Thomas Pfau

Office Hours:

Mondays 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. & by appointment.

Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English

External Address:

312 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Internal Office Address:

Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015

Phone:

(919) 681-3098

Email:

pfau@duke.edu

Links

"THOMAS PFAU (PhD 1989, SUNY Buffalo) is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English, with secondary appointments in Germanic Language & Literatures and the Divinity School at Duke University. He has published some forty-five essays on literary and philosophical subjects ranging from the 18^ththrough the early 20^thcentury. In addition to two translations, of Hölderlin and Schelling (SUNY Press, 1987 and 1994), he has also edited seven essay collections and special journal issues and is the author of three monographs: Wordsworth’s Profession (Stanford UP 1997), Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, Melancholy, 1790-1840 (Johns Hopkins UP 2005), and Minding the Modern: Intellectual Traditions, Human Agency, and Responsible Knowledge (Notre Dame UP, 2013). His current book project focuses on phenomenology of image-consciousness in literature, theology, and philosophy.

Education

Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo 1989
M.A., University of California at Irvine 1985

Judgment and Action Fragments toward a History. Ed. T Pfau and V Soni. Northwestern University Press, December 15, 2017. (Collection)

Pfau, T. Minding the modern: Human agency, intellectual traditions, and responsible knowledge. January 1, 2013.

Pfau, T, and Mitchell, R. Romanticism and Modernity. Routledge, November 2011.

Romanticism and Modernity. Ed. T Pfau and R Mitchell. Routledge, 2011. (Collection)

Medium and Message in German Modernism. Ed. T Pfau. 2006.

Pfau, T. Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. (Monograph)

Pfau, T. Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion. an anthology of twenty-one essays, Durham: Duke UP, 1998.

Pfau, T. Wordsworth’s Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Romantic Cultural Production. Stanford UP, 1997.

Pfau, T. Idealism and the Endgames of Theory: Three Essays by F. W. J. Schelling. State U of New York P, 1994. (Monograph)

Pfau, T, and translator, . Friedrich Hölderlin: Essays and Letters on Theory. State U of New York P, 1987.

Pages

Pfau, T. "Rational Theology and the Catholic Critique of Modernity, 1780-1830." The Oxford Handbook on European Romanticism. Ed. HKC Paul and London. October 2014.

Pfau, T. "Wagner hören im Zeitalter kultureller Überdetermination: Adorno’s Versuch über Wagner." Jenseits von Bayreuth: Richard Wagner Heute. Ed. S Boernchen and G Mein. Fink Verlag, March 2014.

Pfau, T. "’A certain mediocrity' Moral Sentiments and Early Behaviorism in A. Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments." Romanticism and the Emotions. Ed. J Faflak and R Sha. Cambridge UP, February 2014.

Pfau, T. "A certain mediocrity: Adam Smith’s moral behaviorism." Romanticism and the Emotions. January 1, 2012. 48-75. Full Text

Pfau, T. "The Appearance of Stimmung: Play as Virtual Rationality." Stimmung: zur Wiederkehr einer ästhetischen Kategorie?. Ed. A Gisbertz. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, March 2011. (Essay)

Pfau, T. "William Paley." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 4 vols. Ed. F Burwick and N Goslee. Blackwell, 2011. (Essay)

Pfau, T. "The Bildungsroman." The Blackwell Encylopedia of Romantic Literature. Ed. F Burwick, N Goslee, and D Hoeveler. London: Blackwell, 2011. 124-132. (Essay)

Pfau, T. "Between sentimentality and phantasmagoria: German lyric poetry, 1830–1890." German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899. January 1, 2010. 207-250.

Pfau, T. "Bildung: Etiology, Function, Structure (with some reflections on Beethoven)." Die Romantik: ein Gründungsmythos der EuropEuropäischen Moderne. Ed. U Gaier. Bonner Universitätsverlag, 2010. 123-41. (Essay)

Pfau, T. "Mourning Modernity: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form." The Oxford Handbook on the Elegy. 2009.