David Tse-Chien Pan (born 1963) is an American literary scholar and Professor of German at the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, U ...

. He is known for his works on

German literature German literature () comprises those literature, literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy ...

and

intellectual history Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualization, conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of ...

. Pan was a member of the Commission on Unalienable Rights. In 2024, he was the Republican candidate for U.S. representative of

California's 46th congressional district California's 46th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California. It has been represented by Democrat Lou Correa since 2017, when he succeeded Loretta Sanchez, who retired to run for the U.S. Senate. The di ...

Books

* ''Sacrifice in the Modern World: On the Particularity and Generality of Nazi Myth'', Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2012. 184 pp. * ''Kleists Erzählungen und Dramen: Neue Studien''. Edited with Paul Michael Lützeler. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2001. 263 pp. * ''Primitive Renaissance: Rethinking German Expressionism''. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. 239 pp.

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