Josh Dittrich
Josh Dittrich
Degrees & Institutions: PhD Cornell University, 2010; MA Cornell University, 2005; BA University of Virginia, 2002
Recent Courses: PWC Courses: Social and Professional Languages (WRI 310); Critical Reading and Listening (WRI 340); Re-Languaging: Writing Across Cultures and Languages (WRI 395)
DVS Courses: Art of the Earlier 20th Century (FAH 288); Visual Culture and Colonialism (VCC 306); Expressionism vs. Dada: Extremes of Modern German Art (FAH 494)
German Courses: Introductory German (GER 100); Intro to German Cultural Studies (GER 150); Intermediate German (GER 300); Culture, Theory, Text (Team-taught graduate seminar, GER 1000)
Selected Publications:
Scholarly Articles:
"The Elasticity of Thought: A Note on the Drive in Worringer and Freud," Culture, Theory & Critique 55.1 (April 2014, forthcoming).
"A Life of Matter and Death: Inorganic Life in Worringer, Deleuze and Guattari," Discourse 33.2 (2011): 242-262.
Reviews:
Peter Horn, Die Garne der Fischer der Irrsee: Zur Lyrik von Paul Celan. Forthcoming in Seminar: Journal of German Studies.
Daniel J. Sherman, French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire 1945-1975. Journal of Contemporary European Studies 20.3 (2012): 401-402.
Claire Alexandre, ed. Stuart Hall and 'Race.' Journal of Contemporary European Studies 20.2 (2012): 230-232.
Research Interests: Josh's research and teaching interests include: modernism in literary and visual arts; theory and practice of translation; and intersections of critical theory, aesthetics, contemporary culture. Josh is currently writing a book on primitivism in German literature and art of the early 20th century.
Research Areas:
Late 19th and early 20th century art and literature
Primitivism and modernism
Critical theory and avant-garde aesthetics in visual and digital culture
Literary translation, translation studies and multilingualism
Contemporary theories of biopolitics and immaterial labor
20th and 21st century poetry and poetics
Film (early film theory; adaptation studies; melodrama; documentary)