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Klaus Mladek
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Klaus Mladek studied German and comparative literature, philosophy, theology, and law in Frankfurt am Main, where he was awarded a Magister Artium in 1993. He continued his studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, receiving his M.A. in 1995 and Ph.D. in 2000. Before coming to Dartmouth, he taught at the University of Cincinnati from 2000-2004. He has been a fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (1990-1998) and of the Humboldt-Foundation (2002-2004). His research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century literature and literary theory, psychoanalysis, law, and politics. Recent articles are on the American jury system, the state of exception in contemporary politics, Kafka's lawyers, and W.G. Sebald's politics of literature, including a study on a "politics of melancholia." He is the editor of Police Forces: A Cultural History of an Institution (Palgrave 2007), a volume on the representation of police in literature, film and culture in the 16th-20th centuries. His book Theater of Justice: Kant, Schiller, Kleist, Nietzsche, Kafka is forthcoming. His current book project is entitled Criminal Subjects: Politics and Police in German Literature and Thought (1800/1900).
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