Jörg Kreienbrock is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in 2005 from the Department of German at New York University with a dissertation thesis examining representations of the small and minute in the prose works of Robert Walser. From 2005 to 2006 he held a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies at Emory University. He spent the 2015/16 academic year as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-Fellow at the Department of Media Studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He also recently received fellowships from the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University (UK), the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna, the University of Rome La Sapienza, and the Graduiertenkolleg “Das Dokumentarische” at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Research Areas
German Studies
Literary Theory
Comparative Literature
Publications (Selection)
Kleiner. Feiner. Leichter: Nuancierungen zum Werk Robert Walsers, Berlin, Zurich: Diaphanes 2010.
Malicious Objects, Anger Management, and the Question of Modern Literature, New York: Fordham University Press 2013.
Sich im Weltall orientieren: Philosophieren im Kosmos 1950 – 1970, Wien, Berlin: Turia + Kant 2020.
Das Medium der Prosa: Studien zur Theorie der Lyrik, Berlin: August Verlag 2020.
