Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • D.Phil., Yale University 2001
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Associate Professor in German Studies, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2020
  • Director of Graduate Studies of Germanic Languages and Literature, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 - 2020
  • Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017
  • Associate Research Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • Germany (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Pickford, Henry W. Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein Expression, Emotion, and Art. Northwestern University Press, 2015.
    • Chapman, Andrew, Addison Ellis, Robert Hanna, Tyler Hildebrand, and Henry W. Pickford. In Defense of Intuitions A New Rationalist Manifesto. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
    • Pickford, H. W. The Sense of Semblance:Philosophical Analyses of Holocaust Art. Fordham Univ Press, 2013.
    • Loseff, Lev. Selected Early Poems of Lev Loseff. Edited and translated by Henry Pickford, n.d.
    • Loseff, Lev. Selected Early Poems of Lev Loseff. Edited and translated by Henry Pickford, n.d.
    • Pickford, Henry, Rüdiger Dannemann, and Hans-Ernst Schiller, eds. Der aufrechte Gang im windschiefen Kapitalismus : Modelle kritischen Denkens, n.d.

  • Academic Articles

    • Pickford, Henry. “Thinking with Kleist:Michael Kohlhaasand Moral Luck.” The German Quarterly 86, no. 4 (October 2013): 381–403. https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.10188.
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    • Pickford, Henry W. “Dialectical Reflections on Peter Eisenman's Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe.” Architectural Theory Review 17, no. 2–3 (August 2012): 419–39. https://doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2012.735636.
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    • Pickford, Henry. “The Last Soviet Photographer.” Raritan 31, no. 3 (2012).
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    • Pickford, Henry W. “Conflict and Commemoration: Two Berlin Memorials.” Modernism/Modernity 12, no. 1 (2005): 133–73. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2005.0048.
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    • Pickford, Henry W. “Critical Models: Adorno's Theory and Practice of Cultural Criticism.” The Yale Journal of Criticism 10, no. 2 (1997): 247–70. https://doi.org/10.1353/yale.1997.0026.
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    • Pickford, Henry. “Heimrad Backer's "System nachschrift" and the philosophy of quotation.” Modern Austrian Literature 41, no. 4 (n.d.).
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    • Pickford, Henry. “Of rules and rails: on a motif in Tolstoy and Wittgenstein.” Tolstoy Studies Journal 22 (n.d.).
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    • Pickford, Henry. “Intuition as a Capacity for a Priori Knowledge.” Philosophical Investigations 13 (n.d.).
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  • Book Sections

    • Pickford, H. W. “Intertextuality as critique in khlebnikov: Towards a reading of “serpent train”.” In A Convenient Territory: Russian Literature at the Edge of Modernity: Essays in Honor of Barry Scherr, 139–59, 2015.

  • Book Reviews

    • Pickford, Henry W. “Tolstoy's Selfie.” Novel. Duke University Press, May 2017. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-3854431.
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    • Pickford, Henry. “Under the Sign of Adorno.” Mln. Johns Hopkins University Press, n.d.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • GERMAN 790-4: Special Topics in German Thought 2021
  • GERMAN 995S: Grad Dissertation Colloquium 2021
  • PHIL 790: Philosophy Special Topics 2021
  • GERMAN 380: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud 2020
  • GERMAN 450S: Ethics and Literature: The Modern German Tradition 2020
  • GERMAN 791: Independent Study 2020
  • GERMAN 995S: Grad Dissertation Colloquium 2020
  • LIT 280: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud 2020
  • PHIL 286: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud 2020
  • PHIL 291: Fall Independent Study 2020
  • POLSCI 378: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud 2020
  • GERMAN 493: Research Independent Study 2019
  • GERMAN 570: Frankfurt School Critical Theory 2019
  • GERMAN 790-4: Special Topics in German Thought 2019
  • GERMAN 791: Independent Study 2019
  • GERMAN 995S: Grad Dissertation Colloquium 2019
  • PHIL 291: Fall Independent Study 2019
  • PHIL 572: Frankfurt School Critical Theory 2019
  • PHIL 790: Philosophy Special Topics 2019
  • POLSCI 570: Frankfurt School Critical Theory 2019

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