Dr Tom Kuhn

Tom Kuhn, M.A., D.Phil.
Faculty Lecturer in German, Fellow of St Hugh's College
Address:  St Hugh's College, Oxford, OX2 6LE
Email:   tom.kuhn@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
Tel:   01865 274980
Fax:   01865 274912

Research

Tom Kuhn's main research interests are in political literature in the 20th century. He has worked particularly on Bertolt Brecht, and is the series editor of the main English-language edition of Brecht's works. In addition, he has written on exile and anti-fascist literature, and on more recent drama.

Teaching

German language and literature, especially 20th-century literature. Special interests: 20th-century drama and theatre, Brecht, Kafka, Heine, music and literature, history and literature.

Selected Publications | View all publications

'"Was besagt eine Fotografie?" Early Brechtian Perspectives on Photography', The Brecht Yearbook, 31 (2006), 261-283

Editor, with Steve Giles, Brecht, Brecht on Art and Politics, Methuen Brecht edition (London: Methuen, 2003)

Editor, with Karen Leeder, Empedocles' Shoe: Re-reading the Poems of Bertolt Brecht (London: Methuen, 2002)

'Brecht als Lyriker', in: Brecht-Handbuch: Gedichte, ed. Jan Knopf (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002), 1-21

'Visit to a banished poet: Brecht's Svendborg Poems and the voices of exile', in: Brecht’s Poetry of Political Exile, ed. Ronald Speirs (Cambridge: CUP, 2000), 47-65

'Ovid and Brecht: topoi of poetic banishment', The Brecht Yearbook, 24 (1999), 162-175

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