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Peter J. Schwartz

Assistant Professor of German

• BA, Harvard University
• MA, Columbia University
• PhD, Columbia University

Professor Schwartz teaches courses in German and comparative literature and in film. Most of his work to date centers on Goethe and his age (1749-1832). His special interests include the Enlightenment (as historical event and unfinished process), neoclassicism, Romantic historiography, European modernism, French and Dutch literature, early film and photography, New York City, the critical work of the Frankfurt School, the "science of culture" (Kulturwissenschaft) of the art historian Aby Warburg and his circle, and the historical sociology of Norbert Elias. His book on Goethe's novel Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809) is in press, and he is conducting research on Aby Warburg's response to the First World War.