Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Bard College
Director of Bard Programs at ECLA of Bard

Florian Becker read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford University, before earning a Ph.D. in German literature at Princeton University. Awards for his doctoral research on twentieth-century German theater and philosophy include a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities (2002–03). He joined the Division of Languages and Literature at Bard College in Annandale in 2005 and has been teaching at ECLA of Bard since 2012. Recent articles appeared in Modern Language Journal, Modern Drama, the International Brecht Yearbook, and the Routledge Handbook of Human Rights. He has completed a monograph on Bertolt Brecht, Peter Weiss, and Heiner Müller, Theater and Praxis: Realism as Critique in Twentieth-Century German Drama and has edited, with Paola S. Hernández and Brenda Werth, a volume of essays entitled Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater: Global Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). He is currently editing, with Janine Ludwig, an English-language companion to the works of Heiner Müller.

Courses offered at ECLA of Bard 2012-13

“Berlin: Experiment in Modernity I,”
“Berlin: Experiment in Modernity II.”

Courses offered at Bard College, Annandale

Literature 3035 “The Frankfurt School,”
Literature 2022 “The Making of Modern Theatre,”
Literature 288 “Modern Drama in Translation: Brecht in the Global South,”
Literature 204C “Comparative Literature III: Romanticism to Modernism,”
Philosophy 2014(3) “The Philosophy of Human Rights” (at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa),
German 456 “Neo-Avantgarde and Student Movement in 1960s Germany,”
German 425 “Culture and Society in Weimar Germany,”
German 410 “Revolution in German Literature,”
German 317 “German Poetry: Goethe to Celan,”
German 306 “German Drama and the Story of Capitalism,”
German 305 “Writing Freedom: German Literature Since 1700,”
German 202 “Intermediate German II,”
German 201 “Intermediate German I,”
German 102 “Beginning German II,”
German 101 “Beginning German I,”
First-Year Seminar II “Revolution and the Limits of Reason.”