Thomas Pfau | Scholars@Duke

Thomas Pfau
Alice Mary Baldwin Distinguished Professor of English

"THOMAS PFAU (PhD 1989, SUNY Buffalo) is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English, with a secondary appointment in the Divinity School at Duke University. He has published some fifty essays on literary, philosophical, and theological subjects ranging from the 18^th through the early 20^th century. In addition to two translations, of Hölderlin and Schelling (SUNY Press, 1987 and 1994), he has also edited seven essay collections and special journal issues and is the author of four monographs: Wordsworth’s Profession (Stanford UP 1997), Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, Melancholy, 1790-1840 (Johns Hopkins UP 2005), Minding the Modern: Intellectual Traditions, Human Agency, and Responsible Knowledge (Notre Dame UP, 2013), and Incomprehensible Certainty: Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image (Notre Dame UP, 2022). He in the early stages of a new book project focused on the relationship between poetry and theology from 1800 to the present.

Office Hours

Fall 2022 Semester:

Wednesday 11:00 am-12:00 pm (312 Allen) and by appointment

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Alice Mary Baldwin Distinguished Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012
Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005
Professor of Historical Theology, Divinity School, Duke University 2013
Bass Fellow, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011

Contact Information

312 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
pfau@duke.edu (919) 684-2741
Books by Thomas Pfau
https://duke.academia.edu/ThomasPfau

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., State University of New York - Buffalo 1989
- M.A., University of California - Irvine 1985
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of German Studies, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005 - 2022
- Director of Graduate Studies of the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021
- Chair in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2017
- Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2014
- Eads Family Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2011
- Eads Family Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005 - 2010
- Associate Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1997 - 2005
- Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998 - 2005
- Assistant Professor, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1991 - 1997
Recognition
In the News
- APR 16, 2020
  
  Poems for this moment
- SEP 11, 2015 the Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  Refugee Crisis Exposes Flaws in EU Fundamentals
- SEP 11, 2015 The News & Observer
  
  Thomas Pfau: How refugee crisis exposes flaws in EU fundamentals
- AUG 14, 2015 Patheos
  
  Q-and-A withThomas Pfau: Threatening naturalism’s universal authority
- AUG 11, 2014 The News & Observer
  
  Duke University forges new educational path with a new campus in China
- MAY 29, 2013
  
