Fred Ulfers. The Utopia and Essayism of Robert Musil. 2007 4/4

www.egs.edu Fred Friedrich Ulfers Open video lecture at European Graduate School, EGS Media and Communications Program Studies Department, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe. Fred Friedrich Ulfers. Friedrich Ulfers is Associate Professor of German at New York University. Over the years he has served a variety of administrative functions, such as the Department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of the NYU in Berlin summer program and, most recently, Director of Deutsches Haus at NYU. Winner of NYU’s Distinguished Teaching Medal and Great Teacher Award, and three times winner of the College of Arts and Science’s Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching, he has taught not only in the German Department but also in NYU’s interdisciplinary programs, offering courses that engage a range of interdisciplinary interests, including literary theory, continental philosophy, and the relationships between science, literature, and philosophy. His specific teaching and research interests are German Romanticism and 19th/20th German literature (with particular emphasis on Nietzsche and Kafka). Friedrich Ulfers also serves as a professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches an intensive Summer Seminar on Nietzsche and 20th-Century Thought. He is Senator of, and serves as Secretary of the American Council for, the school. He has written widely on 20th-century authors for a variety of venues and journals. His publications include …
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