A professor at Sarah Lawrence College. BA, University of Augsburg, Germany. MA, University of Pittsburgh. PhD, Princeton University. Special interest in 20th-century German and Austrian literature; author of Totalität und Totalitarismus: Das Exilwerk Alfred Döblins and several essays and book reviews on 19th- and 20th-century German literature; coeditor of Unus Mundus: Kosmos and Sympathie, Naturphilosophie, and Philosophia Naturalis.