Larson Powell 

Assistant Professor of German 

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D, Columbia University; B.A., Harvard College.  

Prof. Powell taught at Texas A&M University, U Mass Amherst and Fordham University before coming to UMKC.  He specializes in 20^th century literature and film (especially DEFA and film music).   His first book on modern German poetry (The Technological Unconscious) will be published by Camden House in 2008; a second book on post-1945 media art (electronic music, radio plays, film soundtracks) is in preparation.  He has published and lectured in German, French and English, on German film and literature as well as on musicology, psychoanalysis, systems theory and philosophical aesthetics.  Among his recent publications are “Allegories of Management. Norbert Schulze’s Soundtrack for Das Mädchen Rosemarie,” in Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. ed. Sabine Hake and John Davidson (Berghahn 2007), 180-193, and “The War with Other Media: Ingeborg Bachmann’s Der gute Gott von Manhattan.” Colloquia Germanica. 38:3 (2005): 265-283.  Click here for more on Dr. Powell's recent accomplishments.