{"id":8790,"date":"2023-09-13T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/?p=8790"},"modified":"2023-10-15T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T18:04:18","slug":"erica-weitzman-lecture-body-shaming-obscenity-materiality-and-the-ontology-of-german-realist-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/2023\/09\/13\/erica-weitzman-lecture-body-shaming-obscenity-materiality-and-the-ontology-of-german-realist-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Weitzman lecture: Body Shaming: Obscenity, Materiality, and the Ontology of German Realist Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Erica Weitzman<\/strong> (PhD, Comparative Literature, NYU, 2012) is Associate Professor of German at Northwestern University. She is the author of <em>Irony\u2019s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition<\/em>&nbsp;(Northwestern University Press, 2015) and co-editor of the volume <em>Suspensionen. \u00dcber das Untote<\/em>&nbsp;(Fink, 2015). Her most recent book, <em>At the Limit of the Obscene: German Realism and the Disgrace of Matter<\/em> (Northwestern University Press, 2021), examines the concept of obscenity as a question of representation, perception, ontology, and affect in the context of the history of German realism from Stifter to Kafka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>September 13, 6-7:30pm, Gilman 479<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erica Weitzman (PhD, Comparative Literature, NYU, 2012) is Associate Professor of German at Northwestern University. She is the author of Irony\u2019s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition&nbsp;(Northwestern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":8218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"program":[10445],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8803,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions\/8803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}