Jeffrey S. Librett is Professor of Germanic Language and Literatures (Ph.D. Cornell University, 1989, in Comparative Literature).

Professor Librett has written The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue: Jews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to Richard Wagner and Beyond (Stanford University Press, 2000), and published numerous essays on German literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, Jewish Studies, and theory from the eighteenth century to the present.

He has translated numerous texts from German and French into English, including Jean-Luc Nancy's "The Sense of the World" (University of Minnesota Press, 1997) and "Of the Sublime: Presence in Question," by Michel Deguy et al (State University of New York Press, 1993).

He is currently writing a book provisionally entitled "Orientalism and Groundlessness: the Cultural Politics of the Pantheism Panic from Lessing to Kafka."