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Michael Stern

Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian
Director of Undergraduate Studies Scandinavian
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
mjstern@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4126
Office: 204 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Spring 2023: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00pm-1:00pm and by appointment
Research Interests: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Western European Intellectual History, African literature, film, and thought, 19th Century Scandinavian Literature.
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Research

BA, MA, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley

Interests: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Aesthetics, Western European Intellectual History,

African literature, film, and thought, and 19th Scandinavian literature.

Currently soliciting: Alluvia, a monograph that places Nietzsche in copnversation with African and Caribbean thought.

Currently working on: 

The Singing Socrates addresses the legacy of Socrates in 19th Century thought as

it relates the notions of subjectivity, value creation, history, and the split between 

the conceptions of the ancient and of the primitive.