Maximilian Gindorf, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor of German

My research areas are 19th and early 20th century German literature, literary theory, and philosophy, with a focus on German-American interactions and anarchism.  I work specifically on Emerson and Nietzsche and German-speaking anarchists abroad. My research and teaching come together in encouraging students to question dominant narratives, become autonomous thinkers, and learn collaboratively. I currently offer classes on anarchism, German history of the 20th century, and exile and border histories.

Publications

“Foucault’s Conduct – A Link Between Government, Power, And Philosophy,” Intertexts Vol. 28 (Fall 2024), forthcoming.

“Marx, Wagner, Nietzsche: Welt im Umbruch by Herfried Münkler,” focus on German Studies 29 (2023),104–109

“»Ein Monster sind wir…« Crossing the Line in Campbell, Coleridge und Heidegger,” in Literatur und das Böse. Beiträge des 10. Studierendenkongress Komparatistik, edited by Lise Allirand et al. Berlin: Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag, 2021, 97-108

“Here Are the Materials Strewn Along the Ground – Skepticism, Autonomy and Education in Kant and Romanticism,” Humanities Bulletin 3:2 (November 2020), 91-106

“Gaining Progress, Compensating Losses: The Role of the Humanities in the Redemption of Modernity,” Watchung Review: Contemporary Humanities Vol. 3 (August 2019), 2-9