COOK, Roger F. 1948-

PERSONAL:

Born September 14, 1948, in Little Rock, AR; son of James D. and Hazel (Copeland) Cook; married, October, 2002; wife's name Nada; children: Stephen Dawson, Darren Anthony. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Washington and Lee University, B.A., 1970; University of Freiburg, M.A., 1978; University of California—Berkeley, Ph.D., 1986. Hobbies and other interests: Tennis, backpacking.

ADDRESSES:

Home—206 Spring Valley Rd., Columbia, MO 65203. Office—Department of German and Russian Studies, 451 GCB, University of Missouri—Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211. E-mail—cookrf@missouri.edu.

CAREER:

University of Missouri—Columbia, Columbia, MO, professor of German and chair of Department of German and Russian Studies, 1986—.

MEMBER:

North American Heine Society (president), Modern Language Association of America, German Studies Association, American Association of Teachers of German.

WRITINGS:

The Demise of the Author: Autonomy and the German Writer, 1770-1848, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 1993.

The Cinema of Wim Wenders: Image, Narrative, and the Postmodern Condition, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1996.

By the Rivers of Babylon: Heinrich Heine's Late Songs and Reflections, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1998.

(Editor) A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine, Camden House, 2002.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Research on German-Jewish conceptions of history in the nineteenth century.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Choice, April, 1999, E. L. Vines, review of By the Rivers of Babylon: Heinrich Heine's Late Songs and Reflections, p. 1461.

Journal of English and Germanic Philology, January, 2000, Jeffrey L. Sammons, review of By the Rivers of Babylon, p. 106.

Modern Language Review, April, 2001, Jefferson S. Chase, review of By the Rivers of Babylon, p. 571.