Andreas Huyssen | |
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| Born | 1942 (age 82–83) |
| Occupation | Professor emeritus |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | University of Zürich |
| Spouse | Nina Bernstein |
| Relatives | Lester Bernstein (father-in-law) |
Andreas Huyssen (born 1942) is the Villard Professor Emeritus of German andComparative Literature atColumbia University, where he taught beginning in 1986. He is the founding director of the university's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and one of the founding editors of theNew German Critique.[1]
Huyssen was born in Germany in 1942. He studied at several European universities in Madrid, Cologne, Paris, and Munich. He received his doctorate in Germanic and Romance Languages and Literature from theUniversity of Zürich in 1969 under the direction ofEmil Staiger, and taught at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee from 1971 until 1986, when he joined the faculty at Columbia.[2] From 1986 to 1992 and again from 2005 to 2008, he served as head of Columbia's Germanic Languages and Literature department. From 1998 to 2003 he was founding director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society. He was named a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022.[3]
Huyssen is known for his work on 18th-20th centuryGerman literature and culture, internationalmodernism andpostmodernism,Frankfurt School critical theory,cultural memory,historical trauma,urban culture, andglobalization. His work has appeared in translation inSpanish,Portuguese,Turkish,Chinese,Japanese, French, and other languages.[4]
He is currently working on a book assembling and expanding his collected essays on thecontemporary visual arts.
In addition to his editorship of theNew German Critique, Huyssen serves on the editorial boards ofOctober,Constellations,Memory Studies andGermanic Review.[5]
He is married toThe New York Times correspondentNina Bernstein. Huyssen is a longtime friend ofNobel Prize-winning Turkish novelistOrhan Pamuk, and often hosts him when the writer comes to the U.S.[6][7] The two teach an undergraduate class together at Columbia called "Words and Pictures," which examines problems of visual representation in literature, particularly theories ofekphrasis.[8]
