Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature at Cornell University, where he is a former Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, George Reed Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, and Director of the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, he has been a recipient of fellowships from the DAAD and ACLS and has served as a member of the Institute for International Education's Fulbright selection committee for creative writing as well as of the steering committee for Cornell's Institute for German Cultural Studies. His current project, following recent work in Arg...