The Arendt Center Welcomes Dr. Thomas Wild

The Hannah Arendt Center is pleased to announce that Thomas Wild, a premiere Hannah Arendt scholar, will be a Research Associate at the Center this coming fall. Wild has been named Assistant Professor of German at Bard College and will begin teaching next semester.

Dr. Thomas Wild studied German literature and culture as well as political science in Berlin, and Munich, where he received his Ph.D. He has taught at institutions of higher learning in Germany, at Vanderbilt University, and at Oberlin College.  Dr. Wild's research and teaching focus on twentieth-century German literature and film, the political dimensions of culture, art and thought, as well as contemporary developments in German media and society after 1989. Among his many publications are a monograph on Hannah Arendt's relationships with key postwar German writers such as Uwe Johnson, Ingeborg Bachmann, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Hilde Domin, and Rolf Hochhuth; an "intellectual biography" of Hannah Arendt; and an edition of Thomas Brasch's poetry. Most recently, he co-edited Arendt's conversations and correspondence with the eminent German historian and political essayist Joachim Fest. Additionally, he is a literary critic and cultural correspondent for the major German dailies Süddeutsche Zeitung and Der Tagesspiegel.