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Oliver Simons is Professor and Department Chair of Germanic Languages at Columbia University. He earned his Dr. phil. from Humboldt University in Berlin in 2005, specializing in German literature, cultural studies, and philosophy.
His research explores interdisciplinary connections between literature and science, post-colonial studies, 18th-century literary conclusions, and literary theory. Key thematic focuses include textual endings in German Romanticism and spatial concepts in modern thought.
He has authored several influential books, including Literary Conclusions (on poetics of endings), Raumgeschichten (2007), and Literaturtheorien zur Einführung (2009). He also co-edited volumes on Kafka, German colonialism, and Ingeborg Bachmann. Currently, he is editing the journal The Germanic Review and completing two monographs: Reading as Method and Understanding Theory.
