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Dr. Seth Knox
Assistant Professor, German
Mahan Hall 11F, 517-265-5161, x3915
sknox@adrian.edu
Education
PhD in Modern Languages (German, French,
Swedish), Wayne State University
Specialist in Psychological
(especially cognitive) approaches to language
and literature, propaganda analysis, travel
literature, the Weimar Republic
Presentations
“Changing Minds: Theory of Mind
and Propaganda in Egon Erwin Kisch’s
Asien gründlich verändert.”
Theory of Mind and Literature Conference,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN,
November 2007.
“The War on Terror: A Progress
Report from 1932.” Second Annual
Graduate Student Conference, Wayne State
University, Detroit, MI, April 2004.
“A Political Tourist Visits the
Future: Ernst Toller’s Russian and
American Travels near the End of the Weimar
Republic.” Modern Languages Research
Symposium, National University of Ireland,
Galway, Novemer 2002.
“Psychogeographical Considerations
of Ernst Toller’s Quer Durch.”
Dissertation Colloquium of the Department
of German and Slavic Studies, Wayne State
University, Detroit, April 2002.
“No One Appreciates an Old-Fashioned,
Cannibalistic Love Story Anymore: How
to Read Konrad von Würzburg’s
Herzmaere.” Graduate Forum
in Modern Languages, Wayne State University,
Detroit, February 2002.
“Building a Better Faust: Vischer’s
Guide to Repairing the Classics.”
Brown Bag Colloquium, Wayne State University,
Detroit, February 2001.
Publications Forthcoming
entries: “Archetype,” “Bible/Bible
Tales,” “Carl Gustav Jung,”
“Franz Kafka,” and “Parable.”
In Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy
Tales. Ed. Donald Haase. Wesport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
Review of Arachne und ihre Schwestern:
Eine Motivgeschichte der Spinne von ‘Naturvolkermärchen’
bis zu den ‘Urban Legends’,
by Bernd Rieken. Marvels & Tales:
Journal of Fairy Tale Studies 20.2
(2006).
Weimar Germany between Two Worlds:
The American and Russian Travels of Kisch,
Toller, Holitscher, Goldschmidt, and Rundt.
Series Ed. Horst S. Daemmrich. Studies
on Themes and Motifs in Literature 81.
New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
“A Political Tourist Visits the
Future: Ernst Toller’s Russian and
American Travels near the End of the Weimar
Republic.” Cross-Cultural Travel:
Papers from the Royal Irish Academy Modern
Languages Symposium on Literature and
Travel, National University of Ireland,
Galway, November 2002. Ed. Jane Conroy.
Travel Writing Across the Disciplines
7. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. 355-63.
Other Interests
Historical and comparative linguistics,
phonetic and phonemic analysis, travel,
Indian and Thai cooking, musical composition,
psychology and neuroscience
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