M.A., Johann-Wolfgang- Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt (Philosophy
and German Literature); M.Phil., Ph.D. Columbia University, New
York. Teaching and research interests in modern and contemporary
German and Austrian literature, Romanticism, literary theory,
media aesthetics, and literature and music. Dr. Schönherr
is the author of Das Unendliche Altern der Moderne. Untersuchungen
zur Romantrilogie Gert Jonkes (Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 1994),
and scholarly articles on Kafka, Adorno, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gert
Jonke, Marcel Beyer, and Peter Handke. He is currently working
on a new book project: Hearing-Writing-Silence: Musico-Acoustic
Imaginations in Contemporary German-Austrian Literature . (E-Mail:
uschoenh@haverford.edu)
