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Fall 2008
Tu 1:30-2:30 pm
Th 1:30-2:30 pm
Ridgley 328

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LUTZ KOEPNICK

Professor of German, Film and Media Studies

Phone 314.935.4350, Fax 314.935.7255

koepnick@wustl.edu • Website

Lutz Koepnick is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at Washington University. He received a Joint-Ph.D. in 1994 in German Studies and Humanities from Stanford University after studying German Literature, Political Science, and Philosophy in Marburg, Hamburg, Uppsala, St. Louis, and Stanford.

Koepnick has published widely on German literature, film, media, visual culture, new media aesthetic, and intellectual history from the nineteenth to the twenty- first century. He is the author of Framing Attention: Windows on Modern German Culture (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007); The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood (University of California Press, 2002); Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power (University of Nebraska Press, 1999); and of Nothungs Modernität: Wagners Ring und die Poesie der Politik im neunzehnten Jahrhundert (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1994). Koepnick is the co-author of [Grid ‹ › Matrix] / Screen Arts and New Media Aesthetics 1 (2006), and the co- editor of three anthologies on sound in modern German culture, the exile of German visual artists and filmmakers in the United States, and the global connections of postwar German cinema. His current book project is entitled, On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of Delay and Deceleration, a project exploring different strategies of deceleration in various media of twentieth and twenty-first century artistic practice, in particular in photography, film, opera, music, installation and new media art, and prose fiction.

Koepnick’s teaching interests currently focus on twentieth- and twenty -first century German literature and film, visual culture, media history and theory, critical theory and aesthetics. In recent years he has taught graduate courses about beauty and aesthetic theory; about modernism and the aesthetics of motion; about Fritz Lang’s M; about the role of art and culture in National Socialism, Italian fascism, and Stalinism; about Walter Benjamin and contemporary theories of digital culture; about American Film Noir; about German film exile in Hollywood; and about Richard Wagner and his twentieth-century legacies. Undergraduate teaching included courses about the aesthetics of the interface and the Frankfurt School; about German and World cinema; about literary theory and discourses on music; as well as about Weimar culture and contemporary Germany.

Office Ridgley Hall 328	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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