book :: translations

Employment History

Assistant Professor of German, University of Oregon (2007–present).
Assistant Professor of German, University of New Mexico (2005–2007).
Visiting Assistant Professor of German, University of New Mexico (2004–2005).
Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Kenyon College (2003–2004).

Education

Ph.D. (Comparative Literary Studies) Northwestern University, 2003.

Book

Wittgenstein’s Novels. New York and London: Routledge, 2006.

Book Chapters

• “No Exile: Crossing the Border with Sebald and Améry,” in W.G. Sebald and Expatriate Writing, ed. Gerhard Fischer (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008).
• “Steve Reich und die richtige Mischung,” in Im Prozeß der Kultur. Essays, ed. Frank Madro and Alexander Schlutz (Hamburg: Merus, 2008).
• “Sebald’s Pathographies,” in W.G. Sebald: History – Memory – Trauma, ed. Scott Denham and Mark R. McCulloh (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2006), 63-73.
• “Lassowerfen im Erlebnispark: Dilthey’s Hunt for the Memory of the Geisteswissenschaften,” in Patentlösung oder Zankapfel? ‘German Studies’ für den internationalen Bereich als Alternative zur Germanistik – Beispiele aus Amerika, ed. Peter Pabisch (New York: Peter Lang, 2005), 111-28.
• “Infinite Journey: From Kafka to Sebald,” in W.G. Sebald: A Critical Companion, eds. Jonathan Long and Anne Whitehead (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2004), 123-39. [This volume also published under the same title with: University of Washington Press; Seattle, Wash.]
• “Händler, Preparing for Work,” afterword to City with Houses [see below], 217-28.
• “Why Postmodern Memory is Nothing Special (to Cognitive Science),” in The Poetics of Memory, ed. Thomas Wägenbaur (Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1998), 359-75.

Translations

• Hannah Arendt, Reflections on Literature and Culture, ed. Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007) [trans. of six chapters from German].
• Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb, “‘Seit jener Zeit’: Arendt im Licht ihrer Literaturkritik,“ in Hannah Arendt, ed. Wolfgang Heuer and Thomas Wild, Text+Kritik 166/167 (2005): 138-49 [trans. from English].
• Ernst-Wilhelm Händler, City with Houses (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2002) [trans. from German].