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David B. Suchoff
Professor of English
English


Office: Miller Library 312
Phone: 207-859-5286
Fax: 859-5252
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Mailing Address:
5286 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8852

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Tu and Th 10:45-12:00, W 2-3

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Education

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, U.C. Berkeley

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Professional Information

David Suchoff received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley, and is Professor of English at Colby College. He is author of Critical Theory and the Novel: Mass Society and Cultural Criticism in Dickens, Melville and Kafka (University of Wisconsin Press, 1994), editor, with Mary Rhiel, of The Seductions of Biography (Routledge, 1995), and has published on theory, as well as American, British, Israeli, and Yiddish literature. He is a translator of and author of the Introductions to Alain Finkielkraut's The Imaginary Jew (1994) and The Wisdom of Love (1995); his translation of and Introduction, with Willi Goetschel, to Hermann Levin Goldschmidt?s The Legacy of German Jewry was published by the Fordham University Press in 2007. His new book Kafka's Jewish Languages: The Hidden Openness of Tradition will appear with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2012.

Publications

On Franz Kafka, "A Country Doctor"

Read About Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia (1951)

David Suchoff on the Legacy of German Jewry

Critical Theory and the Novel provides a useful introduction to Benjamin and Adorno and their uses in practical criticism. It is also a study of the historical origins of literary theory and cultural criticism and a contribution to the expanding field of Cultural Studies. University of Wisconsin Press.


"Smuggling in the Warsaw Ghetto" by Peretz Opoczynski, Introduction and Translation by David Suchoff, Pakn Treger: Magazine of the National Yiddish Book Center, Fall 2006/5767, no. 52, pp. 32-37.


"Kafka's Languages: Hebrew and Yiddish in The Trial and Amerika, in Doris Sommer, ed., Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations (New York: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2003), pp. 251-274.

David Suchoff and Willi Goetschel, ?Das Verm?chtnis des deutschen Judentums: Hermann Levin Goldschmidts unzeitgem??e Betrachtung,? Neue Rundschau 116, Jahrgang 2005:4, December 2005, pp. 168-173.

David Suchoff, "Kafka's Jewish Languages: The Hidden Openness of Tradition," Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 15:2, 2007, pp. 65-132.

The Legacy of German Jewry, by Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, Translated by David Suchoff, Introduction by Willi Goetschel, and David Suchoff, $50.00, ISBN: 9780823228263, Fordham University Press, 224 pages, 2007.

David Suchoff, "Franz Kafka, Hebrew Writer: The Vaudeville of Linguistic Origins," Nexus: The Duke German and Jewish Studies Yearbook, 2012.

David Suchoff, Kafka's Jewish Languages: The Hidden Openness of Tradition, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

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