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Daniel Medin

Professor

  • Department: Comparative Literature and English
  • Complementary Department(s): History and Politics

A former fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Berlin) and visiting researcher at the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Centre-Europ茅ennes (Sorbonne-Paris IV), Professor Medin joined the faculty of The American University of Paris in January 2010. He has taught German, English and comparative literature at Stanford University, Washington University in St. Louis and the Free University Berlin. His research is principally concerned with contemporary international fiction and the work and global reception of Franz Kafka. He also teaches classes on the history and literature of Central Europe; autobiographical writing; editorial practices (particularly for fiction in translation); and small prose forms. He is a director of the Center for Writers and Translators and one of the editors of its Cahiers Series. Past editorial associations include Astra Magazine, Music & Literature, The White Review, and Schreibheft. He has judged numerous literary prizes, among them the International Booker Prize, the HKW Internationaler Literaturpreis; the Prix Fragonard de litt茅rature 茅trang猫re; the European Union Prize for Literature; the Dublin Literary Award; and the Best Translated Book Award. 聽



Education/Degrees

  • PhD, Washington University in St. Louis
  • MA, Washington University in St. Louis
  • BA, University of Connecticut

Publications

  • For descriptions of all numbers published in The Cahiers Series click .
  • Museum Visits by Eric Chevillard. Ed. Daniel Medin and Daniel Levin Becker. Preface by Medin, translated by Levin Becker. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024.
  • 鈥淩esisting Stereotypes: Art, Activism and the Literature Industry鈥 (with Elleke Boehmer et al.). Authorship, Activism and Celebrity: Art and Action in a Global Literature. Ed. Sandra Mayer and Ruth Scobie. London: Bloomsbury, 2022/2023, pp. 82-93.
  • Can Xue dossier for Schreibheft containing short fiction and interviews translated into German by Eva Schestag with contributions by Ann Cotton, Raphaela Edelbauer, Jakob Kraner, and Sjon. Essen, Germany: August, 2022.
  • Mary Ruefle dossier for Schreibheft containing poems, short prose, lectures, erasures, and interviews translated into German by Esther Kinsky and Anja Utler with a contribution by Clemens J. Setz. Essen, Germany: August, 2021.
  • 鈥淒ie Quelle als Ziel聽: Joshua Cohen im Gespr盲ch mit Daniel Medin.鈥 From Joshua Cohen dossier for Schreibheft edited by Jan Wilm. Essen, Germany聽: August 2020.
  • "Promoting Translation through a Literary Center" (with Hanna Gressler). La t芒che po茅tique du traducteur. Ed. Catherine Coquio, C茅line Barral and In猫s Cazalas. Paris: Textuel, September 2020.聽
  • Volume 9 on and by Peter Bichsel and Sylvia Legris (edited volume), May 2019.
  • 鈥淩obert Walser鈥檚 Jewish Berlin.鈥 A Companion to Robert Walser. Ed. Samuel Frederick and Rebecca Schuman. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, June 2018.
  • Volume 8 on and by Eric Chevillard, Mark Turner, and Unsuk Chin (edited volume), November 2017.聽
  • Volume 7 of Music & Literature on and by Paul Griffiths, Lera Auerbach and Ann Quin (edited volume), May 2016.
  • Volume 6 of Music & Literature on and by Alejandra Pizarnik, Dubravka Ugre拧i膰, and Victoria Polev谩 (edited volume), April 2015.
  • 鈥淟e Kafka de J.-M. Coetzee.鈥 Les Cahiers de L'Herne: Franz Kafka. Ed. Wolfgang Asholt, Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, and Jean-Pierre Morel. Paris: Editions de l'Herne, October 2014.
  • Volume 5 of Music & Literature on and by Kaija Saariaho, Can Xue, and Stig S忙terbakken (edited volume), October 2014.聽
  • Volume 4 of Music & Literature on and by Clarice Lispector, Barry Guy, Maya Homburger, and Mary Ruefle (edited volume), April 2014.聽
  • Volume 3 of Music & Literature on and by Gerald Murnane, Vladim铆r God谩r, and Iva Bittov谩 (edited volume), October 2013.
  • 鈥淎ll the Bad Things.鈥 Review of The Jew Car by Franz F眉hmann, trans. Isabel Cole, and The Devil鈥檚 Workshop by J谩chym Topol, trans. Alex Zucker. Times Literary Supplement, 27 September 2013.
  • Volume 2 of Music & Literature on and by L谩szl贸 Krasznahorkai, B茅la Tarr, and Max Neumann (edited volume), April 2013.
  • 鈥淭he Woman Who Disapperared: Traces of Kafka in Das nackte Auge.鈥 脡tudes germaniques. Special issue on Yoko Tawada, January 2011.
  • Three Sons: Franz Kafka and the Fiction of J.M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W.G. Sebald. Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, ed. Rainer Rumold and Marjorie Perloff. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press (March 2010).
  • 鈥淟ike the Sunrise.鈥 Review of The Tanners by Robert Walser and Robert Walser: Sein Leben in Bildern und Texten by Bernhard Echte. Times Literary Supplement (March 31, 2010).
  • 鈥淒ecisive Days.鈥 Review of Kafka: Die Jahre der Entkenntnis by Rainer Stach. Times Literary Supplement (April 24, 2009).
  • 鈥淪imply Made Up: Franz Kafka in W.G. Sebald鈥檚 Dr. K.s Badereise nach Riva.鈥 Ed. Mark Rectanus. 脺ber Gegenwartsliteratur. Aisthesis Verlag, 2008.
  • 鈥淟iebliche L眉ge? Philip Roth鈥檚 鈥楲ooking at Kafka.鈥欌 Comparative Literature Studies Volume 44.1-2 (2007).

