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GABRIEL TROP
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27499-3160
[updated October 18, 2012]
2010-PRESENT Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2012 German School Faculty, Middlebury College
2004-2010 Graduate Student Instructor, University of California at Berkeley
2003-2010 Ph.D. German and Medieval Studies, UC Berkeley, CA
Dissertation: Aesthetic Exercises and Poetic Form in the Works of Hölderlin, Novalis,
and Rococo Poets
Chair: Winfried Kudszus
First Reader: Niklaus Largier
2002-2003 Maîtrise Modern Literature, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne
Thesis: Pouvoir et échec de la poésie orphique dans Le Tombeau d'Orphée
de Pierre Emmanuel
Director: Dr. Jean-Louis Backès (Mention "Très Bien")
1998-1999 M.A. German Studies, Stanford University, CA
1994-1999 B.A. Philosophy and Religious Studies, Modern Thought and Literature,
German Studies, Stanford University, CA
Book
Poetry as a Way of Life: Aesthetics and Askesis in the German Eighteenth Century. Under formal
contract at Northwestern UP (projected publication date in 2013).
Refereed Articles
"Modal Revolutions: Friedrich Hölderlin and the Task of Poetry." Submitted to MLN.*
"Aesthetic Askesis: Aesthetics as a Technology of the Self in the Philosophy of Alexander
Baumgarten." Accepted in Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert pending minor revisions.*
"The Persistence of the Fragile World: Poetic Cognition in Hölderlin's Poetological Writing
and 'Der Rhein.'" IJGLSA 14.1: Spring 2009. 55-83.*
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PRESENTATIONS
Non-Refereed Articles
"The Vitality of Form: Hans Richter and the Training of the Soul." In: G und
Konsumkultur: Neues Leben und Überfluss. Spuren der Avantgarde im Alltag der 1920er
und 1930er Jahre. Ed. Karin Fest, Sabrina Rahman, Marie-Noëlle Yazdanpanah. Vienna:
Turia. Forthcoming.
"Confession and Silence. Reflections on Thomas Bernhard's Das Kalkwerk." Das Geständnis
und seine Instanzen. Ed. Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Michael Huffmaster, Eric Nordhausen,
Vrääth Öhner. Vienna: Turia, 2011. 163-188.
"Zwischen Erotik und Bildung: Die Rokoko-Einbildungskraft in Wielands 'Musarion.'"
Wieland-Studien 5. Heidelberg: Winter, 2005. 34-44.
Book Reviews
"Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud (review)." Monatshefte 104.1
(2012): 123-25.
"The Ontology of Non-Observables: Attraction, Repulsion, and Aesthetic Cognition in
Goethe’s Poetry and Thought." Observation in Science and Literature, German Studies
Association, October 6, 2012.
"Flows of Control. Some Reflections on Fritz Lang's Mabuse der Spieler." The Dark Side of
Modernity, Jahrestagung des Forschungsnetzwerks BTWH, May 18, 2012.
"The Afterlife of Immanence: The Rise and Fall of the Anacreontic Ode." Historical Poetics,
ACLA, March 31, 2012.
"Hölderlin and the Modalization of Poetic Experience," Teaching the Power of Poetry,
SAMLA, November 5, 2011.
"On the Corruption of Time: The Betrayal of the Divine in Hölderlin's Theory of Tragedy,"
The Sacrality of Language, German Studies Association, September 23, 2011.
"The Everyday Life of Forms: Hans Richter, Josef Frank, and the Construction of Total
Design," Avantgarde 1923. Diskurse der Zeitschrift G—Material zur elementaren Gestaltung.
Tübingen, June 3, 2011.
"Joesph Beuys: Form, Power, Energy," Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, May 4, 2011.
"Between Mind and Nature: The Movements of Attraction and Repulsion in Schelling's
Naturphilosophie and Novalis' Poetry," American Comparative Literature Association,
Vancouver, Canada, April 1, 2011.
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FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
"Aesthetic Freedom and the Exercise of the Self," American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Vancouver, Canada, March 19, 2011.
"The Spectral Life of Words: The Legacy of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe," Literary Lions:
Authors as National Icons, UNC Humanities Program of the College of Arts and Sciences
and the General Alumni Association, Chapel Hill, February 25, 2011.
