Assistant Professor of German and Foreign Languages for Culture Studies and Special Purposes (FLCSSP).

Perry Myers grew up in Texas and attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas. After completing his education with a Master of Business Administration in May, 1981, he spent the following years as an investment banker in Frankfurt, Germany. In September 1994 he re-entered the academic world at the University of Texas and completed his PhD in Germanic Studies in August 2002. He is at present working on a book about how quasi-religious groups at the beginning of the twentieth century envisioned the Orient, producing a very specific German "oriental" discourse.

Publications:

Book:
The Double Edged Sword: The Cult of Bildung, Its Downfall and Reconstitution in Fin-de-Siècle Germany (Rudolf Steiner and Max Weber) (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2004)

Articles:

“Colonial Consciousness: Rudolf Steiner’s Orientalism and German Cultural Identity”
(forthcoming: Journal of European Studies)

"Monistic Visions and Colonial Consciousness: Ernst Haeckel’s Indische Reisebriefe" (forthcoming:  Seminar)

“Max Weber: Education as Academic and Political Calling” German Studies Review 27.2 (2004): 269-88.
“Ludwig Tieck’s gestiefelter Kater: Striking the Balance Between the Idealistic and the Fantastic” Monatshefte 96.1 (Spring 2004): 62-77.
“Sickness and Death: The Transformation of Geist in Thomas Mann’s Fiorenza,” Seminar 37.3 (September 2001): 209-26.
 

Book Reviews
Review of Eva Zimmermann. “Der Dichter sucht Verständnis und Erkanntwerden.” Neue Arbeiten zu Hermann Hesse und seinem Roman Das Glasperlenspiel, ed. Eva Zimmermann. (forthcoming in German Studies Review)

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