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Friedrich Ulfers

Associate Professor

Education

Ph.D. 19th- and 20th-century German literature 1968 and M.A. 1961, New York University; B.B.A. 1959, City College.

Areas of Research/Interest

German Romanticism; 20th-century novel (Franz Kafka, Robert Musil); post-classical philosophy and its relation to modern science

External Affiliations

American Association of Teachers of German, American Association of University Professors, Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Britain, Modern Language Association, North American Nietzsche Society, Northeast Modern Language Association.

Fellowships/Honors

Distinguished Teaching Medal (NYU), 2001; Great Teacher Award (NYU), 1991; Golden Dozen Teaching Award (NYU), 1989, 1998; Heights Colleges Faculty Hall of Fame Award (NYU), 1994; Bundesverdienstkreuz (Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany) for the commitment to the support of German-American exchange in the areas of culture and education, 2013

Prizes founded by Friedrich ulfers

Friedrich Ulfers Prize
An annual award that honors a leading publisher, writer, or translator, whose work advances German–language literature in the United States.

Ulfers Foundation Award
Given in recognition of the promotion and highlighting of German culture and history.

The Auguste Ulfers Memorial Prize

Awarded to a student for excellence and accomplishment in German studies (language, literature, or literature in translation).

Selected Publications

Books

Untersuchungen zum Doppelgängermotiv in der deutschen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. New York: New York University Press, 1968.

Toward a New Metropolitanism: Reconstituting Public Culture, Urban Citizenship, and the Multicultural Imaginary in New York and Berlin. Ed. Friedrich Ulfers (with Günter Lenz and Antje Dallmann). Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2006.

Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Dionysian Vision of the World from Univocal Publishing: A conversation with Nietzsche scholar Professor Ulfers, who wrote the introduction, and translator Ira J. Allen. Deutsches Haus at NYU, November 25, 2013.

ARTICLES

“Nietzsche’s Panpsychism as the Equation of Mind and Matter” (with Mark Cohen) - International Conference on “Nietzsche on Mind and Nature.” Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind. St. Peter's College, Oxford University. Forthcoming 2018.

“Zarathustra, the Moment, and the Eternal Recurrence of the Same: Nietzsche's Ontology of  Time” (with Mark Cohen). Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Before Sunrise. Ed. James Luchte. London: Continuum, 2008.

“Nietzsche’s ‘Amor Fati’ - The Embracing of an Undecided Fate” (with Mark Cohen). Poiesis - A Journal of the Arts and Communication 9 (2007).

“Von der Skepsis zur Utopie: Musils Idee des ‘Essaysismus’’’. Skeptizismus und literarische Imagination. Ed. Bernd Hüppauf and Klaus Vieweg. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003.