Markus Wilczek is associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Tufts University. He studied German literature and language, political science, sociology, and pedagogy at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen (Staatsexamen, 2000). He came to the United States as a Fulbright scholar, and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins in 2007. His research has previously been supported by grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Harvard University Center for the Environment, where he served as a faculty associate. In addition, Professor Wilczek has been awarded a fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Currently, he is writing a book on literary, philosophical, and economic discourses of Nachhaltigkeit (sustainability) from the eighteenth century to the present. At the Rachel Carson Center, he will continue to work on this project and on a "Poetics of Radioactivity."
RCC Research Project: The History and Function of Sustainability in German Literature from the Early Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century
Lunchtime Colloquium Video - When Our Future Is at Stake: A Poetics of Radioactivity
Selected publications:
- "Water and Words: Narrating Sustainability." Special issue, New German Critique (2014). (forthcoming)
- "The Puppet Inside: Reading Stuffing in Heiner Müller’s Kleist." In Heinrich von Kleist and His Lecacy, edited by Jeffrey High and Sophia Clark, 131–45. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013.
- Das Artikulierte und das Inartikulierte: Eine Archäologie strukturalistischen Denkens. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2012.
- "Ab: Lichtenberg’s Waste." The Germanic Review 87, no. 4 (2012): 305–24.
- "Gegen: Bewegungen durch Goethes Der Mann von funfzig Jahren." Goethe Yearbook 17 (2010): 223–37.