Martyn's major interests are 18th- and early 19th-century German literature and
philosophy, literary and cultural theory, and constructions of linguistic and cultural
identity in Germany from the late 18th century to the present. He has published numerous
articles on German and French literature and philosophy of the romantic period and on
literary theory. At Macalester, Martyn teaches courses in German language, German
literature and culture from the 18th century to the present, and in philosophy and
critical theory. 

EDUCATION: B.A., Yale University M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University 

Martyn has been teaching at Macalester since 2003.

Articles

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Figures of the Mean: Freedom, Progress, and the Law of Statistical Averages in Kleist’s “Allerneuester Erziehungsplan”, Germanic Review (2010)
 

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Wertvoll sind die Fehllektüren: Zur Performativität der Edition [What’s worthwhile are the misreadings: On the performativity of the critical edition], Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie (2004)
 

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Borrowed Fatherland: Nationalism and Language Purism in Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation, Germanic Review (1997)
 

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Sade's Ethical Economies, Romanic Review, vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 45-63, Winter 1995 (1995)
 

Books

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Sublime Failures: The Ethics of Kant and Sade (2003)
 

Contributions to Books

Jerusalem und die jüdische Säkularisierung: Mendelssohn contra Hegel.” [Jerusalem and the Jewish Secular: Mendelssohn vs. Hegel.], Moses Mendelssohn; Spec. ed. of TEXT + KRITIK: Zeitschrift für Literatur (2011)
 

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Kants Kritik als ethisches Narrativ, Ethik und Narration (2009)
 

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Gewalt der Rede, Gewalt des Verstehens: Schleiermacher, Meier, Kleist, Krisen des Verstehens um 1800 (2004)
 

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Die Autorität des Unlesbaren: Zu Stellenwert des Kanons in der Philologie Paul de Mans, Ästhetik und Rhetorik: Lektüren zu Paul de Man (1993)
 

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Dekonstruktion, Literaturwissenschaft: Ein Grundkurs (1992)