Professional Biography

Therese Augst joined the program at Lewis & Clark after teaching in the German department at Princeton University, where she taught courses in language, literature, and culture. She has also held visiting posts at Stanford and the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her PhD in German Studies from UCSB in 1998. Over the years she has taught courses at all levels and on a wide variety of topics, including contemporary literature and film; the theory and practice of translation; tragedy and philosophy; and representations of the link between madness and artistry. She has presented and published work on translations of Greek tragedy by the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, the secret correspondence between Hölderlin and his married lover, German-Jewish exiles in Hollywood, and dream writing at the turn of the twentieth century. Her current research is focused on representations of interiority by women writers and artists around 1900, when traditional forms in which women wrote and created art – diaries, letters, dream journals, (self-)portraits – become informed by the architecture of the modern city and the new language of psychoanalysis.

Academic Credentials

Ph.D. 1997, M.A. 1992 University of California at Santa Barbara
B.A. 1989 University of California at Davis