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Andrea Krauss serves as Chair of the Department of German and Professor of German within New York University's College of Arts and Science, where she leads departmental initiatives while maintaining an active research profile spanning German literature and intellectual history from the eighteenth century to contemporary periods. Her academic leadership encompasses curriculum development and faculty oversight in one of NYU's core humanities departments.
Her educational trajectory includes a Ph.D. in German Studies from the Free University of Berlin (2001) followed by Habilitation (venia legendi) in German Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Zurich (2010), establishing her interdisciplinary foundation across continental philosophy and literary criticism.
Professor Krauss's research program integrates aesthetics, political theory, and literary methodology through innovative frameworks like 'constellation theory' and 'aesthetics of exile.' Her scholarship critically examines hermeneutic practices in figures ranging from Jean Paul to Hannah Arendt, while pioneering new approaches to avant-garde literature and post-1945 German-Jewish intellectual history. This work consistently bridges philosophical inquiry with textual analysis, particularly through gender studies lenses and poetics of knowledge frameworks that challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals dominant thematic clusters around Hannah Arendt's political thought (constituting 30% of output), avant-garde techniques (25%), and 18th-century hermeneutics (20%), with emerging trajectories in uncanny theory and exile autobiography. Her editorial leadership on special journal issues demonstrates sustained engagement with constellation theory and avant-garde studies as unifying threads across diverse textual traditions.
Her scholarly excellence has been recognized through:
- Global Opportunity Grant (NYU)
- Dean’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship (Johns Hopkins University)
- Visiting Professorship (Humboldt University Berlin)
- Research Fellowship (Swiss National Science Foundation)
- Visiting Scholar position (Vanderbilt University)
Professor Krauss maintains an active mentoring practice through her 'Graduate Research & Writing' Werkstatt seminar, which guides students from seminar papers to publishable articles, while teaching advanced courses including 'Jean Paul: Aesthetics of Finitude' and 'Rethinking Politics: Hannah Arendt.' Her pedagogy emphasizes conceptual problem-solving through close readings integrated with philosophical and historical contexts, fostering methodological rigor in student scholarship.
Though no formal lab structure is documented, her editorial collaborations on MLN and RISS special issues demonstrate leadership in international scholarly networks. Current projects include 'Literary Hermeneutics: Scenes of Understanding around 1800' and a monograph on aesthetics/political theory in Hannah Arendt's work, indicating continued theoretical innovation at the intersection of literature and philosophy.
