Expertise

Fields of interest:

  • literature and cognitive science
  • empathy
  • narrative
  • German and European literature, philosophy, and culture since 1700
  • aesthetics
  • intellectual history of money
  • Goethe

Currently we focus on: narrative events, untold stories, affect, empathy, moral reasoning, side-taking, alibis and excuses (in legal and medical settings), violence, surprise, and aesthetics.

My research focusses on narratives and on empathy. In my lab, we study narratives and narrative thinking through a variety of methods, including serial reproduction.

Research:

  • Serial Reproduction
  • Empathy
  • Narrative Events

Area of expertise:

  • German

Expertise:

  • Austria
  • Germany
  • Literature
  • Modernism
  • Money
Affiliations

Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington
2010

Adjunct Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Provost Professor, Cognitive Science Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Affiliate Faculty, Institute for European Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Cultural Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Human Biology Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Institute of German Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Past Affiliations

Provost Professor, Human Biology Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Chairman, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Director, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Cognitive Science Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Faculty, Institute for European Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Biological Science, European Studies, European Studies, Literature, Cognitive Science
Degrees
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, German Literature, 1997
MA, Johns Hopkins University, German Literature, 1993
BA, University of Hamburg, German Studies, 1991
Keywords
editorial projects literary criticism german language or literature philosophy of language philosophical literature media arts aesthetics visual arts