Professor, Germanic Languages and Literature
hell@umich.eduOffice Information:
3206 MLB; 812 E. Washington St.; Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275
phone: 734.763.5019
CREES Faculty Associates; Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; WCEE Faculty
Education/Degree:
PhD, German Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989
Highlighted Work and Publications
Demolition Artists: Icono-Graphy, Tanks, and Scenarios of (Post-) Communist Subjectivity in Works by Neo Rauch, Heiner Müller, Durs Grünbein, and Uwe Tellkamp
Julia Hell
Name of Periodical: The Germanic Review
Volume Number: 89
Issue Number: 2
Year of Publication: 2014
Page Numbers: 131-170
doi Number: 10.1080/00168890.2014.917043
Ruinopolis: Post-Imperial Theory and Learning from Las Vegas
Julia Hell, with George Steinmetz (German Studies and Sociology)
Abstract
This essay foregrounds a dimension of Las Vegas that other authors only touch on in passing: its connections to empire. The authors propose a post-imperial analysis of the city based on a reconstruction of its history and a reading of the traces of this history in the city's architecture and its self-presentation in American popular culture. This analysis of Las Vegas as ruinopolis draws attention to the ruin sites of the city and its hinterland, reading them through the lens of empire. We work out the imperial...
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Modernity and the Holocaust, or, Listening to Eurydice
Julia Hell
See Bauman’s response in Theory Culture and Society Blog
See MoreThe Twin Towers of Anselm Kiefer and the Trope of Imperial Decline
Julia Hell
Name of Periodical: The Germanic Review
Volume Number: 84
Issue Number: 1
Year of Publication: 2009
doi Number: 10.3200/GERR.84.1.84-93
Dissolution/Revolution: Uwe Tellkamp’s Postwall Novel Der Turm and the Peculiar Configuration of the Public Sphere in the Late GDR
Julia Hell
For Social Science Research Council, forum on the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall (2009).
Name of Periodical: Social Science Research Council
Year of Publication: 2009
Katechon: Carl Schmitt's Imperial Theology and the Ruins of the Future
Julia Hell
Name of Periodical: The Germanic Review
Volume Number: 84
Issue Number: 4
Year of Publication: 2009
Page Numbers: 283-356
The Visual Archive of Colonialism: Germany and Namibia
Julia Hell, with George Steinmetz
Review of article in The Times Literary Supplement, November 3, 2006.
Name of Periodical: Public Culture
Volume Number: 18
Issue Number: 1
Year of Publication: 2006
Page Numbers: 147-184
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See MoreRemnants of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt, Heiner Mueller, Slavoj Zizek and the Re-Invention of Politics
Julia Hell
Name of Periodical: Telos
Volume Number: 136
Year of Publication: 2006
Page Numbers: 76-103
The Angel's Enigmatic Eyes, or The Gothic Beauty of Catastrophic History in W.G. Sebald's "Air War and Literature"
Julia Hell
Name of Periodical: Criticism
Volume Number: 46
Issue Number: 3
Year of Publication: 2004
Page Numbers: 361-92
Eyes Wide Shut, or German Post-Holocaust Authorship
Julia Hell
Name of Periodical: New German Critique
Year of Publication: 2003
Page Numbers: 9-36
Ruinopolis: A Post-Imperial Reading of Las Vegas
Julia Hell, George Steinmetz
This essay foregrounds a dimension of Las Vegas that other authors only touch on in passing: its connections to empire. The authors propose a post-imperial analysis of the city based on a reconstruction of its history and a reading of the traces of this history in the city's architecture and its self-presentation in American popular culture. This analysis of Las Vegas as ruinopolis draws attention to the ruin sites of the city and its hinterland, reading them through the lens of empire. We work out the imperial territoriality of Las Vegas, including the derelict space of the Las Vegas...
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Julia Hell
Publisher: Duke University Press
Month of Publication: March
Year of Publication: 2010
# of Pages: 528
ISBN: 978-0822344742
