Professor
Literary and cultural studies (animal studies, Romanticism, gender
studies, homeopathy)
Video
Biography
Born
in
Hamilton,
Ontario.
Lived
in
Mississauga,
Ontario
1966-1978.
Professor
of
German
and
Comparative
Literature
at
the
University
of
North
Carolina,
Chapel
Hill
1983-2008.
Visiting
Guest
Professor
at
Princeton
University
(1990),
Rutgers
University
(2002),
and
University
of
Minnesota
(2006).
Guest
Lecturer
at
Harvard
University,
Cornell
University,
Indiana
University,
Washington
University,
University
of
Washington,
University
of
California,
Davis,
University
of
California,
Berkeley,
Brandeis
University,
Iowa
State
University,
University
of
Pittsburgh,
University
of
Toronto,
York
University.
Alexander
von
Humboldt
Fellow.
Chair
in
Croatian
Studies
2010-12.
Professor
of
German
at
the
University
of
Waterloo
since
2008
and
cross-appointed
with
English.
University
Research
Chair
at
the
University
of
Waterloo.
Education
- PhD (Princeton)
- MA (Princeton)
- BA (Toronto)
Selected publications
Books
Kuzniar,
Alice.
The
Birth
of
Homeopathy
out
of
the
Spirit
of
Romanticism. University
of
Toronto
Press,
2017.
Recipient
of
the
2017 Hans-Walz-Förderpreis
für
Arbeiten
zur
Homöopathiegeschichte,
Institut
für
Geschichte
der
Medizin
der
Robert
Bosch
Stiftung.
Kuzniar,
Alice.
Melancholia’s
Dog:
Reflections
on
Our
Animal
Kinship.
University
of
Chicago
Press,
2006.
Kuzniar,
Alice. The
Queer
German
Cinema.
Stanford
University
Press,
2000.
Kuzniar,
Alice,
ed.
Outing
Goethe
and
His
Age.
Stanford
University
Press,
1996.
Kuzniar,
Alice. Delayed
Endings:
Nonclosure
in
Novalis
and
Hölderlin.
Athens
GA:
University
of
Georgia
Press,
1987. Winner
of
the
1985
South
Atlantic
Modern
Language
Association
Award
Competition.
Recent articles
Kuzniar,
Alice. “'Infinitesimalmedizin' bei
Novalis
und
Hahnemann.”
Forthcoming
in
Blütenstaub
-
Jahrbuch
für
Frühromantik
6
(2018).
Kuzniar,
Alice. “Hesitancy
and
Hovering: Irony,
Camp,
and
Fetishism"
in
Mädchen
in
Uniform.
Forthcoming
Seminar.
Kuzniar,
Alice. “Precarious
Sexualities:
Queer
Challenges
to
Psychoanalytic
and
Social
Identity
Categorization.”
Clinical
Encounters
in
Sexuality:
Psychoanalytic
Practice
and
Queer
Theory. Ed.
Noreen
Giffney
and
Eve
Watson.
Punctum
books,
2017. 51-76.
Kuzniar,
Alice. “Nikolaus
Geyrhalter’s
Unser
täglich
Brot:
Preservation,
the
Food
Industry,
and
the
Interrogation
of
Visual
Evidence.” Exhibiting
the
German
Past: Museums,
Film,
and
Musealization. Ed.
Gabriele
Mueller
and
Peter
McIsaac.
University
of
Toronto
Press,
2015.
63-80.
Kuzniar,
Alice. “Irena
Vrkljan’s
Autobiographical
Prose
between
Zagreb
and
Berlin
(A
Critique
of
a
Monolingual
Germanistik.” Seminar
49.3
(2013):
261-80.
Kuzniar,
Alice. “Where
is
the
Animal
after
Posthumanism? Quivering
Life
in
Sue
Coe’s
Art.” Special
Issue
of
The
New
Centennial
Review,
edited
by
David
Clark,
on
“The
Animal
.
.
.
in
Theory”
11.2
(2011): 17-40.
Teaching
Graduate classes
-
Dark Romanticisms
- Becoming Animal
- From Freud to Lacan: Psychoanalysis in Literary and Visual Studies
- German Romanticism
- German Romantic Ecology
- Deviant Desires in 19th-Century Short Prose Fiction
Undergraduate classes
- Introduction to World Cinema
- German Romantic Tales: Grim(m), Occult, Uncanny
- Global Queer Cinema
- German Film Classics
- Lola, Lotte, and Lulu: Women in German Cinema