John Hoffmeyer

My research focuses on material histories of aesthetic form in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular focus on problems of intermediality and globalization. My dissertation considers historical paradigm shifts in musical and poetic form in connection with transformative conceptions of personal, metaphysical, and political sovereignty across the long nineteenth century. My scholarship has appeared in a variety of journals, including Comparative Literature, MLN, New German Critique, The German Quarterly, and Variaciones Borges.

Department: Comparative Literature