M.A. New York University
Email: rschuman@uci.edu
I was born in Deep Springs, California and raised in Eugene, Oregon. As an undergraduate I studied German and English at Vassar College, and spent several years after graduation living in New York City and working in publishing. I joined our wonderful and rigorous department in 2005. Aside from my dissertation project (In der Sprachkolonie: Franz Kafka’s World and the Limits of Language, which takes a look at some of Kafka’s best known prose through the nontraditional eyes of analytic language philosophy), I enjoy researching the diverse intersections of German-language literature and philosophy, chiefly Wittgenstein but also Kant, Hegel and Heidegger (which makes for a pleasantly antagonistic group). I also enjoy working in earlier epochs, including the Sturm und Drang, on which I have published. Last year (2008-2009) I was lucky enouth to reside as a Junior Fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) in Vienna, Austria, under the dual auspices of the Fulbright program and the IFK. I remain very grateful for this opportunity, and miss my Austrian and German colleages quite a bit—although it is probably better for my blood pressure that I am away from Viennese coffee, which I had trouble consuming in moderation
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