Dr. Claus Daufenbach

Managing Director of the North American Studies Program

Institutional Mailing Address
Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie
Nordamerikastudienprogramm
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Regina-Pacis-Weg 5
53113 Bonn

Office Phone & E-Mail
Phone: 0228 – 737208
Fax: 0228 – 737948
E-Mail: c.daufenbachuni-bonn.de

Office Hours during the semester break
Day/Time: Tue, 27 July, 12-1; Tue, 3 August, 12-1; Tue, 28 September, 12-1;
Mon, 4 October, 12-1; and by appointment via email
Location/Room No.: Regina-Pacis-Weg 5, Room 2.013

Education

1987 Dr. phil. Univ. Bonn
1983 M.A. Univ. Bonn

Professional Experience

1992-present Senior Lecturer Univ. Bonn
1986-1992 Lecturer Univ. Bonn
1984-1985 German Lector Univ. of Virginia
1981-1982 German Lector Univ. of Oxford

Research Interests
Faulkner and the Culture of the South; Representations of Nature & Landscape in American Art and Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries; Transatlantic Cultural Exchanges

Publications

1990: Ästhetizismus und Moderne: Studien zu William Faulkners früher Prosa. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag.
2005: „A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Tourist: William Faulkner in Europe, 1925,” in V. Béghain and M. Chénetier, eds. The Cultural Shuttle: The United States in/of Europe (Amsterdam: VU Univ. Press) 211-219.
„’Like a Cubistic Bug’: Space, Silhouette and Collage in Faulkner’s Early Prose“ (in preparation)
Publications on American and English Literature from Defoe to the 20th Century