College:听St Edmund's
Email:听tc502@cantab.ac.uk
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*Latest Position: BA Postdoctoral Fellow,
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Research
Thomas Crew鈥檚 doctoral research focuses on German dystopian literature. Until now, such literature has been subsumed under the much broader and poorly defined utopian genre. As a result, German dystopianism has not yet been identified as a coherent cultural phenomenon. A primary aim of the project is therefore to establish the field of dystopian research in the German context. The study centres on four works, which are representative of the genre: Bernhard Kellermann鈥檚 novel Der Tunnel (1913), Georg Kaiser鈥檚 Gas plays (1917鈥�1920), and two works by Ernst J眉nger: Der Arbeiter (1932) and Gl盲serne Bienen (1957). Close attention is also paid to various contemporary thinkers, from the industrialist Walther Rathenau and the anarchist Gustav Landauer to the conservative philosophers Friedrich Georg J眉nger and Martin Heidegger. Dr Crew鈥檚 next major research project investigates critical conceptions of progress during the age of Classical Modernity, 1880鈥�1939.听
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Scholarships/Prizes
Hanseatic Scholarship, 2020-21.
Vice Chancellor鈥檚 and St Edmund鈥檚 Luzio Scholarship, 2017-20.
London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) Masters Studentship, 2015-16.
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Teaching
Lecturer for the modules on Heidegger and Adorno, GE2: German History and Thought since 1750.
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Conference Papers
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'"The world is a machine, man an automaton": Friedrich Georg听J眉nger's Perfection of Technology', given at Automation & Automatism/s, King's College London, January 2023.
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'Prophecy and Apocalypse at the Fin de Si猫cle: Alfred Kubin's听The Other Side', given at Nightmare/s in the Long Nineteenth听Century, King's College, 海角社区, May 2022.听
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鈥楾he Age of Mechanization and the Failure of Utopia: Georg Kaiser鈥檚 Gas Trilogy鈥�, given at the Lead Panel of the Association for German Studies conference, Swansea University, September 2021.
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鈥榁isions of Dystopia in German Literature鈥�, chair of panel at the Association for German Studies annual conference, Swansea University, September 2021.
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Academic Publications
- '"Civilization is听Sterilization": Utopia, Biopolitics and the Total Society in Horkheimer and Adorno's听Dialectic of Enlightenment听and Aldous Huxley's听Brave New World', in: R. Marling and M. Pajevic (eds),听Care, Control and Covid-19: Health and Biopolitics in Philosophy and Literature,听Berlin: De Gruyter 2023, pp.听59-90.听
- '"Nie hatte ein Mensch etwas 脛hnliches gesehen oder ertr盲umt!": Bernhard Kellermanns Der Tunnel und das Spektakel Amerikas', in: K. Dahlmanns and A. Jachimowicz (eds), Geliebtes, verfluchtes Amerika. Zu Antiamerikanismus und Amerikabegeisterung im deutschen Sprachraum 1888-1933, G枚ttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2022, pp. 27-39.
- 鈥樷�淗ow to become what you are鈥�: Self-Becoming and Individuation in Nietzsche鈥檚 Ecce Homo and Hesse鈥檚 Demian and Steppenwolf鈥�, Journal of European Studies 51, 1 (March 2021), pp. 3-23.
- 鈥楨rnst J眉ngers Gl盲serne Bienen und der 脺bergang zur Perfektion鈥�, Berliner Debatte Initial 31, 1 (April 2020), pp. 72-84.
- 鈥樷�淒er Tag h盲ngt tot zwischen Himmel und Erde鈥�: On the theme of Ambivalence in Ernst Barlach鈥檚 鈥淒er tote Tag鈥�, German Life and Letters 72, 2 (April 2019), pp. 168-186.
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Other Publications
- ,听The Critic听(September 2020)
- ,听UnHerd听(June 2020)
- ,听Varsity听(March 2018)
