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Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey~~Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature. Leading American critic on the work of Franz Kafka. Published widely on modern writers and thinkers, most recently Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine (2011).  Made substantial scholarly contributions to the field and translated and edited three major works in the Norton Critical Edition series: The Metamorphosis (1996), Kafka's Selected Stories (2006), andThe Sufferings of Young Werther (2012).  Coedited a translation of Kafka's main office writings (2009), with additional studies forthcoming, including an intellectual biography of the philosopher Walter Kaufmann. Other research topics include German literary aesthetics and intellectual history, such as philosophical aesthetics in the age of Goethe; Hölderlin and his critics: Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, and Celan; and lyric poetry at the turn of the twentieth century. Founder, Princeton Kafka Consortium, in cooperation with Humboldt University of Berlin and Oxford University. Recipient, Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities. Visiting Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge (2009); Fellow, American Çï¿ûÊÓƵ in Berlin (2010).