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MATT ERLIN

Associate Professor of German

Phone 314.935.4005, Fax 314.935.7255

merlin@wustl.edu

Matt Erlin is an Associate Professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in German from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000.

Professor Erlin is the author of Berlin’s Forgotten Future: City, History, and Enlightenment In Eighteenth-Century Germany(2004), and the co-editor, together with Lynne Tatlock, of German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Reception, Adaptation, Transformation (2005). He has published articles on variety of topics related to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German culture, from Moses Mendelssohn's philosophy of history to aesthetic politics in Goethe's poetry. His current research investigates the discourse of luxury in the Enlightenment and its relevance for the emergence of new conceptions of literature and aesthetic experience in the period.

Professor Erlin’s teaching and research interests range widely but generally involve the interface between aesthetic theories and practices and the sociopolitical contexts in which they emerge. He also has a strong interest in language pedagogy, especially at the advanced levels. In addition to general courses in German language and culture, he has taught seminars on German poetry, consumer culture and the eighteenth-century novel, Marxist cultural theory, cultural representations of nationalism, and eighteenth-century representations of family life. He also teaches in the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities.

Office Ridgley Hall 423	Mailing Address Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Campus Box 1104 Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Mailbox Ridgley Hall 319

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