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Expertise
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Work
Work
The Smell of Books: A Cultural-Historical Study of Olfactory Perception in Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992).
Writing Switzerland: Culture, History, and Politics in the Work of Peter von Matt, edited by Peter C. Meilaender and Hans J. Rindisbacher (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Vienna: Peter Lang, 2019).
“Smells of Switzerland” in: From Multiculturalism to Cultural Hybridity: New Approaches to Teaching Modern Switzerland, ed. Margrit Zinggeler and Karin Baumgartner (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2010), p. 229-252.
“Hermann Burgers Die künstliche Mutter und der thermo-emotionale Zustand schweizerischer Männlichkeit” in: Nach Feierabend. Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte (2017). Der kalte Krieg. Kältegrade eines globalen Konflikts. Hrsg. Silvia Berger Ziauddin, David Eugster, Christa Wirth (October 2017), S. 175-197.
“The End of Dressing? Huysmans’s A Rebours and Houellebecq’s Submission” (“Закат эры ‘одеяния’? Наоборот Ж.-К. Гюисманса и Покорность М. Уэльбека”). Теория Моды, 14:1. Spring 2018.
Review Essay: “Modest Dress. Contemporary Muslim Fashions.” Exhibition Catalog of the eponymous exhibition, September 22, 2018 – January 6, 2019, de Young Museum, San Francisco, curated by Jill d’Alessandro, Reina Lewis, and Laura L. Camerlengo, (Munich, DelMonico Books, Prestel, 2018).
Review Essay. “What Remains: Traces of the Soviet Past.” Karl Schlögel, Das sowjetische Jahrhundert: Archäologie einer untergegangenen Welt (München: C.H. Beck, 2017), The European Legacy, 25:3, 354-359, June 3, 2019.
Book review: Allan McRobie. The Seduction of Curves: The Lines of Beauty that Connect Mathematics, Art, and the Nude (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017). Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 2:22, August 2019.
Book review: Transnationalization of Public Spheres; Hartmut Wessler, Bernhard Peters, Michael Brüggemann, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, and Stefanie Sifft (Basingstoke, UK, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
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Education
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Visit grant to Germany, summer 2011.
Hirsch Research Initiation Grant, Pomona College, 2010
Pomona College, Yale Griffith Faculty Grant, 1998
Harvey Mudd College, Mellon Grant for Technology Development, 1996
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar, University of Washington, 1992
MLA Book Prize for Independent Scholar, 1992