Grand Danube Passage 2024

Klaus J. Milich is a scholar in American literary and cultural studies with a focus on modernism and postmodernism in the European-US-American context, senior lecturer with the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program, and former director of the Montgomery Fellows Program at Dartmouth College. His current interests coalesce around the cultural repercussions of genetics, genealogy, and race. Before coming to Dartmouth, Klaus Milich was assistant professor of American Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he also received his Ph.D. Prior to his academic career, he worked at German Public Radio (ARD) and wrote essays, features, and book reviews for national and international newspapers, as well as literary and cultural journals. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Minnesota; the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California at Irvine; and the David Bruce Center for American Studies at Keele University, Great Britain. He is the author of several books, including Early Post-modernity: History of a European-American Cultural Conflict, Multiculturalism in Transit (with Jeffrey M. Peck), and American Studies in Germany: European Contexts and Intercultural Relations (with Günter H. Lenz).