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HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT

is the Albert Gurard Professor in Literature at Stanford University. Among his books on

literary theory and literary and cultural history areEine Geschichte der spanischen Literatur(1990;

Spanish translation forthcoming); Making Sense in Life and Literature (Minnesota University

Press, 1992); In 1926--Living at the Edge of Time (Harvard University Press, 1998; translated

into German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish); Vom Leben und Sterben der grossen

Romanisten(Germany/Hanser, 2002); The Powers of Philology(University of Illinois Press, 2003;

translated into German and Spanish; Georgian translation forthcoming); Production of Presence

(Stanford University Press, 2004; translations into French, German, Hungarian, Portuguese,

Russian, and Spanish); In Praise of Athletic Beauty (Harvard Press, 2006; translations into

German, French, Spanish, Cantonese, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Korean, Danish, andUkrainian); California Graffiti Bilder von westlichen Ende der Welt (Hanser Verlag, 2010), Unsere

breite Gegenwart (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2010; translations into English and Spanish), and

Stimmungen lesen (Hanser Verlag, 2011; translations into English, Portuguese, and Spanish).

After 1945 Latency as Origin of the Present, appeared in 2013 at Stanford University Press

(German translation, 2012; Hungarian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish translations

forthcoming).

Gumbrecht is a regular contributor to the the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Neue

Zrcher Zeitung, and Estado de So Paulo. He is a member of the American Academy of

Arts & Sciences, Professeur attach au Collge de France, and has received eight honorary

doctorates in six countries. He has been a visiting professor at numerous academic

institutions worldwide: he was a Distinguished Visitor at the Commonwealth Center of the

University of Virginia; Walker Ames Professor at the University of Washington; a Fellow at

the Stanford Humanities Center; the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

(CASBS) in Palo Alto; the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation (Munich); and the

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He has been an instructor at the School of Criticism and

Theory at Cornell University (summers of 2005 and 2012), where he is a Member of the

Board.