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Michael Stern

Associate Professor of German & Scandinavian
Director of Undergraduate Studies Scandinavian
German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
mjstern@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4126
Office: 112B Mac Court, 1250 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026, M 12-1 and by appointment
Research Interests: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Western European Intellectual History, Africana philosophy, literature, and film, 19th Century Scandinavian Literature and film, decolonial thought
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Research

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

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

Africana philosophy, literature, and film, 19th Scandinavian literature, and film, decolonial thought.

Recently published monograph: Thinking Nietzsche with Africana Thought: Towards an Alluvial Poetic of Worlding

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. 

Alluvia Poetics: an expansion of the conception of Alluvial poetics developed in Thinking Nietzsche with Africana Thought which situates the memoirs 

of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and Wole Soyinka in conversation with the thought of Édouard Glissant.

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