Professional Appointments
- Associate Professor of German at Michigan State University
- Core Faculty in the Digital Humanities
- Affiliated Faculty in Jewish Studies
Education
- Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures (University of Pennsylvania)
- A.M. in Germanic Languages and Literatures (University of Pennsylvania)
- B.A. in Mathematics and German Literature (Hamilton College)
Monographs and Edited Volumes
- The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019.
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The Franz Rosenzweig Yearbook. Eds. Matthew Handelman, Ephraim Meir, and Christian Wiese. Vol 10, The ‘And’ in Franz Rosenzweig’s Work. Clashes and Encounters between Faiths, Cultures, Classes and Nations. Freiburg: Alber Verlag, 2019.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- “After Language as Such: Gershom Scholem, Werner Kraft, and the Question of Mathematics,” in: The Germanic Review, vol. 91.3. Special Issue: Walter Benjamin: Piecework, ed. Samuel Weber (2016): 294-311.
- “Digital Humanities as Translation: Visualizing Rosenzweig’s Archive,” in: TRANSIT, vol. 10.1, ed. Jon Cho-Polizzi. Special Issue: The Digital German Humanities (2015). Online. http://transit.berkeley.edu/archives/volume-10-1/
- “The Dialectics of Otherness: Siegfried Kracauer’s Figurations of the Jew, Judaism, and Jewishness,” in: Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies, eds. Alfred Bodenheimer and Vivian Liska, vol. 2. Recasting the “Other”: Readings in German Jewish Interwar Culture and Its Aftermath, ed. Karin Neuburger (2015): 90-111.
- “Unvermeidliches Schicksal? Alcoholism, Mathematics, and Heredity in Theodor Storm’s ‘Der Herr Etatsrath’ (1881),” in: Scientia Poetica: Yearbook for the History of Literature, Humanities and Sciences, eds. Andrea Albrecht, Lutz Danneberg, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, and Friedrich Vollhardt, vol. 18 (2014): 81-102.
- “Der Text ist Landschaft – Marginalität und Paul Celans ‘Engführung,’” in: Am Rand: Grenzen und Peripherien in der europäisch-jüdischen Literatur, eds. Sylvia Jaworski and Vivian Liska (München: Edition Text + Kritik, 2012): 224-238.
- “Franz Rosenzweig’s Modern Mathematics,” in: Leo Baeck Yearbook, vol. 57 (2012): 141-162.
- “The Forgotten Conversation: Five Letters from Franz Rosenzweig to Siegfried Kracauer, 1921 – 1923,” in: Scientia Poetica, vol. 15 (December, 2011): 232-251.
Book Chapters
- “Physical Redemption: Psychophysics, Messianism, and the Origins of Kracauer’s Theory of Film,” in: ‘Doch ist das Wirkliche auch vergessen, so ist es darum nicht getilgt’: Beiträge zum Werk Siegfried Kracauers, eds. Jörn Ahrens, Paul Fleming, Susanne Martin, and Ulrike Vedder (Berlin: Springer, 2016): 239-257.
- “Making Space for Judaism – Franz Rosenzweig and the Spatiality of Belief,” in: Räume und Dinge: Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven, eds. Manfred Pfaffenthaler, Stefanie Lerch, Katharina Schwabl, and Dagmar Probst (Bielefeld: transcript, 2014): 45-60.
- “Mathematical Mythologies and the Dialectic of Enlightenment,” in: Fiktum versus Faktum: Nicht-mathematische Dialoge mit der Mathematik, eds. Franziska Bomski and Stefan Suhr (Berlin: Erich-Schmidt Verlag, 2011): 59-77.
Digital Projects
- “The Annotated Star.” Collaborative, online annotation platform for Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption (1921). Co-PIs with Ynon Wygoda and Sinai Rusinek. Ongoing.
- “‘The Poor Sinners’ Pamphlets’” and “Critical Comics.” Collaborative digitization, analysis, and pedagogy projects for “Seminar in Digital Humanities” (MSU, AL 340 and 891).
Selected Fellowships & Awards
- Marbach Stipendium (Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar)
- Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship (Leo Baeck Institute, New York City)
- Visiting Scholar and Participant, DAAD Summer Seminar (Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University)
- Associate Fellow, Suhrkamp Forschungskolleg (Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar)
- Dissertation Fellow, Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme (Leo Baeck Institute London and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
- DAAD Graduate Research Fellowship (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)