

Steve Dowden and Thomas Quinn, eds. The German Tragic. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014. (forthcoming)

Steve Dowden. "Die Schlafwandler und „das eigentliche Geschäft“ des Romans." Hermann Brochs Gesamtwerk: Neue Studien und Berichte. Ed. Michael Kessler, Paul Michael Lützeler. New York and London: de Gruyter, 2013 (forthcoming)

Steve Dowden. "Thomas Bernhard and the Masterpiece Problem." Thomas Bernhard: Zur gesellschaftlichen und politischen Bedeutung der Literatur. Ed. Johann Georg Lughofer. Vienna: Böhlau, 2012. 77-86.

Steve Dowden. "What are Avant-Garde Masterpieces?." Literarische Experimente: Medien, Kunst, Texte seit 1950. Ed. Christoph Zeller. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 57-72.

Stephen Dowden and Meike Werner. "The Place of German Modernism." Oxford Handbook of Modern German History. Ed. Helmut Walser Smith. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2011. 481-498.

Steve Dowden. "The Medusa's Gaze: Büchner, Tolstoy, Kafka." Christian Psychology: The Formation of Souls. Ed. Susan Harris and Daniel Wilbrand. Charlottestown, Prince Edward Island, Canada: St. Peter Publications, 2010. 159-175.

Dowden, Steve. "The Amphibolical Cunning of Thomas Mann's 'Doktor Faustus'." Amphibolie, Ambiguität, Ambivalenz. Ed. Frauke Berndt and Stefan Kammer. Würzburg: 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, Steve. "untitled." Rev. of Thomas Mann: Der Zauber des Letzten, by Rüdiger Görner. Modern Language Review vol. 101.3 Oct 2007: 309-310.

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.

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