Bartscherer previously taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. He has received fellowships from the DAAD, and from the Woodrow Wilson, Nef, and Earhart foundations. He is a research associate on the Équipe Nietzsche at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (Paris) and has held research fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure, the University of Heidelberg, and the LMU in Munich. He is co-editor of Erotikon: Essays on Eros Ancient and Modern with Shadi Bartsch and Switching Codes with Roderick Coover, both from the University of Chicago Press. He also writes on technology, new media, and contemporary art, and has published translations from German and French. Bartscherer works on the intersection of literature and philosophy in the ancient Greek and modern German traditions, focusing on tragic drama, aesthetics, and performance. × Thomas Bartscherer Primary Academic Program: LiteratureĪcademic Program Affiliation(s): Classical Studies, First-Year Seminar, Philosophyī.A., University of Pennsylvania M.A., Ph. Thomas Wild serves as general editor on the distinguished international team preparing the first scholarly edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works, which appears in print and digitally, presenting all published and unpublished writings of this eminent thinker in the original English and in the original German – a project providing the foundation for future research on Hannah Arendt, digital humanities, and what it means to think in a plurality of languages. Poetry is an interlocutor in most of his courses and in many of his publications, among the latter are a collection of poems by Thomas Brasch and translations of contemporary American poets. Several editions of letters emerged from Thomas Wild’s ongoing intrigue for correspondences and intellectual networks, including prominent writers such as Uwe Johnson, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, and Joachim Fest. His most recent book on the distinguished poet Ilse Aichinger discusses a contemporary poetics of hospitality. Thomas Wild has published an introductory book on Hannah Arendt’s life, work, and reception and a monograph on Hannah Arendt’s intellectual relationships with post-war writers. A current focus of his work addresses the poetics and ethics of multilingualism.
In his research as well as in his teaching he’s particularly interested in the intersections between literature and history, politics, and philosophy.
Thomas Wild, Associate Professor of German Studies and Literature, works on modern European and German literature and culture. Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Literature First Year Seminar Hannah Arendt Center