About
Christophe Koné’s research interests include German Romanticism, Modernism, Film Studies, Art History, Comics, Modern Dance, and Fashion Studies.
Education
M.A. Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (2006)
Ph.D. Rutgers University (2013)
Courses
- GERM 203 (S) SEM Hansestadt Hamburg
- GERM 206 SEM Seh’n Se, det is Berlin (not offered 2026/27)
- GERM 212 SEM German Comics (not offered 2026/27)
- COMP 227 TUT Outdoor Pools: Where Eros Meets Thanatos (not offered 2026/27)
- COMP 251/GERM 251 SEM Dolls, Puppets and Automatons (not offered 2026/27)
- COMP 276/AFR 276/GERM 276 TUT Black Europeans (not offered 2026/27)
- GERM 317/WGSS 317 SEM The New Woman in Weimar Culture (not offered 2026/27)
- GERM 321 SEM Lust, Liebe und Gewalt (not offered 2026/27)
- GERM 335 SEM Afro-Germans: History, Culture, and Literature (not offered 2026/27)
- GERM 336 (F) SEM Fussballnation Germany: the Role of Soccer in Post-War & Post-Reunification Germany
Publications
Uncanny Creatures: Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture. University of Michigan Press (July, 2024).
“Rebecca Fontaine Wolf’s Photo Series: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” in Flesh & the Mirror: The Self-Image of Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf In-Fems art collective catalogue, 2024 pp. 61-63.
“Lotte Pritzel’s ‘Dolls for the Vitrine’ – A Post-Colonial Reading of Avant-Garde Dolls in Germany during the Interwar Years“ in Ich weiß, dass ich mich verdoppeln kann – Gisèle Vienne und die Puppen der Avant-garde in Georg Kolbe Museum Verlag, September 2024 pp. 16-29.
„Der menschliche Ansatz ist für mich der Ausgangspunkt.“ Germanistik Associate Professor Christophe Koné interviewt Choreografen Andreas Heise. Werkgespräche II. Kritische Ausgabe 38, 2023. Verlag Dreiviertelhaus
“Laurie Simmons’ The Love Doll: Looking at a Sex Doll Anew” in Denkste Puppe: “puppen/dolls like mensch – dolls/puppets as artificial beings” Double Issue 1.1 / 2020 and 1.2 /2020. https://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/1723
“Das Augenmotiv in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Sandmann” in ETA Hoffmann-Archiv – Portal der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 2016
http://etahoffmann.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/erforschen/charakteristisches/auge/
“Max Beckmann’s Vision: Faces, Defacement, and Facing the Truth” in Reframed: Perspectives on the Madeleine P. and Harvey R. Plonsker Collection, Williams College Museum of Art Press, 2016 pp. 48-57.
“Learning to Flirt with Don Juan” in Flirtations. Rhetoric and Aesthetics. This Side of Seduction. Edited by Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, Barbara Nagel, and Lauren Shizuko-Stone. Fordham University Press, 2015, p. 91-98.
“Unbehagen in der Oper: Robert Lepages Ring-Bau und die Met-Maschine” in Jenseits von Bayreuth. Richard Wagner heute: Neue kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Edited by Stefan Börnchen, Georg Mein, and Elisabeth Strowick. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2014, p. 215-224.
“Aschenbach’s Homovisual Desire: Scopophilia in Thomas Mann’s Der Tod in Venedig” in Thomas Mann, Neue kulturwissenschaftliche Lektüren. Edited by Stefan Börnchen, Georg Mein, and Gary Schmidt. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2012, p. 95-106.
“The Key to Voyeurism: Haneke’s Adaptation of Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher” with Fatima Naqvi in On Michael Haneke. Edited by Brian Price and John David Rhodes. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010, p. 127-150.
Affiliations
German Studies Association
American Friends of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
American Comparative Literature Association
Modern Language Association of America
Service
Since 2024 Bloomsbury Academic Press Visual Cultures & German Contexts Advisory Board Member
2023-27 German Studies Association Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
2020-22 German Studies Association Program Committee 20th/21st century Germanistik Coordinator
2024-2027 Member of the selection committee for the American Comparative Literature Association A. Owen Aldridge Prize for outstanding graduate student scholarship
2024-2028 Member of the Board of Directors of Images Cinema, Non-Profit Community Movie Theater
2024-2027 Jacob’s Pillow, Dance Festival Season Gala opening committee member
Grants
Class of 1945 World Fellowship in July 2022
Class of 1945 World Fellowship in July 2018
Hellmann Faculty Fellowship in July 2016