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Christopher J. Wild

Christopher J. Wild

· Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, and the College; Associate Faculty in the Divinity School

University of Chicago · Germanic Studies

Active 1949–2025

h-index45
Citations13.9k
Papers36135 last 5y
Funding$45.6M

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About

Christopher J. Wild is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, and the College at the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University, obtained in 1997. His research interests include Early Modern and Enlightenment German Literature and Culture, Theater and Performance Studies, Religion, Philosophy, and Literature, as well as Literary and Cultural Theory. His work is situated at the intersection of literature, theater history, philosophy, and religious thought, with a focus on the role and impact of religious thought and practice in modern and secular processes, as well as the mediality and formal semantics of European and German theater from ancient Greece through Modernism. Before joining the University of Chicago in 2008, Wild taught at UNC-Chapel Hill and UCLA, and held a visiting professorship at the University of Konstanz. His first book, 'Theater der Keuschheit - Keuschheit des Theaters,' explores the historical transformation of theatricality in German theater from the Baroque to Classicism, emphasizing the influence of religious thought on Enlightenment literature and culture. His upcoming book examines Descartes’ Meditative Turn, analyzing the religious genre framing of Descartes’ thought, while his next project investigates how religious media reform initiated by Martin Luther and others paved the way for modern media technologies. Wild has advised students on…

Research topics

  • Computer Science
  • Data science
  • Political Science
  • Statistics
  • Biology
  • Algorithm
  • Virology
  • Internal medicine
  • Immunology
  • Mathematics education

Selected publications

  • Descartes’ Meditative Turn

    Stanford University Press eBooks · 2024-03-19 · 10 citations

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    Why would René Descartes, the father of modern rationalist philosophy, choose "meditations"—a term and genre associated with religious discourse and practice—for the title of his magnum opus that lays the metaphysical foundations for his reform of all knowledge, including mathematics and sciences? Why did he believe that the immortality of the soul and the existence of God, which the Meditations on First Philosophy set out to demonstrate, can only be made self-evident through meditating? These a…

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  • Computational Skills by Stealth in Secondary School Data Science

    arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020-10-08 · 4 citations

    preprintOpen accessSenior author

    The unprecedented growth in the availability of data of all types and qualities and the emergence of the field of data science has provided an impetus to finally realizing the implementation of the full breadth of the Nolan and Temple Lang proposed integration of computing concepts into statistics curricula at all levels in statistics and new data science programs and courses. Moreover, data science, implemented carefully, opens accessible pathways to stem for students for whom neither mathemati…

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  • Reflections on a 20-year statistics education research journey, 1999–2019

    set Research Information for Teachers · 2020-06-12 · 1 citations

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  • Frontmatter

    Berghahn Books · 2022-10-11

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  • Symphony Orchestra's "Sweet Dreams" Concert

    Digital Commons - Andrews University (Andrews University) · 2020-01-01

    articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

    The first piece the Symphony Orchestra will perform, Debussy's "Prlude l'aprs-midi d'un faune," was composed in 1894 after Debussy's family had firsthand experience with the devastation caused by the Franco-Prussian War.The young composer was eager to develop a musical style that would differ from the latest crazes, such as Richard Wagner's operas, in Germany and Austria.As a result, "Prlude l'aprs-midi d'un faune" is brief rather than long, light rather than heavy, and also exceedingly flexible…

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    Georgetown University

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