Thomas Hollweck
Associate Professor of German
German Undergraduate Advisor

Thomas Hollweck is Associate Professor of German. He received his Ph.D. in literature and political philosophy from Emory University. He teaches German Cultural Studies, 20th century German Literature, as well as German and Austrian Intellectual History and is the departmental honors representative. He is the author of a book on Thomas Mann (Munich: List,1975) and the editor of several volumes of the 34 volume edition of the collected Works of Eric Voegelin (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990 ff.), most recently the volume Selected Correspondence - 1950 to 1984 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. He edited the German translation of Voegelin's The Ecumenic Age under the title Die Legitimitaet der Antike (Munich: Fink Verlag, 2005). He is currently at work on a book on myth, memory, and history. Among his recent articles are "Gedanken zu einem Briefwechsel zwischen Hermann Broch und Eric Voegelin in der Menschenrechtsfrage" (2005) and a forthcoming article "Violence: A Matter of religion?" (2006).

In fall 2006 Hollweck began teaching a new course for the core curriculum (Historical Context), GRMN 2301 "Inside Nazi Germany."