Samuel Weber
Departments of German and of French and Italian

Samuel Weber, (Ph.D. Cornell, Dr. Habil. Free University of Berlin), Avalon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Professor of German, Adjunct Professor of French and Director of the Northwestern Paris Program in Critical Theory. His main research and teaching interests are: the relation between philosophy, literature and art; psychoanalytical theory; theater; the media. He is the author of Unwrapping Balzac: A Reading of la Peau de chagrin (1979); The Legend of Freud (1982); Institution and Interpretation (1987); Mass Mediauras (1996); and the editor of Demarcating the Disciplines: Philosophy, Literature, Art (1986), Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination (1997) and Relgion and Media (with Hent de Vries, 2001). In addition to his academic work, he has served as a "dramaturg" in various opera and theater productions in Germany. These include stagings of Wagner's "Parsifal" and "The Ring," as well as more recently, Mozart's "Magic Flute" and Genet's "Balcony." He has recently delivered lectures in Singapore, Brisbane, Sydney, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Kassel, Sussex, London, McMaster, Toronto, Santa Barbara, NYU, Torino, Bologna, Amsterdam, Leuven.

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