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John Hoffmann
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John Hoffmann
Candidate statement
Lecturer, Philipps-Universität Marburg
I am a lecturer at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, and this fall I’ll be moving to Chapman University as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and the Humanities. My first book Modernism, Aesthetics and Anthropology (Cambridge, forthcoming) is a fairly interdisciplinary affair that studies the emergence of concepts such as “race” and “Volk” in aesthetic theory and the arts from the German Enlightenment to World War II. My work ranges between literature and film, and I’ve published articles in Film History, Modernism/ modernity, New Literary History and elsewhere. I’m also the founder and current co-organizer of the Film Studies SIG, which has now grown to over 100 members. As Interdisciplinary Chair, I would be eager to support the current SIGs while looking to add new groups as a way of encouraging interdisciplinary offerings at the MSA. One possibility would be an Art History SIG, which would complement the Film SIG by bringing more visual arts to the conference. Finally, I would look forward to collaborating with other board members. My years in Germany would allow me to work with the International Rep, and I would be keen to help the Contingent Faculty Rep encourage non-tenure-track scholars.
I am a lecturer at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, and this fall I’ll be moving to Chapman University as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and the Humanities. My first book Modernism, Aesthetics and Anthropology (Cambridge, forthcoming) is a fairly interdisciplinary affair that studies the emergence of concepts such as “race” and “Volk” in aesthetic theory and the arts from the German Enlightenment to World War II. My work ranges between literature and film, and I’ve published articles in Film History, Modernism/ modernity, New Literary History and elsewhere. I’m also the founder and current co-organizer of the Film Studies SIG, which has now grown to over 100 members. As Interdisciplinary Chair, I would be eager to support the current SIGs while looking to add new groups as a way of encouraging interdisciplinary offerings at the MSA. One possibility would be an Art History SIG, which would complement the Film SIG by bringing more visual arts to the conference. Finally, I would look forward to collaborating with other board members. My years in Germany would allow me to work with the International Rep, and I would be keen to help the Contingent Faculty Rep encourage non-tenure-track scholars.
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