"The Dissonances of Perfection: Perception and Temporality in Hölderlin's Last Poems,"
Semiotic Circle of California, Berkeley, January 22, 2011.
"Feeling, Reflection, and Stimulation in Novalis' Theory of Poetic Language," Semiotic
Circle of California, Berkeley, January 23, 2010.
"The Impossibility of Confession in the Age of Deception: Reflections on Thomas
Bernhard’s Das Kalkwerk," Geständnis und Urteil, IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum
Kulturwissenschaften and the University of Vienna, Vienna, June 11-14, 2009.
"The Depth of the Surface: Anacreontic Play and Reflexivity," American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond, March 25-28, 2009.
"Instabilität, Potentialität, Neuheit: Hölderlins Poetik der Verzweigung," ZwischenRäume
15, Berlin, February 20, 2009.
"Kurtag Fragments and Holistic Semiotics," Semiotic Circle of California, Berkeley, January
28, 2008.
"The Aesthetics of Surveillance," Public Space & Media – Medien, öffentlicher Raum und
Öffentlichkeit. Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, June 14-17, 2007.
"Poetry and the Critical Moment: Reflections on Durs Grünbein," Media and Mobility,
University of California, Berkeley, March 22-25, 2006.
"Narrative and Urban Space in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage," Destinations of Desire – Routes of
Agency, IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften and the University
of Vienna, June 23-26, 2005.
"Dynamic Systems Theory and Literary Analysis: A Reading of Hölderlin's 'Patmos',"
Metaphor / Formula, Johns Hopkins University, December 3-5, 2004.
"Musarions Lücke," Christoph Martin Wieland – Ein Mensch des Rokoko, Biberach,
Germany, July 14-18, 2004.
2010 Graduate Division Summer Grant, UC Berkeley
2009 Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2008-2009 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
2008-2009 Ph.D. Net Das Wissen der Literatur, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
2008-2009 Chancellor's Dissertation Year Fellowship (Declined)
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TEACHING RECORD
2008 Steinway Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
2003-2006 Berkeley Fellowship
2001-2002 Ernst-Reuter-Stipendium
2000-2002 Fulbright Grant, Film Studies and Philosophy, Freie-Universität, Berlin
1999 Firestone Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
AT UNC:
2012 German 615: Cultural Foundations I
2012 German 303: Introduction to German Literature
2012 German 281: Freedom and Terror
2012 German 373: German Lyric Poetry
2011 German 302: Modern German Society
2011 German 301: German Pop and Youth Culture
2011 German 301: German Pop and Youth Culture
2011 German 390: Overwhelming Attractions: Readings in Catastrophic Literature
2010 German 301: German Pop and Youth Culture
2010 German 840: Figures of Perturbation: Aesthetics and Novelty in Eighteenth-Century
Literature and Philosophy
AT UC BERKELEY:
2010 German 131: Goethe (taught in German)
2009 German 157: Heidegger and Arendt
2008 German R5B: "Romantic Imaginations"
2008 German R5B: "Knowledge/Art"
2007 German R5A: "Eros and Truth"
2007 German R5B: "Romanticizing the World"
2006 German 4: Intermediate German
2005 German 3: Intermediate German
2005 Philosophy 6: From gods to God and Back
2004 German 2: Beginning German
2004 German 10: Intensive First and Second Semester German
2004 Philosophy 7: Existentialism in Literature and Film
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AT UNC
2011-2012 Co-organizer of Carolina-Duke German Studies Work in Progress Series
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
LANGUAGES
2011 Committee to Create German and Slavic Languages and Literatures Personnel
Document
2011 Co-organizer of Film Series "In the Shadows of Catastrophe: German Cinema 1977-
1992" shown in conjunction with Ackland Art Museum's Exhibit De-Natured:
German Art from Joseph Beuys to Martin Kippenberger
2010 Member on Search Committee for Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship, UNC
2008-2010 MLA Special Interest Delegate, Region 7
2007 Co-Editor in Chief, TRANSIT Journal of Media, Mobility, and Migration
2006 Assistant Editor, TRANSIT Journal of Media, Mobility, and Migration
Modern: German (near native), French (fluent), Russian (intermediate knowledge), Italian
(reading knowledge), Spanish (reading knowledge).
Older: Middle High German, Old Occitan, Latin, Ancient Greek.
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October 2012