Donald L. Wallace, Assistant Professor

Intellectual History of Europe

Email:  dwallace@usna.edu
Phone: 410-293-6289

Education:

• Ph.D. - University of California, San Diego
• M.A. - George Mason University
• M.A. - University of Maryland
• B.A. - Randolph-Macon College

 Publications:

"The Obscure Sea Change: Hermann Broch, Fascism, and the United States" in The Fruits of Exile, edited by Richard Bodek (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2009).

Selected Presentations:

"Aesthetics of Fascism: Herman Broch and Walter Benjamin." Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, December 2007.

"German Orientalism? Karl Neumann, Hugo von Hofmannstal, and Translation." German Studies Association, San Diego, CA, October 2007.

"Ethics and the Individual in Herman Broch's Die Verzauberung."  American Historical Association, Atlanta, GA, January 2007.

"Letters from Exile: Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Hermann Broch."  German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI, October 2005.

Professional Associations:

German Studies Association                                                                         American Historical Association

Honors and Awards:

Fulbright Scholar, Vienna, Austria 2001-2                                                              NEH Summer Seminar, Rome, Italy 2006

Current Research:

"Hugo von Hofmannsthal and The East." (Article in progress)

"Hermann Broch and Walter Benjamin: Ethical Politics and Art." (Article in progress)

Empire Makers: Intellectuals and Empire from Rome to the United States (book in progress)