Gerhard Richter, who holds degrees in German and Comparative Literature, joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin after earning his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1996. He was promoted to Associate Professor of German with tenure in 2001. An Affiliate Professor in Comparative Literature and in Integrated Liberal Studies, he also teaches for the DAAD Center for German and European Studies and is a faculty member of the programs in European Studies, Global Studies, and Visual Culture. Recent undergraduate and graduate courses include “Frankfurt School Critical Theory,” “Trauma-Writing-Mourning: After Freud,” “Literature and Photography,” “The Writing of the Disaster: Cultural Representations of the Holocaust in Europe and the United States,” “How to Read a Text? Language, Culture, and the Question of Interpretation (Marx to Derrida),” and “’Europe’: The Very Idea” (with Jacques Lezra). Richter’s research and teaching focus on modern German literature, culture, and thought; literary and cultural theory; literature and philosophy; political aspects of media culture; technologies of representation (especially photography); history and politics of aesthetic theory; intellectual history (18th to 21st centuries); Frankfurt School and French thought; and comparative literary studies. The recent recipient of an H.I. Romnes Research Fellowship, Richter was a visiting scholar at the Universität zu Köln (Cologne, Germany) during the spring semester 2004. In 2004-05 he will co-direct an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Workshop on “Adorno and Late Philosophical Modernity” for faculty and doctoral students through the UW’s Center for the Humanities.