Carl NiekerkCarl Niekerk received his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis and is currently Professor of German with affiliate appointments in French, comparative and world literature, and Jewish studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ince 2016, he is the editor of The German Quarterly and, since 2012, a co-editor of the Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch. He is the author of Reading Mahler: German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010; second edition [paperback] 2013) and books on Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and J. W. von Goethe. His teaching and research interests include the Radical Enlightenment, early anthropology, German- and Austrian-Jewish cultural history, psychoanalysis and culture, colonialism and postcolonialism, world literature, and comparative Dutch studies. Read More Read Less