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German and Russian Studies @ the  University of Missouri451 Strickland Hall | Columbia, MO 65211-4170 email: grs@missouri.edu | phone: 573-882-4328 | fax: 573-884-8456 |
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Faculty | Engelstein
Stefani Engelstein
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Associate Professor of German Curriculum vita (pdf) In addition to my position in the German Department, I am also the Director of the Life Sciences & Society Program. ResearchMy research focuses on German and British literature and the life sciences in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. I explore shifting representations of the body in disciplines such as literature, natural history, and aesthetics, and also investigate the emerging sciences that began to map human population diversity at this time such as racial theories and philology. I am interested in the significance of these shifts for emerging theories of human subjectivity, gender, volition, ethical behavior, and political organization. At the moment I am working on a book called Sibling Logic: Incest, Collective Identity, and the Subject, in which I suggest that, beginning in the late eighteenth century, the sibling relationship was used as a paradigmatic figure for working through issues of subjectivity and emerging collective identities in political, racial, linguistic, religious, and psychological discourses. Unlike later psychoanalytic models based on vertical lineage, sibling logic provides a potential basis for envisioning a more nuanced, multiply mediated subjectivity that accords with a networked embedment in the political world. It is because of these political implications that sibling relations and their corollary lateral affiliations became so central in the late-eighteenth century age of cultural encounter and political turmoil. My 2008 book Anxious Anatomy: The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse (SUNY; http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61639 ) explores debates at the turn of the 19th century surrounding the human form – its reproduction, its maiming through injury and amputation, and its supplementation with prosthetics. These concerns not only dominated natural history, but informed a variety of interrelated discourses such as surgery, art, aesthetics, and literature. Anxious Anatomy traces the transformation of the concept of teleology from a principle in natural history necessary for understanding reproduction, into a rationalization for using the biological sciences to ground ideologies in the body – from theories of subjectivity, race, and gender, to support for republican revolution and social hierarchies. The book provides a timely and compelling cultural history as well as provocative new interpretations of works by Goethe, Blake, Kleist, Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, and Austen. View "Visions of Transparency: The Human Body and Social Order," my Opening Lecture for the University of Missouri Libraries Rare Books & Special Collections exhibit, "Controlling Heredity: The American Eugenics Crusade 1870-1940" March 8, 2011. I founded and edit the German Studies Calls-for-Papers List which provides a forum for Calls for Papers in all areas related to the field of German Studies as well as on interdisciplinary and comparative topics. Life Sciences & Society Program DirectorshipThe LSSP facilitates interdisciplinary research, coordinates courses on life science/society intersections, hosts an annual symposium that brings scholars of international renown to campus, and collaborates with the community. The 8th annual Life Sciences & Society Symposium, Food Sense," will take place on the MU campus on March 16-18, 2012. The symposium will investigate how our taste for food is shaped by biological triggers, cultural norms, economic activity, and social surroundings. The symposium will feature food journalists, taste and food scientists, and experts in nutrition and in food culture. Keynote: Brian Wansink, best-selling author of Mindless Eating. I also coordinated the previous 3 LSSP Symposia. The 7th annual Life Sciences & Society Symposium, Ethics & the Brain, March 18-20, 2011 featured researchers from the fields of neuroscience, law, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and theology to discuss the implications of introducing brain imaging technology into the criminal justice system. TeachingCourses I teach include Graduate Courses Sibling Incest and Literature Undergraduate Courses Capstone Seminar: German-Jewish Culture through Literature Recent PublicationsBooksAnxious Anatomy: The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse. From SUNY Press. Series: Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. Hard Cover 2008. Paperback 2009. Contemplating Violence: Critical Studies in Modern German Culture. Co-editor with Carl Niekerk. Rodopi Press. 2011. Articles“One Sex, Two Sex, Red Sex, Blue Sex: The American Same-Sex Marriage Debate as an Aftereffect of Eighteenth-century Science and Politics.” In progress “Coining a Discipline: Lessing, Reimarus, and a Science of Religion.” Fact and Fiction: Literature and Science in the European Context. Ed. Christine Lehleiter. Advance Contract with University of Toronto Press “Siblings.” Revolver Kino: The New Independent Cinema of Germany and Austria. Ed. Roger Cook, Lutz Koepnick, Kristin Kopp, and Brad Prager. Forthcoming with Intellect Books. “Civic Attachments & Sibling Attractions: The Shadows of Fraternity.” (Presidential Address of the Goethe Society of North America, 2009.) The Goethe Yearbook.18 (2011): 205-221 “Sibling Logic or Antigone Again.” PMLA.126.1 (Jan 2011): 38-54 Introduction. “Violence, Culture, Aesthetics: Germany 1789-1938.” Co-written with Carl Niekerk. Contemplating Violence: Critical Studies in Modern German Culture. Ed. Stefani Engelstein and Carl Niekerk. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 79. Rodopi Press. 2011. 13-32. “The Father in Fatherland: Violent Ideology and Corporeal Paternity in Kleist.” Contemplating Violence: Critical Studies in Modern German Culture. Ed. Stefani Engelstein and Carl Niekerk. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 79. Rodopi Press. 2011. 49-66. “The Open Wound of Beauty: Kafka Reading Kleist.” The Germanic Review. 81.4. (Fall 2006): 340-359. Sibling Incest and Cultural Voyeurism in Günderode’s Udohla and Thomas Mann’s Wälsungenblut. The German Quarterly. Forthcoming. 77.3 (July 2004) Reproductive Machines in E.T.A. Hoffmann. Body Dialectics in the Age of Goethe. Ed. Holger Pausch and Marianne Henn. Rodopi Press. 2003. 169-193. The Regenerative Geography of the Text in William Blake. Modern Language Studies. 30.2 (Fall 2000): 61-86. Out on a Limb: Military Medicine, Heinrich von Kleist and the Disarticulated Body. German Studies Review. 23.2 (May 2000): 225-244. [Winner of the 2001 Article Prize for an Outstanding Article, awarded by the DAAD and the German Studies Association.] |
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