Thomas Claviez - Biography#

Thomas Claviez is currently Professor for Literary Theory and Director of the Center for Cultural Studies (CCS) at the University of Berne.

He is the author of Grenzfälle: Mythos – Ideologie – American Studies (Trier: wvt, 1998) and Aesthetics & Ethics: Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to House Made of Dawn (Heidelberg: Winter, 2008). He is the co-editor of “Mirror Writing”: (Re-)Constructions of Native American Identity (Glienicke/Cambridge: Galda + Wilch Verlag, 2000) (with Maria Moss), Theories of American Studies/Theories of American Culture, REAL-Band Nr. 19 (Tübingen: Narr, 2003) (with Winfried Fluck), Neo-Realism: Between Innovation and Continuation, special issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2004) (with Maria Moss) and Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006) (with Ulla Haselstein and Sieglinde Lemke). His has edited a collection of essays with the title The Conditions of Hospitality which is forthcoming with Fordham UP.

He has published essays on Pragmatism, Ecology, American Studies, American literature, Ethics and Aesthetics, and Native and African American literature. Currently he is working on a monograph with the title A Metonymic Society? Towards a New Poetics of Community.

For further information, see http://www.claviez.de.