Affiliated Researcher Dr. John Hoffmann

I'm a comparatist with a particular interest in cultural contact between Germany and Anglophone countries in the modernist period (1890-1955). After receiving my PhD (English) from Johns Hopkins University, I held positions at the University of Konstanz, the University of Marburg, and Chapman University before joining the Anglistisches Seminar in Heidelberg for a Habilitation. My first book Modernism, Aesthetics and Anthropology was published in 2025 by Cambridge University Press. I am also the editor of  Modernism and Its Continents, a volume of essays forthcoming with the Hopkins Studies in Modernism series at Johns Hopkins University Press. My current book project, “Adversarial Images: Conflict as Cultural Practice,” is a study of wartime and post World War II newsreels made in Germany and Japan.

My work has been supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Eigene Stelle, 2020-2023), the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought, and the Modernist Studies Association, where I am the founder and current co-organizer of the Film Studies Special Interest Group.

Contact: john.hoffmann@as.uni-heidelberg.de