Kai EversAssistant Professor, German |
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Research Interests |
Modernism, Catastrophic Imagination, 20th century literature, film, and theory, | |
| Appointments | Visiting Assistant Professor, Middlebury College, Vermont (2002-2004) | |
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Research Abstract |
Kai Evers’ research focuses on the intersection of violence and modernity. His work develops an understanding of modernism that undercuts the opposition between, on one side, a fascist and reactionary modernism that sanctions violence and, on the other, a modernism proper that declares itself to be anti-violent. In his dissertation, he developed distinct models of modernist responses to violence through close readings of writings by Musil, Kafka, Benjamin, and Canetti, authors whose works are imaginatively bound to the excess of violence in World War I. His current research involves reading post-World War II modernist literature through the lens of violence. He has published on Weiss, Jahnn, and Johnson. Together with James Rolleston he published an English edition of Peter Weiss’ The New Trial (Duke University Press, 2001). | |
| Publications |
He has published on Weiss, Jahnn, and Johnson. Together with James Rolleston he published an English edition of Peter Weiss’ The New Trial (Duke University Press, 2001). Recent publications include: “Monological versus Dialogical Remembrance: Gert Neumann’s Novel Anschlag in the Context of the Walser-Bubis Controversy” (Germanic Review, 2005) “The Holes of Oblivion: Arendt and Benjamin’s Theories of Story-Telling in the Age of Totalitarian Domination,” (Telos, Fall 2005) |
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Professional Society |
GSA, MLA, ACLA |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5332 | |
| Last updated | 10/24/2007 | |