German Language and Literatures
Contact
Department Chair:
Elizabeth Hamilton

Administrative Assistant:
Polly Bratton

Department Email:


Phone: 440 7758650
Fax: 440 7756355

Location:
Peters Hall 222
50 N. Professor St.
Oberlin, OH, 44074

Steven Huff

Steven Huff

Professor of German

Contact Information

E-mail:


Office:
Peters Hall 216
(440) 775-8658

Personal Office Hours:
Monday/Wednesday
10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Tuesday 12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. And by appointment

Steven Huff

Professor Steven Huff

Educational Background

  • Bachelor of Arts, Arizona State University, 1980
  • Master of Arts, Arizona State University, 1982
  • Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1984
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University,1987


Areas of Special Interest

Baroque, Goethezeit, Romanticism, and the interrelations of music and literature

 

Published Works

 

Heinrich von Kleist's Poetics of Passivity. Rochester: Camden House, 2009

 Steve book

 

 

"Es ist seit Rahel uns erlaubt, Gedanken zu haben."  Essays in Honor of Heidi Thomann Tewarson. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012

 

Articles on Kleist, Goethe, the German opera libretto, Baroque drama, and Czech resistance literature

 

 


Representative Courses

  • Introductory and Intermediate German
  • Survey of German Literature from Enlightenment to Romanticism 
  • The German Opera Libretto -Goethe, Mozart and Weimar Court Theater 
  • Schubert Lieder (with David Breitman in the Conservatory) 
  • Kleist 
  • Aspects of Drama 
  • Contemporary German Poetry 
  • Romanticism

 

Contact information
216 Peters Hall
440-775-8658
steve.huff@oberlin.edu


 
News

Culture Festival

Sep. 24, 2011

Come be part of Oberlin's Culture Festival this fall 2011!!!!


Jeffrey Van Davis' Heidegger film, Only a God Can Save Us: Heidegger and Nazism

Mar. 04, 2011

Only a God Can Save Us: Heidegger and Nazism.


German and German Studies majors and minor

Feb. 24, 2010

Please join us on Thursday, April 2nd at 4:30 p.m. to talk about the German and German Studies majors and minor.


German Language and Literatures Summer Stipend Guide

Feb. 22, 2010

The Department of German Language and Literatures will award two Max Kade Summer German Study Awards of $2000 to students pursing German language study during summer 2010.


The Murderers are Among us / Die Mörder sind unter uns (1946)

Feb. 21, 2010

This was the very first film made by the Deutsche Film AG (DEFA) film studio, and it was literally filmed in the rubble of postwar Berlin. The film is shown as part of the series War and Memory, sponsored by the Modern Language Advisory Committee.