About

Amir Eshel is the Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies, Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. As of 2019, he serves as the Director of the Comparative Literature graduate program. His affiliations at Stanford include the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Modern Thought & Literature, and The Europe Center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Eshel's research focuses on contemporary literature and the arts, particularly their intersections with philosophy, memory, history, political thought, and ethics. He is the author of several books, including 'Poetic Thinking Today' (2019) and 'Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past' (2013), and has co-edited works on German-Hebrew dialogue, Hannah Arendt, and Barbara Honigmann. His earlier scholarship includes studies on Jewish poets, Israeli prose, and essays on prominent writers and artists such as Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Paul Celan, and Gerhard Richter. Eshel has published poetry, including a bilingual Hebrew-German collection, and has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt and Friedrich Ebert foundations, as well as the Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Geology

Selected publications

• LAYERED TIME

  Duke University Press eBooks · 2020

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Computer Science
  • Geology
  • Computer Science
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• Acknowledgments

  Fordham University Press eBooks · 2020

  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science
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• Part Three. Futurity and Action

  2019-12-31

  article1st authorCorresponding
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• Part One. Coming to Terms with the Future: German Literature in Search of the Past

  2019-12-31

  article1st authorCorresponding
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• Part Two. Writing the Unsaid: Hebrew Literature and the Question of Palestinian Flight and Expulsion

  2019-12-31

  article1st authorCorresponding
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• Poetic Thinking Today

  2019-11-30

  article1st authorCorresponding
  Publisher

• Introduction: Spelling out Futurity

  2019-12-31

  article1st authorCorresponding
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• Beyond Metaphysics: B'Tselem / In the Image - on Literature and the Arts in Our (Post) Secular Age

  2018-02-26

  article1st authorCorresponding
  Publisher

• The German-Hebrew Dialogue: Studies of Encounter and Exchange (Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts)

  2018-02-09

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• The German-Hebrew Dialogue

  2017-12-18 · 4 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Yfaat Weiss

  5 shared

• Rachel Seelig

  3 shared

• H. G. Elrod

  Saybrook University

  2 shared

• Alexander R. Lowe

  University of Silesia in Katowice

  2 shared

• Thomas Sparr

  2 shared

• Richard Sieburth

  New York University

  1 shared

• T. G. Kennedy

  1 shared

• Harold Bloom

  1 shared

Labs

• Taube Center for Jewish Studies Graduate StudentsPI

Awards & honors

• Award for Distinguished Teaching from the School of Humaniti…
• Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• Fellowship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation