Johannes Türk
Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Ph.D 2006, Freie Universität Berlin
E-mail: joturk@indiana.edu
About Johannes:
Johannes Türk joined the department after completing his Ph.D at Freie Universität Berlin in 2006. He studied at Freie Universität Berlin, Paris 8 (Paris-Vincennes), and Yale University. In his work, he embeds German topics into a comparative perspective rooted in the classical traditions of rhetoric, aesthetics and poetics as well as in the tradition of continental philosophy. His book on the archeology of the term immunity from the Roman law to the biomedical sciences is concerned with the formation of knowledge and tries to contribute to and define a culture of immunology. He teaches a wide range of topics from German cultural history from Charlemagne to the First World War to more specialized graduate courses on nostos and nostalgia in the German literary tradition, on literature and the life sciences, temporality in the novel, eighteenth century literature and thought as well as on literary theory. Although he incorporates other literary genres, his major interest lies in the history of the German and the European novel. His current projects comprise emotional memory, ethics and politics of empathy, figures of the political body and the rhetorical trope topography.
Publications
Monographs:
Immunität. Archäologie eines Paradigmas der Moderne, under review.
Edited Volumes:
„Figures and Figurations of the (Un-)Dead“, Robert Buch / Johannes Türk (eds.), Special issue of Germanic Review, Volume 82, Number 2, Spring 2007.
Articles:
„Die >Zukunft< der Immunologie. Eine politische Form des 21. Jahrhunderts“, in: Claus Pias ed., Abwehr. Modelle - Strategien – Medien, Bielefeld: transcript 2008.
„Interruptions: Scenes of Empathy from Aristotle to Proust”, special issue of DVjS, to be published Fall 2008.
„The Intrusion: Carl Schmitt's Non-Mimetic Logic of Art“, Telos, number 142, Spring 2008.
„Homo immunis. Geburt und Topologie des Modernen Menschen in der Immunologie.” In: Breger / Krüger-Fürhoff / Nusser eds. Engineering Life. Narrationen vom Menschen in Biomedizin, Kultur und Literatur, Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2008, pp. 71-88.
„Rituals of Dying, Burrows of Anxiety in Freud, Proust and Kafka. Prolegomena to a Critical Immunology,” Germanic Review , Volume 82, Number 2 (Spring 2007), pp. 141-156.
„The Trouble with Being German.” N+1 4 (Spring 2006), “Reconstruction”: 17-20.
„Freuds Immunologien des Psychischen.“ Poetica 38.1-2 (2006): 167-188.
“‘Die Taktik der inneren Linie:’ Performativity in Discourse on Trauma and in Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften.” Duttlinger, Carolin, Lucia Ruprecht, and Andrew Webber, eds. Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2003. 67-82.
Reviews:
Zeitungslektüre im “Mann ohne Eigenschaften”, Musil-Studien Band 36, by Hermann Bernauer, to be published in GR 2008.
The Juridical Unconscious, by Shoshana Felman. Poetica 35.3-4 (2003): 459-465.
Translation:
Trans. Vattimo, Gianni. “Begleitumstände.” Derrrida, Jacques, and Gianni Vattimo, eds. Die Religion. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2001: 7-8.
