Kurt Beals | War in Translation: 'All Quiet on the Western Front'

Kurt Beals

Visiting Associate Professor of German & Humanities Fellow in Literary Translation

University of Richmond

Kurt Beals is Visiting Associate Professor of German and Humanities Fellow in Literary Translation at the University of Richmond. He was previously Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on experimental movements in 20th-century and contemporary German literature, media theory, and translation. He is the author of Wireless Dada: Telegraphic Poetics in the Avant-Garde (Northwestern UP, 2020) and articles about authors including Max Bense, Paul Celan, Ferdinand Kriwet, and Regina Ullmann. He has translated a wide range of works from German into English. His translation of Jenny Erpenbeck’s speech and essay collection Not a Novel was included in World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2020. Most recently, he has translated Erpenbeck’s collection of short essays Things That Disappear and re-translated two classic novels, Hermann Hesse’s The Steppenwolf and Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front.