PETER ZUSI

Dr Peter ZUSI studied literature at Yale (BA) and comparative literature and social thought at the University of Chicago (MA, PhD), where his original interest in German literature rapidly expanded to include Czech literature in particular and central European literature in general. His doctoral dissertation examined intellectual and ideological functions of the notion of "historicism" in Czech and German avant-gardes in the interwar period. After defending his dissertation he taught for several years in the Slavic department at Harvard. In autumn 2008, he recived the NEH fellowship to work on a book about Franz Kafka and Czech modernism. Peter Zusi currently teaches at University College London courses on Czech literature from the eighteenth century to the present, on Central European modernism and contributes to team-taught courses on central and east European literature and cinema.