Russell Berman

Russell A. Berman (born 1950) is an American professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature. He is the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.^[1] He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.^[2] He is the director of Stanford's Introduction to the Humanities program. He previously served as associate dean and director of Stanford's Overseas Studies Program.^[3]

Biography

Berman was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1972 and completed a doctorate at Washington University in 1979.^[3] Since 1979, Berman has been on the faculty at Stanford University. In 2004, he became the editor of Telos, a quarterly journal of critical theory which has included extensive discussions of the Frankfurt School as well as Carl Schmitt.^[4]

Selected bibliography

• Fiction Sets You Free: On Literature In History (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007)

• Anti-Americanism in Europe: A Cultural Problem (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2004)

• Enlightenment or Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998) - Outstanding Book in German Studies Award of the German Studies Association, 2000.

• Cultural Studies of Modern Germany: History, Representation, and Nationhood (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993)

• Modern Culture and Critical Theory: Art, Politics, and the Legacy of the Frankfurt School (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989)

• The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986) - Outstanding Book in German Studies Award of the German Studies Association, 1988.

• Between Fontane and Tucholsky: Literary Criticism and the Public Sphere in Imperial Germany (New York: Lang, 1983)

• "Culture in the Conservative Revolution: The American Debate." Telos 101, Fall 1994.

References

1. ^ Stanford faculty directory
2. ^ Hoover Institution directory
3. ^ ^{a b} Stanford biography page
4. ^ Telos webpage