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Andreas Huyssen
is the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is one of the founding editors of New German Critique, the leading journal of German Studies in the United States, and he serves on the editorial boards of October, Constellations, Germanic Review, Transit, Key Words, and Critical Space (Tokyo). In 2005, he won Columbia’s Mark van Doren teaching award.
Huyssen's books include Drama des Sturm und Drang (1980); After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (1986); Postmoderne: Zeichen eines kulturellen Wandels (ed. with Klaus Scherpe, 1986); Modernity and the Text: Revisions of German Modernism (ed. with David Bathrick, 1989); Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (1995); Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (2003), and the forthcoming edited volume on the culture of non-Western cities entitled Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing World (Duke UP, 2008).Eurozine Articles
The Armenian genocide: Issues of responsibility and democracy
An interview with Susan Neiman and Andreas Huyssen
Two public intellectuals discuss the role of the public sphere in guiding a politics of memory in relation to Turkey's fraught Armenian issue. [Catalan version added] [more]
13.02.2007