David Gordon John Roberts (born 2 December 1937) is an Australian professor of German studies. He was awarded a Ph.D at

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university h ...

in 1968, supervised by Leslie Bodi. His main areas of research are modern German literature, socio-aesthetics of literature and the arts, and the aesthetic theory and cultural history of European modernism.

Awards

* Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 1969, 1981, 1997 * Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities 1986- * Centennial Medal for Service to German Studies in Australia 2001

Editorial activities

* Co-editor ''Thesis Eleven. Critical Theory and Historical Sociology'' 1983- * International Advisory Board, ''Germanistik'' 1987- * International Editorial Board, ''The German Quarterly'' 1988-1994 * Co-editor, “Monash European Studies”, Berg Publishers, Oxford/New York/Hamburg, 1988–1993 * International Advisory Board, “Studies in Contemporary German Literature”, Stauffenburg, Tübingen, 1997–2002 * Advisory Board, ''Limbus. Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies''

Publications

* ''Artistic Consciousness and Political Conscience: The Novels of Heinrich Mann 1900-1938''. Bern, Lang, 1971(Australian and New Zealand Studies in German Language and Literature 2) * ''Kopf und Welt: Elias Canettis Roman “Die Blendung”''. München, Hanser Verlag, 1975 (“Literatur als Kunst”, ed. Walter Höllerer) * ''The Indirections of Desire. Hamlet in Goethes Wilhelm Meister''. Heidelberg, Carl Winter Verlag, 1980 (“Reihe Siegen”, ed. Helmut Kreuzer & Karl Riha * ''Art and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory after Adorno''. Lincoln, London, University of Nebraska Press, 1991 (Modern German Culture and Literature, ed.

Peter Uwe Hohendahl Peter Uwe Hohendahl (born 1936) is a literary and intellectual historian and theorist. He served as the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies at Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research u ...

) . Reissued as paperback 2005 ** See review article: Max Pensky, “Choosing Your Mask”, ''New German Critique'' 63 (1994), 161-180 * ''Dialectic of Romanticism. A Critique of Modernism''. With Peter Murphy, London: Continuum, 2004 * 'Canetti’s Counter-Image of Society. Crowds, Power, Transformation''. With Johann P. Arnason, 'Rochester, N.Y., Camden House, 2004. * ''The Total Work of Art in European Modernism.'' Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011 (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought ed. Peter Hohendahl) See review article: Roger Fornoff, ‘At the Interface of Art, Religion, Politics‘, Thesis Eleven 123 (2014), 123-128. * ''History of the Present: The Contemporary and its Culture.'' London, Routledge, 2021. * ''Science Fiction and Narrative Form.'' With Andrew Milner and Peter Murphy, London, Bloomsbury, 2023.

References

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