Martina Kolb holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University, an M.A. in German from the University of Oregon, as well as a graduate degree (Staatsexamen) in Modern Philology, and undergraduate degrees in German, English, Italian and French from Tuebingen University. She wrote her dissertation under the direction of Professors Harold Bloom and Peter Brooks — Journeys of Desire: Liguria as Literary Landscape in Montale, Pound and Benn —, and was an Instructor in the German Department at Yale, as well as for courses in Ancient Philosophy, Literary Theory, Detective Fiction, Modern Poetry and Comparative Literature. Before joining Penn State’s German Department in 2007, Martina Kolb taught three semesters at Bilkent University in Turkey, and was the recipient of a number of awards, among them a Giles Whiting Foundation Dissertation Prize Fellowship in the Humanities, her Graduate Affiliation at the Whitney Humanities Center, a Fondazione Maria e Goffredo Bellonci Fellowship, two Beinecke Library Fellowships, and two Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Universities of Konstanz (ZWN) and Bologna (ISA) respectively, where she also taught proseminars on geopoetics. Her research and teaching interests are German and comparative poetics and aesthetics; international and cross-disciplinary modernism; modern theater between Orient and Occident; the Frankfurt School: poetry after Auschwitz; psychoanalysis, narratology and detective fiction. Martina Kolb has presented invited papers on a variety of visual-verbal encounters, among them Goethe's travelogues, Freudian dream interpretation, Benjamin's translation theory, Dante and Kafka's metamorphoses, and Shelley's Frankenstein. Her publications include articles on the Uncanny in Uwe Johnson's Manhattan Auto-Topography, Ezra Pound's Prison Poetry, and Bert Brecht's Appropriations of Oriental Theater. She currently works on a book on Mediterranean poetics. Office: 416 Burrowes (865-0068). E-mail: muk23@psu.edu