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Denis Sweet teaches intermediate German language and composition and conversation, as well as a wide range of upper-level courses investigating modern German thought – from the 18th-century Enlightenment and Romanticism to Nietzsche, East German socialism, and contemporary film. Prof. Sweet also teaches a First-Year Seminar, Hell’s Fire, as well as the interdisciplinary Short Term Unit, Wake Up! An Experiential Journey to Self-Awareness, Nature, and Social Engagement http://www.bates.edu/~dsweet/wakeup/
Prof. Sweet studied German Thought at Stanford University and the Freie Universität Berlin. He has lived, off and on, for about a decade in Berlin where he has pursued various research projects connected with the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). As a Fulbright fellow, for example, he interviewed leaders of the East German underground gay movement. Prof. Sweet has written on the 18th century, East German gay literature, and East German reception of Nietzsche, and he translated a seminal work by one of Germany’s foremost literary critics, Hans Mayer’s Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters (MIT Press). Prof. Sweet’s current research interests examine various scenarios of the end of the world, and he plans to introduce a new course by that title for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Professor Sweet's complete curriculum vitae
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