Professor of German Studies
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
Fax: 562 985-4259
Jeffrey.High@csulb.edu | Office: AS-321
Research Interests
Professor High’s teaching and research focus on the "Age of Schiller" as well as literary, philosophical, and theoretical texts from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. His seminars – "Friedrich Schiller," “The 'German' Novella from Boccaccio to Stephen King,” “Heinrich von Kleist,” and “Drama of the Late Enlightenment” - teach interdisciplinary approaches to the intersections of literature, philosophy, critical theory, and politics in German, European, and US culture. Professor High has received numerous awards for teaching, service, and scholarship, and has taught as a Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico German Summer School since 2001.
Education
2001 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ph.D., Modern German Literature
1990 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, M.A., Modern German Literature
1988 University of Massachusetts, Boston, B.A., German
Select Publications
Who is this Schiller (now)? Ed. Jeffrey L. High, Nicholas Martin, and Norbert Oellers. Rochester: Camden House, 2011.
Schiller's Literary Prose Works. New Translations and Critical Essays. Rochester: Camden House, 2008.
Schillers Rebellionskonzept und die Französische Revolution. New York: Edward Mellen Press, 2004.
"'Judex!' Blasphemy, and Posthumous Conversion: Schiller and (no) Religion," Yearbook of the Goethe Society of North America, Rochester: Camden House, 2012.
"Schillers Unabhängigkeitserklärungen: die niederländische Plakkaat van Verlatinge, der 'amerikanische Krieg' und die unzeitgemäße Rhetorik des Marquis Posa," Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010: 80-108.
Select Awards and Grants
2008-10 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award
2006 CSULB CLA Faculty Recognition Award