Dr Ben Morgan
Benjamin Morgan, B.A., D.Phil.
University Lecturer (CUF) in German, Fellow of Worcester College
Address: Worcester College, Oxford, OX1 2HB
Homepage: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc1306/
Email: ben.morgan@worc.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 288340
Research
Ben Morgan's main research interests are in German intellectual history (medieval mysticism, Nietzsche, early psychoanalysis, the Frankfurt School) and German film (Fritz Lang, Leni Riefenstahl). He has also worked on contemporary women's writing (Jelinek). His is currently completing a project which explores how texts from the fourteenth century milieu of Meister Eckhart can help a re-thinking of modern ideas of personal identity. His next project, 'Heidegger at the Movies,' will draw on popular film from 1930 to 1970 to re-evaluate the process of coming to terms with the past in West Germany after 1945.
Teaching
German language and literature. Special interests in German intellectual history; German film; psychoanalysis (Freud, Jung and beyond).
Publications
'Music in Nazi Film: How different is 'Triumph of the Will'', Studies in European Cinema, 3 (2006), 37-53
'Eckhart and the Incarnation: Some Practical Details', Eckhart Review, 13 (2004), 37-50
'Fear and Self Control in The Antichrist: Nietzsche's Prussian Past', in: Nietzsche and the German Tradition, ed. Nicholas Martin (Bern: Peter Lang, 2003), 139-53
'Jelinek, "Krankheit oder moderne Frauen"', in: Landmarks in German drama (Bern: Lang, 2002), 225-242
'The project of the Frankfurt School', Telos, Nr. 119 (2001), 75-98
'"Metropolis" - The archetypal version: sentimentality and self-control in the reception of the film', in: Fritz lang's 'Metropolis': Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear (Camden House, 2000), 288-309
'Developing the modern concept of the self: the trial of Meister Eckhart', Telos, Nr. 116 (1999), 56-80