  The Humanities: The Next Generation
Awards & Honors
- ACLS Fellows (ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships and ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships). American Council of Learned Societies. 2010
- Fellow. National Humanities Center. 2010
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Selected Grants
- Romancticism & Modernity (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 2009 Conference) awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2008 - 2009
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Pfau, Thomas. Incomprehensible Certainty Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image (Accepted). 2022.
  - Pfau, Thomas, and Vivasvan Soni, editors. Judgment and Action Fragments toward a History. Northwestern University Press, 2017.
  - Pfau, T. Minding the modern: Human agency, intellectual traditions, and responsible knowledge. 2013, pp. 1–675.
  - Pfau, Thomas, and Robert Mitchell. Romanticism and Modernity. Routledge, 2011, pp. 246–246.
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  - Pfau, T., and R. Mitchell, editors. Romanticism and Modernity. Routledge, 2011.
  - Pfau, Thomas, editor. Medium and Message in German Modernism. Vol. 2, 2006, pp. 250pp.-250pp.
  - Pfau, T. Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
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  - Pfau, T. Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion. an anthology of twenty-one essays, Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
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  - Pfau, T. Wordsworth’s Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Romantic Cultural Production. Stanford UP, 1997.
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  - Pfau, T. Idealism and the Endgames of Theory: Three Essays by F. W. J. Schelling. State U of New York P, 1994, p. xiv+293-xiv+293.
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  - Pfau, T., and T. translator. Friedrich Hölderlin: Essays and Letters on Theory. State U of New York P, 1987, p. xiv+186-xiv+186.
  - Pfau, T. Textual and Cultural Dissolution in English Romanticism. Vol. 95.
- Academic Articles
  - Pfau, T. “Kantian Aesthetics as "soft" Iconoclasm.” Logos (United States), vol. 24, no. 3, June 2021, pp. 69–88. Scopus, doi:10.1353/log.2021.0017.
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  - Pfau, T. ““Superabundant being”: Disambiguating Rilke and Heidegger.” Modern Theology, vol. 35, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 23–42. Scopus, doi:10.1111/moth.12458.
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  - Pfau, T. ““Seeing and being seen coincide” freedom as contemplation in Nicholas of Cusa and G. M. Hopkins.” Logos (United States), vol. 22, no. 4, Jan. 2019, pp. 20–41. Scopus, doi:10.1353/log.2019.0028.
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  - Pfau, T. “Expanding Romanticism's Spatiotemporal, Disciplinary, and Conceptual Boundaries.” Keats Shelley Journal, vol. 68, Jan. 2019, pp. 160–62.
  - Pfau, T. “On attention.” Salmagundi, vol. 2017-Spring, no. 194, Mar. 2017, pp. 145–63.
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  - Pfau, T. “"Botched execution" or historical inevitability: Conceptual dilemmas in Brad S. Gregory's the unintended reformation.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 46, no. 3, Sept. 2016, pp. 603–28. Scopus, doi:10.1215/10829636-3644062.
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  - Pfau, Thomas. “A Modern Coleridge: Cultivation, Addiction, Habits.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 55, no. 1, 2016, pp. 134–38.
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  - Pfau, Thomas. “Cosmopolitan Sociality and the Bildungsroman.” Novel, vol. 48, no. 1, Duke University Press, May 2015, pp. 136–39. Crossref, doi:10.1215/00295132-2860453.
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  - Pfau, T. “History without Hermeneutics: Brad Gregory’s Unintended Modernity.” The Immanent Frame, Nov. 2013.
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  - Pfau, T. A Note on the pre-History of European Nihilism: Eroticism and Damaged Life in Don Giovanni. Oct. 2013.
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  - Pfau, T. “Meta language and visual experience in The Stechlin.” German Quarterly, vol. 86, no. 4, Oct. 2013, pp. 421–43. Scopus, doi:10.1111/gequ.10190.
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  - Pfau, T. “review of Tilottama Rajan, Romantic Narrative (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010).” The Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation, Oct. 2013.
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  - Pfau, T. “Epochenwandel mit metaphysischen Anklängen: Metasprache und Bilderfahrung in Der Stechlin.” German Quarterly, vol. 86, 2013, pp. 420–42.
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  - Pfau, T. Mourning Modernity:: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form. Sept. 2012. Scopus, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199228133.013.0032.
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  - Pfau, T. “review of David Collings, Monstrous Society: Reciprocity, Discipline, and the Political Uncanny at the end of Early Modern England (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP).” European Romantic Review, vol. 23, Mar. 2012, pp. 68–73.
