Henrik S. Wilberg

Education

• 2016 - Ph.D. – Northwestern University (IL), German Literature and Critical Thought.
  • Thesis: Language Before Critique. Figures of Aesthetics from Leibniz to Herder.
  • Advisor: Samuel M. Weber.
    Graduate Certificates in Critical Theory and Teaching Excellence
    
• 2007 - Mag. Phil. – Universität Wien (Austria)
  • Deutsche Philologie (Hauptfach); Romanische Philologie, Philosophie (Nebenfächer)

Teaching and Research Interests

• German literature and philosophy around 1800
• Early 20th century German thought
• Austrian literation (early 20th century and post-1945)
• Logic and poetics
• Critical theory
• Political theology
• Psychoanalytic theory and practice 

Courses Taught

• GER 101: Beginning German
• GER 102: Beginning German
• GER 151: The German-American Experience 
• GER 201: Second Year German
• GER 202: Second Year German 

Selected Publications and Presentations

Book Chapters

• “Émile Benveniste.” In: Agamben’s Philosophical Lineage. Eds. Adam Kotsko and Carlo Salzani (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 117-124
• “Friedrich Hölderlin.” In: Agamben’s Philosophical Lineage. Eds. Adam Kotsko and Carlo Salzani (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 146-153.

Book Reviews

• “Sarah Pourciau, The Writing of Spirit: Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science.” The Germanic Review, 2019 (forthcoming)

Articles

• “Absehen: Disregarding Literature (Husserl / Hofmannsthal / Benjamin).” In: Phenomenology to the Letter. Eds. Philippe Haensler, Kristina Mendicino, Rochelle Tobias (De Gruyter, “Textologie”, 2020), 133-148. 

Presentations

• Lessing’s Political Forms, German Studies Association Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, October 2019
• “Nothing but Language”. On Werner Hamacher, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, March 2019

Invited Lectures

• Disregarding Literature. “Phenomenology and Literature: New Readings in Husserl”, Brown University and Johns Hopkins University joint event, German Department, Brown University, Providence, RI, May 2018

Languages

• Anishinaabe-Ojibwemowin (basic)
• Danish
• English (near native)
• French (near native)
• German (near native)
• German-Middle High
• Greek-Ancient
• Italian
• Latin
• Norwegian (native)
• Old Norse/Icelandic
• Portuguese (good reading proficiency)
• Spanish (very good working proficiency)
• Swedish (near native)