Background
Pages' current research projects include a book-length study on memorials and commemorative practices; articles on Peter Handke; Stanley Kubrick; Søren Kierkegaard as a critic and reader; and Kafka.
He has recently taught the undergraduate courses Kafka and His Readers; Freud as/in Literature; Madness and Genius; German Cultural History, 1871-1989; German Lit's Greatest Hits: The Modern Novel; Literature/War/Memory; Austrian Literature: Nation, Memory, Identity.
Pages' graduate seminars include: Toward a History of Reading; Reading W.G. Sebald; Kafka and His Readers; Søren Kierkegaard's Literary Texts, and Commemoration/Representation.
Education
- PhD, MA, New York University
- BA, University of Vienna
Research Interests
- Germanophone and Scandinavian Languages and Literatures
- European Cultural History, Commemorative Practices
- Translation
- Comparative Modernisms
- Text and Image, the Habsburg Empire
Awards
- Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching 2005-2006
