Zilcosky, John 1964-

PERSONAL:

Born December 19, 1964, in Kane, PA; son of David Theodore (a computer programmer) and Kathryn Ann (a nurse) Zilcosky. Education: Harvard University, A.B. (magna cum laude), 1987; Stanford University, A.M. (German studies), 1989; attended University of Tubingen, 1989-90; Temple University, M.A. (English and creative writing), 1992; attended Free University of Berlin, 1996-97; University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1998.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Office—Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. E-mail—zilcosky@chass.utoronto.ca.

CAREER:

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, instructor in German and comparative literature, 1992-96; Williams College, Williamstown, MA, assistant professor of German studies, 1998-99; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, assistant professor, 1999-2004, associate professor of German and comparative literature, 2004—. Guest lecturer at other institutions, including Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Duke University, University of Missouri at Columbia, Humboldt University, Davidson College, Williams College, and Universitá Ca' Foscari di Venezia; conference presenter and organizer.

MEMBER:

International Comparative Literature Association, Modern Language Association of America, American Comparative Literature Association, German Studies Association, Kafka Society of America, Canadian Association of University Teachers of German.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Ezra Pound Translation Prize, University of Pennsylvania, 1993; scholar, Institut d'Études Françaises, Avignon, France, 1993; grants from German Academic Exchange Service, 1995, 1999; Fulbright scholar in Berlin, Germany, 1996-97, junior research grant for Germany, 2003; grants from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2000-02, 2003-06; Humboldt fellow in Germany, 2004-05; Scaglione Book Prize for Germanic Languages and Literature, Modern Language Association of America, 2004, for Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing.

WRITINGS:

Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing, Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY), 2003.

Contributor to books, including A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka, edited by James Rolleston, Camden House (Rochester, NY), 2002; W.G. Sebald: A Critical Companion, edited by Jonathan Long and Anne Whitehead, Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2004; and Cosmopolitanism and Colonialism, edited by John K. Noyes, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2006. Contributor of articles, fiction, and translations to periodicals, including Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, New Republic,Alphabet City, German Life and Letters, Journal of the Kafka Society of America, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Conjunctions, Quarterly, and Journal of Modern Literature.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

German Studies Review, May, 2004, Sheila Johnson, review of Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing.

Journal of European Studies, March-June, 2004, Ritchie Robertson, review of Kafka's Travels, p. 176.

Modernism/Modernity, September, 2004, Sabine Wilke, review of Kafka's Travels, p. 612.

Times Literary Supplement, October 10, 2003, Jeremy Adler, review of Kafka's Travels.

University of Toronto Quarterly, winter 2004-2005, Russell Kilbourn, review of Kafka's Travels, p. 557.