  - Pfau, Thomas. “Paul H. Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We AreWordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are. Paul H. Fry . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi+240.” Modern Philology, vol. 108, no. 3, University of Chicago Press, Feb. 2011, pp. E191–94. Crossref, doi:10.1086/659005.
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  - Pfau, T. “Rethinking the image: With some reflections on G. M. Hopkins.” Yearbook of Comparative Literature, vol. 57, Jan. 2011, pp. 117–47.
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  - Pfau, T. Review of Paul Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are. 2011.
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  - Pfau, T. “Bildungsspiele: Vicissitudes of socialization in Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship.” European Romantic Review, vol. 21, no. 5, Oct. 2010, pp. 567–87. Scopus, doi:10.1080/10509585.2010.499006.
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  - Pfau, T., and R. Mitchell. “European Romantic Review: Introduction.” European Romantic Review, vol. 21, no. 5, Oct. 2010, pp. 545–51. Scopus, doi:10.1080/10509585.2010.499004.
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  - Pfau, T. “"All is leaf": Difference, metamorphosis, and Goethe's phenomenology of knowledge.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 49, no. 1, Jan. 2010, pp. 3–41. Scopus, doi:10.1353/srm.2010.0035.
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  - Pfau, T. “The letter of judgment: Practical reason in Aristotle, the Stoics, and Rousseau.” Eighteenth Century, vol. 51, no. 3, Jan. 2010, pp. 289–316.
  - Mitchell, R., and T. Pfau. “NASSR 2009 Conference Volume.” European Romantic Review, vol. 21, no. 3, 2010.
  - Mitchell, R., and Thomas Pfau. ““Romanticism and Form” special issue.” European Romantic Review, vol. 21, no. 5, 2010.
  - Pfau, T. Bildung: Etiology, Function, Structure (with some reflections on Beethoven). Edited by Ulrich Gaier and et al, Bonner Universitätsverlag, 2010, pp. 123–41.
  - Pfau, T. “Review of Colin Jager The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era.” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, No. 25, Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, 2009.
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  - Pfau, Thomas. “The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 48, no. 1, 2009, pp. 159–65.
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  - Pfau, Thomas. “Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Romantic Era.” Comparative Literature, vol. 60, no. 3, Duke University Press, June 2008, pp. 290–94. Crossref, doi:10.1215/-60-3-290.
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  - Pfau, T. “Beyond liberal Utopia: Freedom as the problem of modernity.” European Romantic Review, vol. 19, no. 2, Apr. 2008, pp. 83–103. Scopus, doi:10.1080/10509580802030243.
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  - Pfau, T. “Review of Leon Chai, "Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era".” Comparative Literature, vol. 60, 2008, pp. 290–94.
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  - Pfau, T. From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism. Nov. 2007, pp. 101–22. Scopus, doi:10.1002/9780470996607.ch7.
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  - Pfau, T. “Of ends and endings: Teleological and variational models of romantic narrative.” European Romantic Review, vol. 18, no. 2, Apr. 2007, pp. 231–41. Scopus, doi:10.1080/10509580701297984.
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  - Pfau, T. “The philosophy of Shipwreck: Gnosticism, skepticism, and Coleridge's catastrophic modernity.” Mln Modern Language Notes, vol. 122, no. 5, Jan. 2007, pp. 949–1004. Scopus, doi:10.1353/mln.2008.0042.
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  - Pfau, T. “The Melancholy Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Thought.” Romantic Praxis, 2007.
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  - Pfau, T. “Beyond Liberal Utopia: Freedom in the Nineteenth Century.” European Romantic Review, vol. 19, 2007.
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  - Pfau, T. “Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind: The Political and Aesthetic Economy of the Body in Malthus and Wordsworth.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 95, 2007, pp. 629–69.
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  - Pfau, T. “Review of George S. Williamson, The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche (Chicago: U of Chicago Press).” European Romantic Review, vol. 18, 2007, pp. 439–44.
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  - Pfau, T. “Review of The Wordsworthian Enlightenment, ed. Helen R. Elam & Frances Ferguson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005).” Romantic Circles, 2007.
  - Pfau, T. “Editor’s Introduction: Medium and Message in German Modernism.” Modernist Cultures, vol. 1, no. 2, Oct. 2005, pp. 69–71. Scopus, doi:10.3366/E2041102209000069.
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  - Pfau, T. “From Mediation to Medium: Aesthetic and Anthropological Dimensions of the Image (Bild) and the Crisis of Bildung in German Modernism.” Modernist Cultures, vol. 1, no. 2, Oct. 2005, pp. 141–80. Scopus, doi:10.3366/E2041102209000094.
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  - Pfau, Thomas. “The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy.” Comparative Literature, vol. 55, no. 4, Duke University Press, Sept. 2003, pp. 360–63. Crossref, doi:10.1215/-55-4-360.
