David Martyn
Contact
German StudiesHumanities Building, Room 209
651-696-6374
651-696-6428 (fax)
Professor, German and Russian Studies
Focuses on comparative literature, literary theory, culture from the 18th century to the present, philosophy, and literature written in German by 鈥渇oreign鈥-language authors
Humanities 211B
651-696-6547
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David Martyn, Professor (B.A. Yale Univ., M.A. and Ph.D. Cornell Univ.), teaches courses on German and European literature, philosophy, and critical theory. Recent and forthcoming course offerings include 鈥淩eading Marx,鈥 鈥淔reedom and Its Discontents,鈥 鈥淎merica Made in Europe,鈥 鈥淭he Fairy Tale (Grimms to Disney),鈥 鈥淥ur Cyborgs, Ourselves,鈥 and 鈥淚ntroduction to Comparative Literature: Short Forms鈥 (co-taught with Andrew Billing).
His publications include a book on Kant and Sade (Wayne State UP, 2003), a critical edition of Moses Mendelssohn鈥檚 (Aisthesis, 2001), articles on Kant, Marx, Adorno, and the 18th-century German-Jewish philosopher Salomon Maimon, and several co-edited books and journal issues on the (Suhrkamp, 2020), , and on the challenges faced by the notion of a shared common sense since the 18th century titled . Recent articles include 鈥溾 and 鈥溾; forthcoming are 鈥淥n Power in an Extra-Secular Sense: Kant鈥檚 Sublime鈥 (for the Cambridge Handbook on Kant and Literary Studies) and 鈥淟iterarizit盲t und Sprachigkeit: Zu Tomer Gardis broken german鈥 (for the Schiller-Jahrbuch).
In 2011, Martyn was resident scholar at the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies in Berlin (ZfL) and the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies at the Free University of Berlin. In 2021, he was Mercator 日韩精品ing Professor at the DFG Graduate Training Group 鈥溾 at the University of Bonn.