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Scott Spector specializes in cultural history of modern Central Europe. His varied research and teaching interests involve the relations between ideology and culture, approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. His particular areas of interest include German-speaking Jewish writers and thinkers, sexuality and culture, nationalism and empire, and the politics of historiography and historical representation. Recent book projects include a study on the creation of marginal figures like homosexuals, eroticized women, and Jewish ritual murderers within the context of scientific sensational culture in fin-de-siècle Vienna and Berlin (Violent Sensations, Chicago 2016). He also explores German-Jewish culture from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust, focusing on the subjectivity of historical writing (Modernism Jews? German-Jewish Subjects Histories, Indiana 2017). Selected publications encompass works on national conflict and cultural innovation in Prague territories and a genealogy of sexuality in modern German contexts.
University of Michigan • Ann Arbor, MI
Professor in the departments of History, Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Judaic Studies.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science