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  - Pfau, T. “Conjuring history: Lyric cliché, conservative fantasy, and traumatic awakening in German romanticism.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 102, no. 1, Jan. 2003, pp. 53–92. Scopus, doi:10.1215/00382876-102-1-53.
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  - Pfau, T. "From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism". Edited by Blackwell Companion to Romanticism, Blackwell, 2003.
  - Pfau, T. “Review of Emerson R. Marks, Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory since the Renaissance.” Mlq (2003) ., vol. 60, 2003, pp. 265–67.
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  - Pfau, T. “Review of Ian Balfour’s The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy.” Comparative Literature, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2002, 2003.
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  - Pfau, T. “Review of Angela Esterhammer’s The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism.” Criticism 44.1 (2003): 72 76, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000, 2003.
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  - Pfau, Thomas. “The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (review).” Criticism, vol. 44, no. 1, Project MUSE, 2002, pp. 72–76. Crossref, doi:10.1353/crt.2002.0009.
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  - Pfau, T. “The voice of critique: Aesthetic cognition after Kant.” Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 3, Sept. 1999, pp. 321–52. Scopus, doi:10.1215/00267929-60-3-321.
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  - Pfau, Thomas. “Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory Since the Renaissance.” Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 2, Duke University Press, June 1999, pp. 265–67. Crossref, doi:10.1215/00267929-60-2-265.
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  - Pfau, T. “Review of Terence A. Hoagwood’s Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 38, Carbondale: Northern Illinois UP, 1996, 1999, pp. 692–98.
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  - Pfau, Thomas, and Terence Allan Hoagwood. “Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 38, no. 4, JSTOR, 1999, pp. 692–692. Crossref, doi:10.2307/25601422.
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  - Pfau, T. “Reading beyond Redemption: Historicism, Irony, and the Lessons of Romanticism.” Critical Introduction to Lessons of Romanticism, Duke Up, edited by Thomas Pfau and Robert F. Gleckner, 1998, pp. 1–37.
  - Pfau, T. Paranoian Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials. Edited by Stephen C. Behrendt, Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.
  - Pfau, T. “Bringing about the Past: Prophetic Memory in Kant, Godwin, and Blake.” Romantic Proxis, 1997.
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  - Pfau, T. “'Searching their Hearts': Romantic Pedagogy, Social Ascendancy, and the Pleasures of Surveillance in Andrew Bell and Mary Wollstonecraft.” Romanticism, vol. 2, 1996, pp. 220–46.
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  - Pfau, T. “'Positive Infamy': Surveillance, Ascendancy, and Pedagogyin Andrew Bell and Mary Wollstonecraft.” Romanticism, vol. 2, no. 2, Jan. 1996, pp. 220–42. Scopus, doi:10.3366/rom.1996.2.2.220.
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  - Pfau, T. “''Beyond the suburbs of the mind'': The political and aesthetic disciplining of the Romantic body.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 95, no. 3, 1996, pp. 629–69.
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  - Pfau, T., and R. R. Kercsmar. “Rhetorical and cultural dissolution in Romanticism - Introduction.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 95, no. 3, 1996, pp. 571–73.
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  - Pfau, T. Immediacy and Dissolution: Reflections on Moral Theory and the Logic of Critical Discourse. Edited by Tilottama Rajan and David Clark, Albany: State U of New York P, 1995.
  - Pfau, T. “Review of Martha Woodmansee’s The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 34, New York: Columbia UP, 1995, pp. 490–95.
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  - Pfau, Thomas, and Martha Woodmansee. “The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 34, no. 3, JSTOR, 1995, pp. 490–490. Crossref, doi:10.2307/25601133.
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  - Pfau, Thomas. “"Elementary Feelings" and "Distorted Language": The Pragmatics of Culture in Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads.” New Literary History, vol. 24, no. 1, JSTOR, 1993, pp. 125–125. Crossref, doi:10.2307/469275.
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  - Pfau, T. “The Pragmatics of Genre: Moral Theory and Lyric Authorship in Hegel and Wordsworth.” Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Review, vol. 10, 1992, pp. 397–422.
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  - PFAU, T. “TROPES OF DESIRE, FIGURING THE INSUFFICIENT VOID OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IN SHELLEY 'EPIPSYCHIDION'.” Keats Shelley Journal, vol. 40, 1991, pp. 99–126.
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  - Pfau, T. “Review of Wordsworth's Art of Allusion by Edward Stein.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 29, 1990, pp. 496–99.
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  - Pfau, T. “Immediacy and the Text: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theory of Style and Interpretation.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 51, 1990, pp. 51–73.
