Todd KONTJE - Ph.D. (Princeton) EAP Germany FA07-SP08 Primary Office: LIT 327 Primary Phone: (858) 534-2749 (ANS MACHINE) Email: tkontje@ucsd.edu Director: University of California's Education Abroad Program in Germany (2006-08) Todd Kontje received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and has been a member of the Literature Department since 1991, where he is Professor of German and Comparative Literature. Teaching interests include German literature of all periods and contemporary critical theory. He has published books on Schiller’s aesthetics, the German Bildungsroman, and German women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries, and edited a volume of essays on 19th-century German Realism. German Orientalisms considers various manifestations of Orientalism in German literature from the Middle Ages to the present in their distinction from one another and in their contribution to Germany’s sense of national identity. More recent articles have examined the works of E. Marlitt, Sophie Mereau, Gottfried Keller, Günter Grass, and Thomas Mann. Selected Publications: German Orientalisms. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2004. A Companion to German Realism (editor, introduction). Camden House Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2002. Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998. The German Bildungsroman: History of a National Genre. Literary Criticism in Perspective. Columbia, South Carolina: Camden House, 1993. Private Lives in the Public Sphere: The German 'Bildungsroman' as Metafiction. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State Press, 1992. Constructing Reality: A Rhetorical Analysis of Friedrich Schiller's "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Mankind." New York University Ottendorfer Series, 25. New York, Bern, Frankfurt, and Paris: Lang, 1987. Editorial Board: Colloquia Germanica