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The Department of German, the Graduate School, the Department of Art History, and the Comparative Literary Studies Program present

Carol Jacobs, Yale University

"Angelika Kauffmann and the Art of Depiction”

At Yale University, Carol Jacobs is a Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of German. She has taught at several universities in the mid-atlantic region, including SUNY Buffalo, Johns Hopkins and NYU. She has published six books: The Dissimulating Harmony, Uncontainable Romanticism, Telling Time, In the Language of Walter Benjamin, Skirting the Ethical and Sebald's Vision. Her most notable awards are being the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the ALCS, and Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, University of Cologne. Adapted from (http://complit.yale.edu/people/carol-jacobs).