Ph.D., Stanford University
Alys George
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor, Department of German
20th- and 21st-century Austrian and German literature, cultural history, and visual culture; European modernisms; fin-de-siècle Vienna; Austria-Hungary; history of the body; silent film; early 20th-century dance; medical humanities
Alys George is the recipient of NYU’s Golden Dozen Teaching Award (2014) and Stanford University’s Centennial Teaching Award (2004). Her research has been supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research (Franz Werfel Fellowship; Richard Plaschka Fellowship), NYU’s Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowship, the Dietrich W. Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies, the Austrian Cultural Forum and German Studies Association, a Fulbright research grant, the IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften/International Research Center for Cultural Studies (Junior Fellowship), Stanford University’s School of Humanities and Sciences, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the Stanford Digital Humanities Lab.
Selected Publications
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020
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Central European History 51.4 (2018): 535–62.
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Austrian Studies 25 (2017): 198-214.
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Kritische Berichte 45.1 (2017): 15-18.
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Noch einmal anders: Zu einer Poetik des Seriellen. Eds. Elisabeth Bronfen, Christiane Frey, and David Martyn. Zurich: Diaphanes, 2016. 181-198.
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Ed. Stephen Ross et al. London: Routledge, 2016.
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Austrian Studies 23 (2015): 16-34.
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Annotated critical edition, with scholarly introduction (pp. 7-21), of previously unpublished correspondence, including newly discovered letters by Hofmannsthal, Scofield Thayer, Marianne Moore, Alyse Gregory et al.Hofmannsthal Jahrbuch zur europäischen Moderne 22 (2014): 7-68.
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Die Bühnen des Richard Teschner. Ed. Kurt Ifkovits. Vienna: Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, 2013. 158-181.
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Interwar Vienna: Culture between Tradition and Modernity. Eds. Deborah Holmes and Lisa Silverman. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2009. 143-60.
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Review essays and book reviews in Journal of Austrian Studies, German Studies Review, and Fotogeschichte
Contact Information
Alys George
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor, Department of German alys.george@nyu.edu 19 University Place, Room 323Phone: (212) 998-8654
Office Hours: by appt.