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Peter Blickle

Professor and Advisor in German

peter.blickle@wmich.edu
414 Sprau Tower
Phone: (269) 387-3006

 

Peter Blickle received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1995. He is the author of two scholarly books, one in English, Heimat: A Critical Theory of the German Idea of Homeland (Camden House 2002), and one in German, Maria Beig und die Kunst der scheinbaren Kunstlosigkeit (Maria Beig and the Art of Appearing Primitive, Edition Isele 1997). His book on Heimat (home, homeland) has quickly established itself as one of the standard works on this German concept. He is also the author of a novel, Blaulicht im Nebel (Ambulance in Fog, Edition Isele 2002), and he translated Rosina Lippi’s novel Homestead into German (Im Schatten der Drei Schwestern, Rowohlt/Wunderlich 2002). Together with Jaimy Gordon, he translated Maria Beig’s novel Lost Weddings into English (Persea Books 1990). For his fiction in German, he received the Irseer Pegasus Award (2004).