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Professor of German and Comparative Literature College of Letters, Arts & Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0353 Office: Taper Hall of Humanities, Room 402H Phone: 213-740-2257 Fax: 213-740-8058 Email: barnouw@usc.edu Ph.D. Yale University 18th-20th century European Studies; intellectual history; history and theory of representation. Professor Barnouw's work has been concerned with some of the central issues of cultural modernity: the role of the intellectual, the question of objectivity and value in the history-based human sciences, the cultural meanings of the sciences; the changing position of women, the challenges of cultural pluralism. Her most recent book publications include: Weimar Intellectuals and the Threat of Modernity (1988); Visible Spaces: Hannah Arendt and the German-Jewish Experience (1990); Critical Realism: History, Photography and the Work of Siegfried Kracauer 1994); Germany 1945: Views of War and Violence (1997). Works in progress: Understanding Strangers. |