Rainer Rumold

Rainer Rumold is the author of The Janus Face of the German Avant-Garde.

From Expressionism to Postmodernism(Northwestern University Press, 2001),

of Gottfried Benn und der Expressionism: Provokation des Lesers, Absolute

Dichtung (Athenaeum/Scriptor, 1982), of Sprachliches Experiment und

Literarische Tradition. Zu den Texten Helmut Heissenbuettels, (Stanford

Series in German Studies, 1975). He is , together with O.K Werckmeister,

editor of The Ideological Crisis of Expressionism (Camden House, 1992)

and, together with Andreas Kramer, editor of Eugene Jolas¹s autobiography,

Man from Babel (Yale University Press,1998).

Professor Rumold has written numerous articles on avant-garde and

modernism in literature and the visual arts, with German expressionism as

a focal point for international relations, on Gottfried Benn, Carl

Sternheim, Carl Einstein, Zurich and Berlin Dada, the dadaist text, the

history and theory of Dada in Central Europe, Franz Kafka, Walter

Benjamin, Bert Brecht, Georg Grosz, Eugene Jolas (translation and

documents), Helmut Heissenbuttel, Gunter Kunert, etc.

His current projects include: Archeo-logies of Modernity. The Visual Turn

of the Avant-garde (Jean Arp, Eugene Jolas, Franz Kafka, Einstein, Walter

Benjamin, Georges Bataille). Articles relating to this forthcoming project

have been published as "Archeo-logies of Modernity in Documents and

transition1929/30," Comparative Literature Studies, vol. 37,1: 2000,

45-67; "Carl Einstein: Die Visuelle Wende der Avant-garde- Gegen

literarische Kultur,² in Die Visuelle Wende der Moderne; "Carl Einstein:

Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts," Munich: Fink Verlag, 2003, 273-288, and

"'Painting as a Language. Why not? Carl Einstein in Documents,² in October

107 Winter 2004, ed. by Sebastian Zeidler, MIT Press, 75-94, and "Eugene

Jolas, Critical Essays 1924-1951," ed. Rainer Rumold & Klaus H. Kiefer (

Evanston: Northwestern University Press, forthcoming Spring 2009)

Rainer Rumold is the general editor of the series at Northwestern

University Press on Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies.

Coeditor with Marjorie Perloff. Rainer Rumold received his PhD from

Stanford University. Other than at Northwestern University, Prof. Rumold

has been a visiting faculty at Stanford University, and taught as Chism

Gould Visiting Professor in the Humanities at the University of Puget

Sound, Wa.