| Name |
KEPPLER-TASAKI Stefan / KEPPLER-TASAKI Stefan
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| Degree |
Dr. phil. |
| Occupation |
Professor |
| Biography |
Before joining UTokyo in 2012, he was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung from 1993 to 2003, assistant professor at the University of Würzburg from 2002 to 2005 and at the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) from 2005 to 2008, finally junior professor at the FUB from 2008 to 2012. He is a member of FUB’s cluster of excellence “Temporal Communities” and of UCD’s “Migration and Aesthetics” project. Distinctions include a Thomas Mann Fellowship of the German federal government. |
| Affiliation |
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology / Faculty of Letters, Department of German
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| Affiliation site URL |
http://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/index.html |
| Research outline |
Focusing on the writings of Goethe and of German exiles and guided particularly by intellectual history, he examines designs of individual and collective identity in literature as well as cultural connections between Germany, Japan and the US. He authored four books, edited and co-edited eleven other books and is a co-founder of the book series Weltliteraturen / World Literatures (De Gruyter), Rezeptionskulturen (Königshausen & Neumann), and Asia, Europe, and Global Connections (Routledge). |
| Specialty |
Modern German Literature |
| Keywords related to research themes |
Goethe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, Bertolt Brecht, German literature in California, Goethe in Japan, intellectual history, discourses of identity |
| Research achievement URL |
www.keppler-tasaki.com |
