Adrian Daub Explained

Adrian Daub
Birth Date:1980

Adrian Daub (born 1980 in Cologne) is a German literary scholar and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, who has served as the Director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and serves as the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute at Stanford.

Life and career

Daub received a B.A. from Swarthmore College in 2003 before completing an M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation dealt with the marriage philosophies in German Romanticism and Idealism and was under the direction of Liliane Weissberg.

Daub was an assistant professor of German (2008-2013) and associate professor of German (2013-2016) at Stanford and was appointed full Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature in 2016.[1] At Stanford, he served as the Director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2016-2020)[2] and, since 2019, has served as the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute at Stanford.[3]

Daub has been the co-editor of the Goethe Yearbook and General Editor of Republics of Letters – A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts.

Daub's scholarship focuses on the history of German literature, culture, and intellectual life since 1790, German Idealism and German Romanticism, philosophy, gender and sexuality, German literature and film since the end of World War II, music and German modernism, operas of the fin de siècle, the Frankfurt School, photography and literature, and collective memory.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stanford, Profiles . Stanford University . September 22, 2022.
  2. Web site: Professor Adrian Daub named as next director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford . Stanford University . 27 June 2016 . September 22, 2022.
  3. Web site: Daub Named Director of Clayman Institute for Gender Research . Stanford University . 10 June 2019 . September 22, 2022.
  4. Web site: People . Stanford University . September 22, 2022.