Jeffrey Wallen, professor of comparative literature and Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies (HACU) from 2012-15, received an A.B. from Stanford University in comparative literature, an M.A. in English from Columbia University, and an M.A. in French and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n
He has also taught as a visiting professor at the Free University Berlin and at the University of Toulouse, and has been the director of Hampshire’s semester-long study abroad program. He has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century European literature; on biography and literary portraiture; on testimony, Holocaust literature, and Berlin Jewish history; and on debates about education.\u00a0 His book Closed Encounters: Literary Politics and Public Culture<\/i> was published by the University of Minnesota Press.<\/p>\n
Some of his most recent publications are “Au Seuil, entre la vie et la morte” (in Traces de vie \u00e0 Auschwitz: Un Manuscript clandestin)<\/em>, “Facing the Sonderkommando<\/em>: Son of Saul<\/em> and the Dynamics of Witnessing,” “Circuitous Journeys: The Migration of Objects and the Trusteeship of Memory,” “The Witness Against the Archive: Towards a Microhistory of Christianstadt,” “Beckett in Time of Crisis,” “Testimony and Taboo: The Perverse Writings of Ka-Tzetnik 135633,” “The Lure of the Archive: The Atlas Projects of Walid Raad,” “Migrant Visions: The Scheunenviertel and Boyle Heights, Los Angeles,” \u201cTwemlow\u2019s Abyss,\u201d “Narrative Tensions: The Eyewitness and the Archive,\u201d “Falling Under an Evil Influence,” “The Death and Discontents of Theory,” \u201cFrom the Archives\u201d (co-written with Arnold Dreyblatt), and “Sociable Robots <\/i>und das Posthumane.”<\/p>\n He is currently working on a study of the archive in contemporary thought and art.<\/p>\n His teaching interests include 19th- and 20th-century comparative literature (German, French, British), critical theory, Holocaust Studies, Victorian Studies, Modernism, Jewish Studies, psychoanalysis, and philosophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeffrey Wallen, professor of comparative literature and Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies (HACU) from 2012-15, received an A.B. from Stanford University in comparative literature, an M.A. in English from Columbia University, and an M.A. in French and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Johns Hopkins University. He has also taught […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/jwallen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/jwallen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/jwallen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/jwallen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/jwallen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/jwallen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/jwallen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/jwallen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}