Alexander Stephan

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Alexander Stephan is Professor of German, Ohio Eminent Scholar, and Senior Fellow of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University. Previously he taught at Princeton University, the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Florida.

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Books (selection):

Überwacht, ausgebürgert, exiliert. Schriftsteller und der Staat. Bielefeld, in press, 2007.
Im Visier des FBI. Deutsche Exilschriftsteller in den Akten amerikanischer Geheimdienste. Stuttgart, 1995, rev. pb. Berlin, 1998, engl. as 'Communazis.' FBI Surveillance of German Emigré Writers. New Haven, 2000.
Anna Seghers: 'Das siebte Kreuz'. Welt und Wirkung eines Romans. Berlin, 1997.
Anna Seghers im Exil. Bonn, 1993.
Max Frisch. München, 1983.
Christa Wolf. München, 1976, 4th, enl. and rev. ed. 1991.
Die deutsche Exilliteratur. München, 1979.

Edited volumes (selection):

America on my mind. Zur Amerikanisierung der deutschen Kultur seit 1945 (with Jochen Vogt). München, 2006.
The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945. New York, 2006.
Das Amerika der Autoren. Von Kafka bis 09/11 München, 2006.
Exile and Otherness: New Approaches to the Experience of the Nazi Refugees. Oxford, 2005.
Refuge and Reality: Feuchtwanger and the European Émigrés in California (with Pól O’Dochartaigh). Amsterdam, 2005.
Americanization and Anti-Americanism. The German Encounter with American Culture After 1945. New York, 2005.
Anna Seghers, Die Entscheidung. Roman. Werkausgabe, vol. I, 7. Berlin, 2003.
Döblin, L. Feuchtwanger, A. Seghers, A. Zweig, Early 20th Century German Fiction. New York, 2003, pb. 2003.
Jeans, Rock und Vietnam. Amerikanische Kultur in der DDR (with Therese Hörnigk). Berlin, 2002.
‘Rot = Braun’? Brecht Dialog 2000. Nationalsozialismus und Stalinismus bei Brecht und Zeitgenossen (with Therese Hörnigk). Berlin, 2000.
Uwe Johnson, Speculations About Jakob and Other Writings. New York, 2000, pb. 2000.
Themes and Structures. Studies in German Literature from Goethe to the Present. A Festschrift for Theodore Ziolkowski. Columbia, 1997.
Ulrich Plenzdorf, Günter Kunert, Anna Seghers, and others, The New Sufferings of Young W. and Other Stories from the German Democratic Republic (with Therese Hörnigk). New York, 1997, pb. 1997.
Christa Wolf: The Author’s Dimension. Selected Essays. New York and London, 1993; Chicago, 1995.
Exil. Literatur und die Künste nach 1933. Bonn, 1990.
Schreiben im Exil. Zur Ästhetik der deutschen Exilliteratur 1933-1945 (with Hans Wagener). Bonn, 1985.
Peter Weiss. Die Ästhetik des Widerstands. Frankfurt, 1983, 2nd ed. 1987, 3rd ed. 1990.
Editor of Exilstudien/Exile Studies. A Monograph Series. New York, Oxford, 1993ff. (vols. 1-10, vols. 11 in preparation).

TV and radio (selection):

Left Behind: Popular culture, religiöser Fundamentalismus und Politik in den USA des George W. Bush, TV lecture, Germany, 2005.
Thomas Mann und der CIA, TV documentary, Germany, 2002.
Exilanten und der CIA, TV documentary, Germany, 2002.
Brecht und das FBI, TV documentary, Germany, 2001.
Im Visier des FBI. Deutsche Autoren im US-Exil, TV documentary (with Johannes Eglau), Germany, 1995.