Carol Jacobs

Literaturwissenschaft/ Komparatistik, New Haven
Aufenthalt: 01.10.2010–30.09.2011

Vita

She received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in Comparative Literature. Before teaching at Yale she taught as professor of Comparative Literature and English at SUNY Buffalo, and as professor of German at Johns Hopkins and NYU. She teaches literary, philosophical and theoretical texts that range from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. She has written on Lessing, Kleist, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Rilke, Sophocles, and the English Romantics, among others.
Her early books explore theories of authorship and authority, both literary and political, and their relation to issues of language, truth and knowledge. More recently she has written on representation and time in relation to narrative, and on the writings of Walter Benjamin. Her most recent book is a meditation on the relationship between language and ethics that considers texts from classical Greek to contemporary cinema (Sophocles, Plato, Hamann, Sebald, Campion).
She has been the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the ACLS, the Camargo Foundation and other awards.

 

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Literary, philosophical and theoretical texts that range from the 18th to the 20th century, including Lessing, Kleist, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Rilke, Sophocles, and the English Romantics.

 

Publikationen (Auswahl)

  • The Dissimulating Harmony, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
  • Uncontainable Romanticism, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
  • Telling Time, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
  • In the Language of Walter Benjamin, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
  • Skirting the Ethical (Sophocles, Plato, Hamann, Campion, Sebald), Stanford University), 2008.