Andreas Huyssen

(Germany, 1942). Professor of German Philology and Comparative Literature at Columbia University where he has been teaching since 1986. As a teacher and researcher, he has focused his concerns on German literature and culture from the 17^th to 20^th centuries, along with critical analysis of the contemporary world, dealing with such themes as postmodernity and cultural memory in international political conflicts. In the latter area, he has become a key source in studies of the processes of constructing collective memory, with work focused in particular on the cases of Germany and Argentina. International recognition of his work has led to his participating in numerous conferences and his books have been translated into several languages. Notable among his recent publications are After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (Theories of Representation and Difference), (Indiana University Press, 1986); Twilight Memories:  Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (Routledge, 1995), Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Stanford University Press, 2003); and his latest book, which has been published in Spanish with the title Modernismo después de la posmodernidad (Modernism after Postmodernity – Gedisa, 2010).