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Bruce.Kieffer@williams.edu

At Williams since 1978
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FACULTY
Bruce Kieffer

Professor of German


Areas of Expertise and Interest
  • German Literature and Thought 1750-1900
  • American and German Comparative Political History

Courses Taught  (GERM/COMP)
  • Elementary German (GERM 101-102)
  • Intermediate German (GERM 103)
  • From Goethe to Kafka (GERM 204)
  • Nietzsche-Zeit (GERM 313)
  • Issues in Literary Theory: Philosophy and Literature (LIT 402)

Education
  • B.A. Columbia University, 1973
  • Ph.D. Princeton University, 1979

Previous Posts
  • Director, Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, 1986-90.

Recent Publications
  • The Storm and Stress of Language: Linguistic Catastrophe in the Early Works of Goethe, Lenz, Klinger and Schiller, 1986.

Awards
  • NEH Research Fellow, 1982-83
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