Max Reinhart's major areas of research are Early Modern Germany (ca. 1400-1700) and Late Goethe (post 1809). He is author or editor of eight books, including Early Modern German Literature 1350-1700, volume 4 of the new Camden House History of German Literature. He has secondary interests in music history, especially the German Lied of the 19th century and J. S. Bach, and in Early Christianity and Late Empire. With the linguist Jared S. Klein, he is translator and editor of Schalom Ben-Chorin's classic study Brother Jesus: The Nazarene through Jewish Eyes with University of Georgia Press. His articles appear in international journals, collections, and lexica. Reinhart was the founder (1991) and first president of Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär (FNI) - an interdisciplinary society for early modern German studies - its president through 1995, and director of the first international conference of FNI at Duke University; was president (1997) of the Society for German Renaissance & Baroque Literature (SGRABL); serves on the editorial board of the Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies monograph series; is American correspondent for the Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik; is a former head of UGA's Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages; and is a member of the Advisory Board of the UGA Music Business Program.
Courses:
GRMN 3220 The Age of Reformation
GRMN 3810 Literature in Music, Music in Literature
GRMN 4510 Special Topics: The Literary Language of J. S. Bach
GRMN 6200 Early Modern German Literature, 1400-1700
GRMN 8410 Proseminar: Text and Interpretation |
Recent Publications:
Editor: Early Modern German Literature . Vol. 4 of Camden House History of German Literature. 10 vols. Rochester and London: Boydell & Brewer, 2007. |
| Georg Philipp Harsdörffer: "Lamentation for France" and Other Polemics on War and Peace: The Latin Pamphlets of 1641-1642 . Edited, translated, with introduction, commentary, and indexes. Renaissance & Baroque: Studies & Texts. New York: P. Lang, forthcoming 2008. |
"Der Detektiv in der Geschichte: Richard Alewyn und das Problem der Frühen Neuzeit." Daphnis: Zeitschrift für Mittlere Deutsche Literatur 34, nos. 3-4 (2005): 381-428. |
| "Ein treuer Sammler seines Vaterlands: Patriotisches Gedenken in Johann Helwigs Sacrarium bonae memoriae Noribergensium consecratum." In Festschrift für Klaus Garber: Regionaler Kulturraum und intellektuelle Kommunikation: Studien zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte Alteuropas. Ed. Axel Walter. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 733-57. |
Current Projects:
My work on late Goethe concerns mainly the theme of Weltliteratur (especially the Chinese, Islamic, and American areas). I continue to pursue my early modern research, but with special interest in the young G. P. Harsdörffer and his Latin writings as well as the art of intertextual reading of 17th-century narrative. |
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Max Reinhart
A. G. Steer Professor in Goethe Studies
(Ph.D., Ohio State University)
Office: 207 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 542-2444
E-mail: reinhart@uga.edu
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| Photo © 2007 Danielle Hutlas |
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