Adrian Daub (born 1980 in

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) is a German

literary scholar Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. T ...

and Professor of

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and

Comparative Literature Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role similar to that of the study ...

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, who has served as the Director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and serves as the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute at Stanford.

Life and career

Daub received a

B.A. Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four yea ...

from

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ...

in 2003 before completing an

M.A. A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...

and

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

. His dissertation dealt with the marriage philosophies in German Romanticism and

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and was under the direction of

Liliane Weissberg Liliane Weissberg (born 1953) is an American literary scholar and cultural historian specializing in German-Jewish studies and German and American literature. She is currently the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Scienc ...

. Daub was an assistant professor of German (2008-2013) and associate professor of German (2013-2016) at Stanford and was appointed full Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature in 2016. At Stanford, he served as the Director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2016-2020) and, since 2019, has served as the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute at Stanford. Daube has been the co-editor of the Goethe Yearbook and General Editor of Republics of Letters – A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts. Daube's scholarship focuses on the history of German literature, culture, and intellectual life since 1790,

German Idealism German idealism was a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

and German Romanticism, philosophy, gender and sexuality, German literature and

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since the end of World War II, music and German modernism, operas of the

fin de siècle () is a French term meaning "end of century,” a phrase which typically encompasses both the meaning of the similar English idiom "turn of the century" and also makes reference to the closing of one era and onset of another. Without context ...

, the

Frankfurt School The Frankfurt School (german: Frankfurter Schule) is a school of social theory and critical philosophy associated with the Institute for Social Research, at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1929. Founded in the Weimar Republic (1918–1933), dur ...

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

and literature, and

collective memory Collective memory refers to the shared pool of memories, knowledge and information of a social group that is significantly associated with the group's identity. The English phrase "collective memory" and the equivalent French phrase "la mémoire c ...

Bibliography (selected works)

Books

*„Zwillingshafte Gebärden“: Zur kulturellen Wahrnehmung des vierhändigen Klavierspiels im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-3894-5 *Uncivil unions: The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism & Romanticism. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2012, ISBN 978-0-226-13693-6 *''Tristan's Shadow: Sexuality and the Total Work of Art after Wagner.'' Chicago University Press, Chicago 2013, ISBN 978-0-226-08213-4 *''Four-Handed Monsters: Four-Hand Piano Playing and Nineteenth-Century Culture.'' Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-998177-9 *with Charles Kronengold: ''The James Bond Songs: Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism.'' Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-023455-3 *''Pop Up Nation: Innenansichten aus dem Silicon Valley.'' Hanser, München 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25376-6 *''Was das Valley denken nennt. Über die Ideologie der Techbranche.'' Suhrkamp, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-12750-6

Articles

*"Adorno's Schreker: Charting the self-dissolution of the distant sound." Cambridge Opera Journal 18, no. 3 (2006): 247-271. *"Mother Mime: Siegfried, the Fairy Tale, and the Metaphysics of Sexual Difference." 19th-century Music 32, no. 2 (2008): 160-177. *"" HANNAH, CAN YOU HEAR ME?"—CHAPLIN'S" GREAT DICTATOR"," SCHTONK," AND THE VICISSITUDES OF VOICE." Criticism 51, no. 3 (2009): 451-482. *"From Maximin to Stonewall: Sexuality and the Afterlives of the George Circle." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 87, no. 1 (2012): 19-34. *"“An All-Too-Secret Wagner”: Ernst Bloch the Wagnerian." The Opera Quarterly 30, no. 2-3 (2014): 188-204. *"HERMANN NITSCH–AUSTRIA IN THE AGE OF POST‐SCANDALOUS CULTURE." German Life and Letters 67, no. 2 (2014): 260-278. *with Elisabeth Bronfen. "Broomhilda Unchained: Tarantino’s Wagner." The Wagner Journal 9, no. 2 (2015): 55-67.

References

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