Conferences & Lectures

  • 鈥淭rends and Tendencies in Contemporary European Literature鈥 with Kholod Saghir, Mar铆a Sheila Cremaschi, and Lucie Campos, Bergen International Literature Festival, Bergen, February 2025.
  • 鈥淎 Conversation about Biotope鈥 with Orly Castel-Bloom, American University of Paris, January 2025.
  • 鈥溍渂er das Lesen im Schreiben鈥 with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, International Literature Festival BuchBasel, Basel, November 2024.
  • 鈥淎utobiographical Writing: On A Sky Inside Us鈥 with Jakuta Alikavazovic, American University of Paris, November 2024.
  • 鈥淎utobiographical Writing: On The Body Where I Was Born鈥 with Guadalupe Nettel, American University of Paris, October 2024.
  • 鈥淭he Ghosts of Paris鈥 with Lauren Elkin at American Library in Paris, collaboration with CWT, October 2024.
  • 鈥淕limpses into Kafka鈥檚 Workshop鈥 with Ross Benjamin, Carolin Duttlinger, and Ian Ellison, Oxford University, October 2024.
  • 鈥淯nderstanding Kafka: The Legacy Today鈥 with Sarah Bernstein and Yoko Tawada, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cheltenham, October 2024.
  • 鈥淯nderstanding Kafka: The Diaries and Letters鈥 with Ross Benjamin and Karolina Watroba, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cheltenham, October 2024.
  • 鈥淯nderstanding Kafka: Reading The Metamorphosis鈥 with Yoko Tawada and Karolina Watroba, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cheltenham, October 2024.
  • 鈥淚m hellen Tag: Kafkas Sprachen鈥 at Literarische Colloquium Berlin with L谩szl贸 F. F枚ld茅nyi, Sebastian Guggolz, and Yoko Tawada, Berlin, July 2024.
  • 鈥溾榃hat Do I Have in Common with Jews?鈥: Kafka and Belonging鈥 with Ross Benjamin at Transatlantic Kafka: American and European Perspectives on Kafka鈥檚 Work, Maisel Synagogue, Prague, June 2024.
  • 鈥淔ranz Kafka and Max Brod鈥 with Elif Batuman at Transatlantic Kafka: American and European Perspectives on Kafka鈥檚 Work, Maisel Synagogue, Prague, June 2024.
  • 鈥淎 Transnational Life鈥 with Jakuta Alikavazovic, Rumena Bu啪arovska and Elik Lettinga at The Witch鈥檚 Triumph: A Tribute to Dubravka Ugre拧i膰, collaboration between CWT, the Harriman Institute, and the Institute for Ideas & Imagination (Columbia University), Paris, June 2024.
  • 鈥100 Years of Kafka: The Life and Legacy鈥 with Naomi Alderman & Mircea C膬rt膬rescu at Dublin International Literature Festival, May 2024.
  • 鈥淲hat We Do in the Shadows鈥 with Mariana Enr铆quez at Dublin International Literature Festival, May 2024.
  • 鈥淕rappling with Social Conventions and Wartime Violence,鈥 Pajtim Statovci and Rumena Bu啪arovska, Bibliotopia Festival, Fondation Jan Michalski, Montricher, March 204.
