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German & Scandinavian Studies, Deparment of Languages and Literatures

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Robert C. Holub

Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Professor of German & Scandinavian Studies

Contact Information

Location: Whitmore Administration Building
Phone: (413) 545-2211
Email: chancellor[at]umass.edu
http://www.umass.edu/chancellor

Education

Ph.D. 1979, University of Wisconsin Madison
M.A. 1976, University of Wisconsin Madison (German Literature)
M.A. 1974, University of Wisconsin Madison (Comparative Literature)
B.A. 1971, University of Pennsylvania

Selected Recent Publications

Books

  • Heine’s Contested Identities: Politics, Religion, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany.  New York: Lang, 1999.  (co-editor)
  • Responsibility and Commitment: Ethische Posulate der Kulturvermittlung: Festschrift für Jost Hermand.  Frankfurt: Lang, 1996.  (co-editor)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche.  Twayne World Author Series 857.  New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. 
  • Impure Reason: Dialectic of Enlightenment in Germany.  Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993. 
  • Crossing Borders: Reception Theory, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction.  Madison: Univer­sity of Wisconsin Press, 1992.  244 pp.
  • Jürgen Habermas: Critic in the Public Sphere.  London: Routledge, 1991.  210 pp. Published as e-book in Taylor & Francis e-library, 2001.  482 pp. (Translations: Persian 1996, Chinese forthcoming)

Articles

  • “Heine zur Jüdischen Emanzipation in Lutezia.”  Zu Heinrich Heines Spätwerk  “Lutezia”: Kunstcharakter und europäischer Kontext.  Ed. Arnold Pistiak and Julia Rintz.  Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2007.  229-47.
  • “Dialectic of the Biological Enlightenment: Nietzsche, Degeneration, and Eugenics.” Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment.  Festschrift for John McCarthy.   Ed. Richard Schade and Dieter Sevin.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.  173-85.
  • “Methodology in the Social Sciences: The Positivist Debate.”  (Chapter 2 in A7) (To be published in Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences, ed. Malcolm Williams.)
  • “Nietzsche and the Paradigm of Influence Studies: A Review Article.”  Modern Language Review 100.4 (October 2005): 1062-73.
  • “Nietzsche: Socialist, Anarchist, Feminist.” German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Reception, Adaptation, Transformation.  Ed. Lynne Tatlock and Matt Erlin.  Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2005.  129-49.
  • “Heine’s ‘Mädchen und Frauen’: Women and Emancipation in the Writings of Heinrich Heine.”  From Goethe to Gide: Feminism, Aesthetics and the French and German Literary Canon 1770-1930.  Ed. Mary Orr and Lesley Sharpe.  Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2005.  80-96.
  • “Heine and the Dialectic of Jewish Emancipation.”  “. . . und die Welt ist so lieblich verworren”: Heinrich Heines dialektisches Denken.  Festschrift for Joseph A. Kruse.  Ed. Bernd Kortländer and Sikander Singh.  Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2004.  229-47.
  • “Literary Controversy: Naming and Framing the Post-Romantic, Pre-Realist Period.”  Camden House History of German Literature.   Vol. 9, Literature of the Nineteenth Century.  Ed. Clayton Koelb and Eric Downing.  Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2005.  93-114.