User:Anthony Krupp

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Welcome to my page. I am an educator residing in Coral Gables, FL. I am currently seeking employment as a high school teacher of various subjects: English, German, History, and/or Humanities. (Check out what my university students have said about me at ratemyprofessors.com.) Feel free to contact me at anthonykrupp @ gmail.com.

Contents 1 Teaching awards 2 Book publications 3 Article publications 4 Music

[edit] Teaching awards

In the past six years, I have received three teaching awards. I am particularly gratified that two of them were based on student nominations:

Innovative Course Design Award, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (2006)

Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Miami (2006)

Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Miami Greek Community (2002)

For an example of a syllabus, an essay on teaching philosophy, and a video recording on teaching techniques, click on the previous links.

[edit] Book publications

(1) I have authored a book manuscript called Reason's Children. Childhood in Early Modern Philosophy. It will be published in early 2009 as one of The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. According to reviewers, my book will contribute to three different fields of scholarship (the history of childhood, the history of philosophy, and eighteenth-century studies):

"Looking anew at familiar texts and introducing a wealth of material that will be unfamiliar to most English-language readers, Krupp explores how early modern philosophers grappled with the challenges that children, lacking reason, posed to thought in the 'age of reason.' His scrupulous readings yield a major contribution to the history of childhood."

-James Schultz, author of The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350

"One must be grateful for a book like Reason’s Children that combines erudition and elegance, wit and humane feeling, ingenuity and insight. It is the child not of fashion, but of painstaking scholarship and sound judgment. Anthony Krupp confidently guides his reader through uncharted terrain, pointing out discovery after discovery along the way. Where we formerly imagined there to be only desert, a garden now teems with ideas. Krupp’s concise and yet abundant study will be considered indispensable to eighteenth-century studies for years to come."

-David E. Wellbery, LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, University of Chicago

"The place of childhood in the thinking of major philosophers has not been much appreciated, or even well understood.. Anthony Krupp’s Childhood in Early Modern Philosophy makes a major contribution toward remedying the situation. His carefully researched study expands our understanding of what John Locke has to say about children. Moreover, in surveying the role of children in the thinking of Descartes, Leibniz, Wolff, and Baumgarten, Krupp explores largely virgin territory. This work is an important contribution to the history of modern philosophy and to the relatively new field of childhood studies."

-Gareth B. Matthews, author of The Philosophy of Childhood

My study contains chapters on Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Wolff, and Baumgarten, as well as a translation into English of a text by Pierre Bayle.

(2) I am in the final stages of editing a collection of articles on the works of Karl Philipp Moritz. It will be published by Rodopi Publishers as one of the Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik.

[edit] Article publications

I will gladly email anyone a PDF of any of the following articles:

“Review Essay: Recent Work on Karl Philipp Moritz,” German Quarterly 80.4 (2007): 531-33.

“Cultivation as Maturation: Infants, Children, and Adults in Alexander Baumgarten’s Aesthetica,” Monatshefte 98.4 (2006): 524-38.

“Observing Children in an Early Journal of Psychology: Karl Philipp Moritz’s Gnothi sauton (Know Thyself),” Fashioning Childhood in the Eighteenth Century: Age and Identity, ed. Anja Müller (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), 33-42.

“Das Gehen als Grundfigur bei Karl Philipp Moritz,” Karl Philipp Moritz in Berlin 1786-1793, ed. Christof Wingertszahn and Ute Tintemann (Laatzen: Wehrhahn, 2005), 215-32.

“Großer Dankchoral, Op. 5” and “Notes on the Krupp/Brecht Großer Dankchoral,” Brecht Yearbook 30 (2005): 353-61.

“1865, Summer: Unruly Children. Wilhelm Busch publishes Max und Moritz, a forerunner of the comics that would become one of Germany’s most popular books.” A New History of German Literature, ed. David E. Wellbery (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), 608-14.

“Other Relations: the Pre-History of le moi and (das) Ich in Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Philipp Moritz, and Johann Gottlieb Fichte,” Goethe Yearbook 11 (2002): 111-31.

[edit] Music

I have much interest and some competence, both practical and theoretical, in performing and analyzing common practice (tonal) music, especially that of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Eisler. I regret that the rich tradition of German art music is often neglected in the teaching of German Studies, and have tried to remedy this situation locally. I recently studied tonal and atonal counterpoint under the direction of Paul Wilson, and composed several passacaglias, fugues, and canons in the process. (I will gladly email them to anyone, but note that the WAV files are quite large.)