Dr. John Hoffmann
Assistant Professor; Visiting Faculty
Business and Economics, The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics
Email: johoffmann@chapman.edu
- Education:
- St. John's College, Bachelor of Arts
University of Chicago, Master of Arts
Johns Hopkins University, Master of Arts
Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D.
Biography
John Hoffmann is a comparatist with a particular interest in cultural contact between
Germany and Anglophone countries in the modernist period (1890-1955). His work ranges
between film and literature, and he has published articles in Film History, New Literary
History, Modernism/modernity, and diacritics. He is also the author of Modernism,
Aesthetics and Anthropology (Cambridge UP, forthcoming). His current project is a
study of the idea of adversaries and “adversarial culture” in German non-fiction cinema
of the midcentury.
Before coming to Chapman, he held positions at the University of Konstanz and the Philipps-Universität Marburg. His work has been supported by grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought, and the Modernist Studies Association, where he is the co-organizer of the Film Studies Special Interest Group.
Before coming to Chapman, he held positions at the University of Konstanz and the Philipps-Universität Marburg. His work has been supported by grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought, and the Modernist Studies Association, where he is the co-organizer of the Film Studies Special Interest Group.