Dept of German Studies
Building 260, Room 204
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2030

eshel@stanford.edu
(650) 723-0413 (voice)
(650) 725-8421 (fax)

Research Interests
postwar German culture; comparative literature; German-Jewish history and culture from the Enlightenment to the present

Amir Eshel is a Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, and Director of the Forum on Contemporary Europe at FSI. His research focuses on German culture, comparative literature, and German-Jewish history and culture from the Enlightenment to the present. He is currently working on a book about the poetic figuration of historical narratives, and he is also involved in an interdisciplinary project on urban space in Berlin. At Stanford, he has taught courses on German Jewish literature, literature of the Holocaust, modern German poetry and the contemporary German novel.

Before joining the Stanford faculty in 1998 as an assistant professor of German studies, he taught at the Universitat Hamburg (Germany). He is a member of the American Comparative Literature Association, the Association of Jewish studies, the German Studies Association and the Modern Language Association. In 2002 he received the Award for Distinguished Teaching, from Stanford University's dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences. He received an MA and PhD in German literature, both from the Universitat Hamburg. He speaks Hebrew, German and English, and has a good knowledge of Yiddish and French.