Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor of Literature at Stanford University. Among his books on literary theory and literary and cultural history are Eine Geschichte der spanischen Literatur (1990; Spanish translation forthcoming); Making Sense in Life and Literature (Minnesota University Press, 1992); In 1926--Living at the Edge of Time (Harvard University Press, 1998); Corpo e forma (Italy / Mimesis, 2001); Vom Leben und Sterben des großen Romanisten (Germany/Hanser, 2002), The Powers of Philology (University of Illinois Press, 2003), and Production of Presence (Stanford University Press, 2004), and In Praise of Athletic Beauty (forthcoming at Harvard Press, spring 2006). He is a regular contributor to the Humanities-section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, NZZ (Zürich), and the Folha de São Paulo. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Professeur attaché au Collège de France, and has been a Visiting Professor at numerous universities on several continents, most recently at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.

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