Richard Langston 
 Associate Professor, Germanic & Slavic Lang & Lit 
 Germanic & Slavic Lang & Lit, CB#3160 
 (919) 843-9156 
 relangst@email.unc.edu 
 http://gsll.unc.edu/people/current-faculty/richard-langston
Appointed Year: | 2002
Tenured: | Yes
Education: | Doctorate (2002), Washington University in St. Louis

World Area of Focus:

• International 100%
• Western Europe/European Union (EU) 100%

Languages: | • German (native/bilingual proficiency)

Specialization:

West German Literature and Culture, 1945 - Present
Avant-Garde Studies
Intellectual History
Film and Philosophy

Distinctions: | German Film Institute, Fellow, University of Michigan, August 2008. John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Recycling Seminar Fellow, Duke University, 2007-2008 (Irwin and Carol Belk/First Union Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Arts and Humanities) Semester Research Leave, UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 2005 Spray-Randleigh Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2003-2004
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years: | 7
Relevant Courses Taught: | Aesthetics & Politics of the Avant-Garde, Society & Culture of Postwar Germany, Twentieth-Century German Philosophy, German Guilt, Suffering, and Trauma, Avant-Garde Cinema, History of German Cinema, Literature of the Fin de Siecle, German Bodies, The Frankfurt School, Utopia,

Recent Publications:

• 2016 “Eyes Wide Open: Thee Look of Obstinacy, the Gaze of the Camera, and the 24/7 Economy in Antja Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Labour in a Single Shot (2011-2015).” Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature. 40.2 (Summer 2016). Forthcoming in June 2016.
• 2016 “’Das ist die umgekehrte Flaschenpost’: Zwei Interviews mit Oskar Negt und Alexander Kluge.” Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch. Vol. 2: Glassplitter: Echoes of a Message in a Bottle. Ed. R. Langston. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2015. 47-75.
• 2016 “Editorial.” Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch. Vol. 2: Glassplitter: Echoes of a Message in a Bottle. Ed. R. Langston. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2015. 9-14.
• 2016 Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch. Vol. 2: Glass Shards: Echoes of a Message in a Bottle. Ed. R. Langston. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2015. 331 pp. € 40.00 paperback.
• 2015 “Permanent Catastrophe and Everyday Life: Remediation of the Political in Kluge’s Vermischte Nachrichten and Chernobyl Broadcasts.” In: Alexander Kluge- Jahrbuch. Vol. 1. Eds. Christian Schulte, Richard Langston, Gunther Martens, Vincent Pauval and Rainer Stollmann. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2014. 101-123.
• 2015 Alexander Kluge- Jahrbuch. Vol. 1. Eds. Christian Schulte, Richard Langston, Gunther Martens, Vincent Pauval and Rainer Stollmann. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2014. 375 pp. € 39.99 paperback.
• 2015 Kluge, Alexander and Oskar Negt. “Elements of a Political Economy of Labor Power.” October 149 (Summer 2014): 9-34.
• 2015 Kluge, Alexander and Oskar Negt. History and Obstinacy. Ed. Devin Fore. Trans. R. Langston et al. New York: Zone Books, 2014. 542 pp. $39.95 Hardcover.
• 2010 “Palimpsests of Sixty-Eight: Critical Theory, Labor, and Aesthetics after Adorno.” After Sixty-Eight. Eds. Anesh Anesh and Daniel Sherman. Twenty First Century Studies Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Forthcoming in 2010.
• 2009 “Digital Negation and the Fate of Shock after the Avant-Garde.” After the Digital Divide: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media. Eds. Lutz Koepnick and Erin McGlothlin. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2009. 131-152.
• 2009 “The Tunguska Manifesto: The “Trilogy of Film Criticism” and the Cinematic Origins of Schlingensief’s Disruption of Reality.” Christoph Schlingensief: Art without Borders. Eds. Tara Forrest and Anna Teresa Scheer. Forthcoming in 2009.
• 2009 “The Art of Barbarism and Suffering.” The Art of the Two Germanys During the Cold War. Eds. Stephanie Barron, Eckhart Gillen and Sabine Eckmann. Exhibition Catalogue. January 25–April 19, 2009. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Forthcoming in 2009.
• 2008 Visions of Violence: German Avant-Gardes after Fascism. Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies Series. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008. 
• 2008 “The Work of Art As Theory of Work: Relationality between Weiss and Negt & Kluge.” Germanic Review 83.3 (Summer 2008). 195-215.
• 2008 “Schlingensief’s Peep-Show: Post-Cinematic Spectacles and the Public Space of History.” After the Avant-Garde: Engagements with Contemporary German Experimental Film: An Anthology. Eds. Reinhild Steingröver and Randall Halle. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2008. 204-223.
• 2007 “Peter Weiss and the Exilic Body.” Modernism/modernity 14.2 (April 2007): 273-290.
• 2007 “Affective Affinities: Sebald and Kluge on Feeling History.” Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch 7 (2007): 44-68.
• 2006 “Feels Like Teen Spirit: Teaching Cultural Difference through The Body, Affect, and Gender.” Women in German Yearbook 22 (2006): 94-118.
• 2005 “Escape from Germany: Disappearing Bodies and Postmodern Space in Christian Kracht’s Prose.” German Quarterly 79.1 (Winter 2005/6): 50-70.
• 2004  “Roll over Beethoven, Chuck Berry, Mick Jagger, etc.: Rock, Identity and the Illusion of Progress in the West German Literary Imagination.” Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture. Eds. Nora M. Alter and Lutz Koepnick. London and New York: Berghahn, 2004. 183-196.