RÜDIGER CAMPE is Professor and Chair of the German Department at Johns Hopkins University. He received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg and the Habilitation in 2000 from the University Gesamthochschule of Essen (Germany). He has taught German and Comparative Literature as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Literature and Language of the University of Essen 1986-1988 and again 1990-1996; he was a Mellon fellow at the Johns Hopkins University 1988-1990, a visiting fellow of the Graduiertenkolleg at the European University Frankfurt/Oder 1996-1998 and a visiting professor at the German Department of New York University in the spring 2000. He is the author of "Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit. Literatur und Berechnung zwischen Pascal und Kleist" (2002) and "Affekt und Ausdruck. Zur Umwandlung der literarischen Rede im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert" (1990). Dr. Campe has also written recent articles on theory and history of rhetoric and aesthetics, on representation in law and science, and on Baroque theatre and the aesthetics of the modern novel. Dr. Campe has received grants of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 2002 he received the Award of the Aby Warburg Foundation for his work in cultural philosophy and analysis.
Selected Publications:
Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit. Literatur und Berechnung von Pascal bis Kleist, Goettingen, 2002.
Geschichten der Physiognomik. Text/Bild/Wissen, ed. with Manfred Schneider, Freiburg: Rombach, 1996.
Affekt und Ausdruck. Zur Umwandlung der literarischen Rede im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1990.
Kafkas Institutionenroman. Der Process, Das Schloss, in Campe, Niehaus, ed., Gesetz. Ironie, 2004.
"Affizieren und Selbstaffizieren", in: Kopperschmidt (ed.): Rhetorische Anthropologie, München: Fink, 2000.
"Musical Automata and the Speaking Machine in E.T.A. Hoffmann and Others", in: Tötösy de Zepetnek, Dimi (ed.), Comparative Literature Now, Paris: Champion, 1999.
