Harald Zils

Associate Professor of German
Director of Undergraduate Studies (German)

Dr. phil. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; DAAD-Lektor and Visiting Assistant Professor at Binghamton University, 2004-2010; since fall 2010 Assistant Professor for German Studies.

Recent courses

• Volkswagen and Beyond: Aesthetics of German Engineering
• Goethe
• Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain
• German Literature and the Cold War
• Übermen and Underlings: Aesthetics of Superiority and of Inferiority
• German Business Cultures
• German Literature after the Wall

Research interests

Anthropological Perspectives on Literature and Philosophy, Technology in Teaching, Aesthetic Theories of Production and Reception, Metaphor and Rhetorics; Ernst Jünger, Arno Schmidt, Rudolf Borchardt.

Contact

hzils@binghamton.edu
Office: Library Tower 1409