German and Russian Studies @ the

University of Missouri
451 Strickland Hall | Columbia, MO 65211-4170
email: grs@missouri.edu | phone: 573-882-4328 | fax: 573-884-8456

Faculty | Strathausen

Carsten Strathausen

Associate Professor of German and English
and Department Chair
Education: Ph.D., 1995, University of Oregon
Office: 451 Strickland Hall
Phone: 884-2835
Email: strathausenc@missouri.edu
Web: web.missouri.edu/~strathausenc
Curriculum vita (Word)

Research

My research focuses mainly on the relationship between words and images from 1800 to the present, but I have also published on 20th-century political philosophy and literary theory. Over the last years, I have become increasingly interested in the history of science and the influence of technology on Western culture. I am currently working on a project about the aesthetics of New Media.

Teaching

In the German department, I typically teach a graduate seminar on Expressionism and/or the Avantgarde movement as well as introductory courses on German literature. As a member of the English Department, I teach a required course for all graduate students on either Classical or Contemporary Literary Theory. I have also taught a broad variety of specialized undergraduate seminars in the Honors College and the Film Studies Program.

The Look of Things:
Poetry and Vision around 1900
also available from Amazon

Publications

Books

A Leftist Ontology. Ed. and intro. by Carsten Strathausen. Preface by William E. Connolly (University of Minnesota Press). 280 pages. Forthcoming 2008.

The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision around 1900 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).

Articles

"Going Nowhere: Sebald's Rhizomatic Travels." Searching For Sebald. Photography After W. G. Sebald, ed. Lise Patt (Los Angeles, 2007). 472-91.

"A Critique of Neo-Left Ontology." Postmodern Culture 16.3 (Fall 2006).

"A Rebel Against Hermeneutics: On the Presence of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht." Theory & Event 9.1 (2006).

"Moving On: Phil Goldstein’s Post-Marxist Theory." The Minnesota Review 65-66 (Fall / Spring 2006): 177-84.

"Adorno, or, The End of Aesthetics." Globalizing Critical Theory, ed. Max Pensky (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). 221-40.

"The Badiou-Event." Polygraph 17 (2005); special edition on "The Philosophy of Alain Badiou," ed. Matthew Wilkens. 239-57.

"Brecht’s Corpus." Communications 34 (Summer 2005): 52-4.

"Facing Zizek." The Minnesota Review 61-62 (2004): 239-46.

"Against Marxist Doxa." theory@buffalo 9 (2004): 121-56.

"The Lost Gaze: Reflections on the Photography of Andreas Gursky." Genre 36, ¾ (Fall/Winter 2003): 341-64.

"Of Circles and Riddles: Stefan George and the Language-Crisis around 1900." The German Quarterly 76/4 (Fall 2003): 411-25.

"Cyborgian Visions, Uncanny Spaces: The City in Ruttmann and Vertov," Screening the City, ed. Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice (Verso, 2003). 15-40.

"The Image as Abyss: The Cinematic Sublime in the Mountain Film," Peripheral Visions. The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema, ed. Kenneth S. Calhoon (Detroit: Wayne State, 2001). 171-189.

"Benjamin’s Aura, or: the Broken Heart of Modernity," The Institute of Cultural Inquiry; special edition on Benjamin’s Blind Spot, ed. Lise Patt (2001). 1-14.

"The Return of the Gaze: Stereoscopic Vision in Jünger and Benjamin," New German Critique 80 (Spring/Summer 2000): 125-48.

"Eichendorff's Das Marmorbild and the Demise of Romanticism," New Readings in Romanticism, ed. Martha Helfer (Amsterdam: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur Germanistik, 2000) 367-88.

"Nazi Aesthetics," Renaissance and Modern Studies 42 (1999); special issue on Fascist Aesthetics, ed. Greg Hainge. 5-19.

"Brechts Kleinbürgerhochzeit: Ein Beispiel für Drama in DaF," co-authored with Gerd Bräuer, Zielsprache Deutsch 2/95 (June 1995) 94-100.

"Althusser's Mirror," Studies in Twentieth Century Literature 18/1 (Winter 1994) 58-71.