  • 鈥淟ove in the Face of Disease: Sorrow and Comfort鈥 with Semezdin Mehmedinovi膰 and Hanne 脴rstavik, Bibliotopia Festival, Fondation Jan Michalski, Montricher, March 2024.
  • 鈥淔ound in Translation鈥 with Gunnhild 脴yehaug and Frode Grytten, Bergen International Literature Festival, Bergen, February 2024.
  • 鈥淩eading Sally Rooney鈥 with Carina Beddari and Eirik Vassenden, Bergen International Literature Festival, Bergen, February 2024.
  • 鈥淧ossible Lives鈥 with Maria Stepanova, American Library in Paris, collaboration with CWT as part of the Entre Nous series co-organized by Columbia Global Centers and the Institute for Ideas & Imagination, November 2023.
  • 鈥淎 Conversation about The Retrospective鈥 with Juan Gabriel V谩squez, American University of Paris, November 2023.
  • 鈥淭ranslating Fernanda Melchor鈥檚 Paradais into German鈥 with Angelica Ammer, American University of Paris, October 2023.
  • 鈥淧icking Evil Flowers鈥 with Gunnhild 脴yehaug, American Library in Paris in collaboration with CWT, NORLA and Shakespeare and Company, September 2023.
  • 鈥淐omment dire les traumas de l鈥橦istoire鈥 with Gabriela Adamesteanu, Marisa Cornejo and Han Kang, Le Livre sur les quais, Morges, September 2023.
  • 鈥淥n Fractured Identities, Connections and Communication鈥 with Natasha Brown and Han Kang, Le Livre sur les quais, Morges, September 2023.
  • 鈥淩encontre des ambassadeurs聽: D茅couvrir la litt茅rature roumaine鈥澛爓ith Gabriela Adamesteanu, Radu Bata and Ioanid Radu, Le Livre sur les quais, Morges, September 2023.
  • 鈥淪mall Odysseys鈥 with Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, International Literature Festival, Dublin, May 2023.
  • 鈥淟'infinie possibilit茅 de la fiction鈥澛爓ith聽Lauren Groff and Lucie Rico, Litt茅rature Live, Lyon, May 2023.
  • 鈥淐asting New Light on Colonial History: An Ethiopian Epic鈥 with Maaza Mengiste, Bibliotopia Festival, Fondation Jan Michalski, Montricher, April 2023.
  • 鈥淚nto the Family Archives, the Uncertainty and Value of Memory鈥 with Maria Stepanova and Monika Sznajderman, Bibliotopia Festival, Fondation Jan Michalski, Montricher, April 2023.
  • 鈥淭ranslating Geetanjali Shree鈥檚 Ret samadhi (Tomb of Sand) into French鈥 with Annie Montaut, American University of Paris, February 2023.
  • 鈥淎 Conversation about Chinatown鈥 with Th没an, American University of Paris, February 2023.
  • 鈥淭he African Country that Defeated Europe鈥 with Maaza Mengiste, Bergen International Literature Festival, Bergen, February 2023.
  • 鈥淣ew Norwegian Voices鈥 with Sandra Lilleb酶, Monica Isakstuen and Eivind Riise Hauge, Bergen International Literature Festival, Bergen, February 2023.