CURRICULUM VITAE

Laurence Arthur Rickels

University of California - Santa Barbara,

Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies

Santa Barbara, California 93106

Telephone: 805-893-2131

8400 De Longpre Avenue #209

West Hollywood, California 90069

Telephone: 323-822-9706

EDUCATION

1991 - 94 M.A. Antioch University - Clinical Psychology

1979 - 80 Ph.D. Princeton University - German Literature

1978 - 79 Universität Wien

1977 - 78 M.A. Princeton University - German Literature

1976 Université de Paris (Sorbonne)

1975 - 76 Princeton University

1975 B.A. University of Pennsylvania - English Literature

1973 - 75 Haupt- Freie Universität Berlin - German Literature

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1972 - 73 University of Pennsylvania

ACADEMIC HONORS

2006 Zentrum für Literaturforschung Fellowship

2005 Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship (Wiederaufnahme)

1998 DAAD Short-Term Grant

1991, ’93, ’96 Center for German & European Studies Grant, UC Berkeley

1989, ’91, ’92, ’93, ’95 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Award, UC Santa Barbara

1985 - 86, ’88, ’89 Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellowship

1984 - present Humanities Institute Fellow

1984 Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship

1982 Regents’ Humanities Fellowship Award

1980 DAAD Short-Term Grant

1978 - 79 Austrian Government Grant

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

1990 - present Professor of German and Comparative Literature, UC Santa Barbara

Designed and taught the following graduate seminars:

Art Department, Umeå University, Sweden – “Techno Feminism” and “The Mines of Falun: Explorations of What’s Mine”

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena – “Transhumanity” and “Devil Father Mine”

European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland – “Endopsychic Allegories” and “Devil May Sign”

UCSB – “Back to Frankfurt School,” “Aristocriticism,” “Gotta Read Goethe,” “Hegel With Shmear,” “Schiller: The Ghost Seer,” “Ghost Media”

Designed and taught the following undergraduate courses:

Otis College of Art and Design – “Ghostbuster and Gadget Lover, the Dandy and the Vampire”

Universität zu Köln – “The Devil Lectures”

UCSB – “Satan and Dad Certainty,” “On the Superhuman,” “Psy Fi,” “Fantasy,” “The Creature”

1986 - 90 Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, UCSB

Selected and taught various topics in psychoanalytic, deconstructive, and critical theory at the graduate level. Designed and taught undergraduate courses on “Vampirism in Literature and Beyond,” “Psycho,” “De Palma and Romero,” “Loving the Dead”

1981 - 86 Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature, UCSB

Hired to teach theory at the graduate level, I regularly taught the “theory seminar,” each time with a focus on another complex of readings (for example the debate between Derrida and Lacan on the status of the letter in “The Purloined Letter”). Designed and taught undergraduate courses on “The Faust Tradition,” “German Expressionist Cinema,” “Fassbinder,” “Freud and Literature”

1980 - 81 Lecturer, German Studies, University of Düsseldorf, Germany

Designed and taught undergraduate seminars on “Painting in Literature” and “Peter Handke”

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

2003 - present Founding Editor of art/US

2001 - 02 Acting Department Chair, UC Santa Barbara

2000 - 2003 Editorial Board of Art / Text magazine

2000 Comité international de préparation. Les Etats Généraux de la Psychanalyse.

1997 - 99 Board of Directors, Byrd Hoffman Foundation, New York

1996 - present Adjunct Professor of Art Studio, UCSB

1996 - present Adjunct Professor of Film Studies, UCSB

1995 - present Founding member of the UC Psychoanalytic Consortium.

1992 - 95 Executive Committee, Semiotic Society of America

1989 - 97 Advisory Committee of Summer Institute of

German Language and Culture, UCSB

1986 - 96 Member, Film Studies Program Advisory Committee, UCSB

1991 - 93 Elected Delegate to Assembly, Modern Language Association

1989 - 95 Department Chair, UCSB

1990 - 92 Adjunct Professor, College of Creative Studies, UCSB

1986 - 87 College Committee on the Development of the

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB

1986 Founding Member, International Initiative on Technology

and the Unconscious, UC Humanities Research Institute