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Klaus Mladek

Klaus Mladek is an associate professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College and a Public Voices fellow with the OpEd Project.

Klaus Mladek studied comparative literature, law, philosophy and theology at the Freie Universität in Berlin and the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, where he was awarded a Magister Artium in 1993. He continued his studies at the University of California, receiving his M.A. in 1995 and Ph.D. in 2000 with a dissertation entitled "Criminal Subjects: Politics vs. Police in Literature and Thought after Kant." Before coming to Dartmouth, he taught at the University of Cincinnati from 2000-2004. He has received research grants from the ACLS, the Humboldt Foundation, the NEH and the Center for European Studies. His research focuses on 18th- to 20th-century literature, political theory, law, psychoanalysis and philosophy. He is the editor of "Police Forces: A Cultural History of an Institution" (2007) and of "Sovereignty in Ruins: Towards a Politics of Crisis" (2017). His monograph "Stages of Justice: Encounters of Politics, Theater and Philosophy from Socrates to Arendt" is forthcoming with NUP. Recent articles are on a politics of crisis, Kafka’s lawyers, on Schiller’s criminals, on torture and shame, melancholic politics and the American courtroom drama. He is currently completing a co-authored study entitled "A Politics of Melancholia". He then embarks on a book project entitled Benjamin’s Demons: Revolution and the Idea of Justice.

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