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                       UniversitŠt Wien            

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

1976                             UniversitŽ de Paris (Sorbonne)

1975 - 76                       Princeton University

1975                 B.A.     University of Pennsylvania - English Literature

1973 - 75           Haupt-   Freie UniversitŠt Berlin - German Literature

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1972 - 73                       University of Pennsylvania

 

ACADEMIC HONORS

2006                             Zentrum fŸr Literaturforschung Fellowship

2005                             Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship (Wiederaufnahme)

1998                             DAAD Short-Term Grant

1991, Õ93, Õ96                 Center for German & European Studies Grant, UC Berkeley

1989, Õ91, Õ92, Õ93, Õ95    Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Award, UC Santa Barbara

1985 - 86, Õ88, Õ89          Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellowship

1984 - present                 Humanities Institute Fellow

1984                             RegentsÕ Junior Faculty Fellowship

1982                             RegentsÕ 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, UmeŒ University, Sweden – ÒTechno FeminismÓ and ÒThe Mines of Falun: Explorations of WhatÕs MineÓ

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena – ÒTranshumanityÓ and ÒDevil Father MineÓ

European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland – ÒEndopsychic AllegoriesÓ and ÒDevil May SignÓ

UCSB – ÒBack to Frankfurt School,Ó ÒAristocriticism,Ó ÒGotta Read Goethe,Ó ÒHegel With Shmear,Ó ÒSchiller: The Ghost Seer,Ó  ÒGhost MediaÓ

Designed and taught the following undergraduate courses:

Otis College of Art and Design – ÒGhostbuster and Gadget Lover, the Dandy and the VampireÓ

UniversitŠt zu Kšln – ÒThe Devil LecturesÓ

UCSB – ÒSatan and Dad Certainty,Ó ÒOn the Superhuman,Ó ÒPsy Fi,Ó ÒFantasy,Ó ÒThe CreatureÓ

 

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 ÒVampirism in Literature and Beyond,Ó ÒPsycho,Ó ÒDe Palma and Romero,Ó ÒLoving the DeadÓ

 

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

Hired to teach theory at the graduate level, I regularly taught the Òtheory seminar,Ó 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 ÒThe Purloined LetterÓ). Designed and taught undergraduate courses on ÒThe Faust Tradition,Ó ÒGerman Expressionist Cinema,Ó ÒFassbinder,Ó ÒFreud and LiteratureÓ

 

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

Designed and taught undergraduate seminars on ÒPainting in LiteratureÓ and ÒPeter HandkeÓ

 

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                             ComitŽ international de prŽparation. Les Etats GŽnŽraux 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