Robert Holub received his Ph . D . from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979 and taught in the German Department at the University of California , Berkeley , from 1979 until 2006 . He chaired Berkeley ’ s German Department from 1991-1997 and was Dean of the Undergraduate Division in the College of Letters and Science from 2003-2006 . From 2006-08 he served as Provost at the University of Tennessee , Knoxville , and from 2008-2012 he was Chancellor of the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts .
His scholarly work has focused on nineteenth and twentieth-century intellectual , cultural , and literary history with special interest in Heinrich Heine , German realism , Friedrich Nietzsche , literary and aesthetic theory , Jürgen Habermas , and Vergangenheitsbewältigung . He is currently working on a project that situates Nietzsche ’ s thought in the context of social and scientific developments in nineteenthcentury Europe . Read More .
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Living in the Past , Preparing for the Future
Robert C . Holub , The Ohio State University
Robert Holub received his Ph . D . from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979 and taught in the German Department at the University of California , Berkeley , from 1979 until 2006 . He chaired Berkeley ’ s German Department from 1991-1997 and was Dean of the Undergraduate Division in the College of Letters and Science from 2003-2006 . From 2006-08 he served as Provost at the University of Tennessee , Knoxville , and from 2008-2012 he was Chancellor of the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts .
His scholarly work has focused on nineteenth and twentieth-century intellectual , cultural , and literary history with special interest in Heinrich Heine , German realism , Friedrich Nietzsche , literary and aesthetic theory , Jürgen Habermas , and Vergangenheitsbewältigung . He is currently working on a project that situates Nietzsche ’ s thought in the context of social and scientific developments in nineteenthcentury Europe . Read More .