Russell A. Berman, the Walter A. Haas Professor in the
Humanities at Stanford University, is a senior fellow at the Hoover
Institution.
Berman specializes in the study of German literary history and
cultural politics. He is a member of both the Department of German
Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford.
From 1992 through 2000 he served as director of the Stanford
Overseas Studies Program. He is currently chair of the Department
of Comparative Literature.
He is the author of numerous articles and books including
Enlightenment or Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture
(1998) and The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma
(1986), both of which won the Outstanding Book Award of the German
Studies Association (in 1987 and 2000, respectively). Hoover
Institution Press published his books Freedom or Terror: Europe
Faces Jihad (2010) and Anti-Americanism in Europe: A Cultural
Problem (2004). His other books include Cultural Studies of Modern
Germany: Representation and Nationhood (1993), Modern Culture and
Critical Theory: Art, Politics and the Legacy of the Frankfurt
School (1989), and Between Fontane and Tucholsky: Literary
Criticism and the Public Sphere in Wilhelmine Germany (1983). He
has published numerous articles in Hoover Digest.
Berman has received many honors and awards including a Mellon
Faculty Fellowship at Harvard University (1982–83), an Alexander
von Humboldt Fellowship (1988–89), and the Bundesverdienstkreuz of
the Federal Republic of Germany (1997).
Berman received his B.A. in 1972 from Harvard and his doctorate
from Washington University in 1979.
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