Ulrich Baer
New York City
Ulrich Baer is a writer, translator, and editor who has published widely on photography, poetry, and literature. He has received numerous grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Getty Research Fellowship, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.
Uli received his B.A. from Harvard in 1991, and his Ph.D. from Yale in Comparative Literature in 1995. He is Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Vice Provost for Arts, Humanities and Multicultural Affairs at New York University.
Among his books are Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan; Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma; the anthology 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11; Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters on Life (translator and editor); and Beggar's Chicken: Stories from Shanghai. He has also edited (with Emily Sun and Eyal Peretz), The Shoshana Felman Reader, five editions of Rilke's letters in German, and an essay collection on testimony and witnessing.
In 2014 the English translation of Baer's The Rilke Alphabet will appear in English (German publication 2010).