Bio
Bryan Norton is a member of the Stanford Society of Fellows, where he is currently completing a monograph on political ecology and technical media in German romanticism. He is the co- editor of a forthcoming volume on Bernard Stiegler, and his writings have appeared in Theory, Culture and Society, Symphilosophie, the Goethe Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts, and the LA Review of Books. In 2022, Norton received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. He has held visiting appointments at Goethe University Frankfurt, Humboldt University Berlin, and Paris Viii.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, German Studies
Honors & Awards
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Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main (2019-2020)
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Berliner Luftbrückenstipendium, Steuben-Schurz-Gesellschaft (2019)
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MWW Internationale Sommerschule Travel Grant, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (2018)
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DAAD Graduate Research Fellowship, Universität zu Köln (2015-2016)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Member, DFG Research Netzwerk ,,Aktuelle Perspektiven der Romantikforschung" (2021 - Present)
Professional Education
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PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory (2022)
Projects
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Fragments of the Concrete: Technical Media and Political Ecology in German Romanticism
Location
Stanford
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Negentropy and the Future of Exteriorization, Stanford/Duke
for Bernard Stiegler
Location
Paris
2023-24 Courses
- German Philosophy and Theory After 1945
GERMAN 236 (Spr) - Green Germany
GERMAN 137 (Aut) -
Prior Year Courses
2022-23 Courses
- Marx: Politics and Culture
GERMAN 153, GERMAN 335 (Spr) - Media Theory and the Sea
FILMEDIA 234, GERMAN 234, GERMAN 334 (Win)
- Marx: Politics and Culture
All Publications
- Technology after Hegemony: On Yuk Hui’s Art and Cosmotechnics Los Angeles Review of Books. 2022
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Veloziferisch (Veloziferian)
Goethe Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts
2021: 113-120
View details for DOI 10.5195/glpc.2021.25.
- Review of Amanda Jo Godstein. Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life. University of Chicago Press, 2017 Goethe Yearbook. 2021 385-386
- Review of Erich Hörl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt, eds., Critique and the Digital. Diaphanes, 2021 Theory, Culture and Society. 2021
- Geschlecht, Sinnfeld, Kontingenz: zur Ontologie in Dorothea Schlegels Florentin Symphilosophie 2020: 115-129
- Melville and the Media: A Conversation with Bernhard Siegert, Markus Krajewski, and Harun Maye Los Angeles Review of Books. 2019
- “The Anthropocene at the Fair.” The World on View: Objects from Universal Expositions, 1851-1915 edited by Dombrowski, A., Moqtaderi, H. G. Arthur Ross Gallery. 2018