  - Pfau, T. “Review of Edwin Stein’s Woodworth’s Art of Illusion.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 29, 1990, pp. 496–99.
  - Pfau, T. “Review of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean Luc Nancy’s The Literary Absolute.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 29, 1990, pp. 309–13.
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  - Pfau, T. “Review of Winfried Menninghaus’s Unendliche Verdopplung: Die Grundlegung der fruhromantischen Kunsttheorie im Begriff absoluter Selbstreflexion.” Mln (German Issue), vol. 104, 1989, pp. 729–33.
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  - Pfau, T. “Thinking before Totality: Kritik, Ubersetzung, and the Language of Interpretation in the early Walter Benjamin.” Mln (Comparative Literature Issue), vol. 103, 1988, pp. 1072–97.
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  - Pfau, T. “Rhetoric and the Existential: Romantic Studies and the Question of the Subject.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 26, 1987, pp. 487–512.
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  - Pfau, T. “Review of Andrej Warminski’s Readings in Interpretation: Holderlin, Hegel, and Heidegger.” Mln (Comparative Literature Issue), vol. 102, 1987, pp. 1212–15.
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- Book Sections
  - Pfau, T. “Absolute Gegebenheit: Image as aesthetic Urphanomen in Husserl and Rilke.” Phenomenology to the Letter: Husserl and Literature, 2020, pp. 227–60. Scopus, doi:10.1515/9783110654585-011.
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  - Pfau, T. “Rational Theology and the Catholic Critique of Modernity, 1780-1830.” The Oxford Handbook on European Romanticism, edited by Hamilton Kings C. Paul and Hamilton Kings C. London, 2014.
  - Pfau, T. “Wagner hören im Zeitalter kultureller Überdetermination: Adorno’s Versuch über Wagner.” Jenseits von Bayreuth: Richard Wagner Heute, edited by Stefan Boernchen and Georg Mein, Fink Verlag, 2014.
  - Pfau, T. “’A certain mediocrity' Moral Sentiments and Early Behaviorism in A. Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments.” Romanticism and the Emotions, edited by Joel Faflak and Richard Sha, Cambridge UP, 2014.
  - Pfau, T. “A certain mediocrity: Adam Smith’s moral behaviorism.” Romanticism and the Emotions, 2012, pp. 48–75. Scopus, doi:10.1017/CBO9781107280564.003.
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  - Pfau, T. “The Appearance of Stimmung: Play as Virtual Rationality.” Stimmung: Zur Wiederkehr Einer Ästhetischen Kategorie?, edited by A. Gisbertz, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2011.
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  - Pfau, T. “The Bildungsroman.” The Blackwell Encylopedia of Romantic Literature, edited by F. Burwick et al., Blackwell, 2011, pp. 124–32.
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  - Pfau, T. “William Paley.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 4 Vols., edited by Frederick Burwick and Nancy Goslee, Blackwell, 2011.
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  - Pfau, T. “Between sentimentality and phantasmagoria: German lyric poetry, 1830–1890.” German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899, vol. 9, 2010, pp. 207–50.
  - Pfau, T. “Bildung: Etiology, Function, Structure (with some reflections on Beethoven).” Die Romantik: Ein Gründungsmythos Der EuropEuropäischen Moderne, edited by Ulrich Gaier, Bonner Universitätsverlag, 2010, pp. 123–41.
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  - Pfau, T. “Mourning Modernity: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form.” The Oxford Handbook on the Elegy, 2009.
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  - Pfau, T. “Rationality as Bewegung: From Kantian Autonomy to Hegel’s Self-Regulating System.” The Blackwell Companion to European Romanticism, edited by M. Ferber, Blackwell, 2005.
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  - Pfau, T. “Nineteenth-Century Lyric German Poetry.” Camden House History of German Literature, Volume 9, edited by Clayton Koelb and Eric Downing, 2005, pp. 201–42.
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  - Pfau, T. “From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism.” In “A Companion to European Romanticism,” edited by Michael Ferber, Blackwell, 2004.
  - Pfau, T. “Nachtigallenwahnsinn and Rabbinismus: Heine’s Literary Provocation to German-Jewish Cultural Identity.” Romantic Poetry: Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, edited by A. Esterhammer, John Benjamins, 2002, pp. 427–44.
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  - Pfau, T. “Paranoia Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials.” Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press, edited by Stephen C. Behrendt, Wayne State University Press, 1997.
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  - Pfau, T. “Paranoian Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials.” Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press, edited by Stephen C. Behrendt, Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.
  - Pfau, T. “Immediacy and Dissolution: Reflections on Moral Theory and the Logic of Critical Discourse.” Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory, edited by Tilottama Rajan and David Clark, Albany: State U of New York P, 1995.
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