David Roberts (academic)

Awards

• Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 1969, 1981, 1997
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities 1986-
• Centennial Medal for Service to German Studies in Australia 2001

  Editorial activities

• Co-editor Thesis Eleven. Critical Theory and Historical Sociology 1983-
• International Advisory Board, Germanistik 1987-
• International Editorial Board, The German Quarterly 1988-1994
• Co-editor, “Monash European Studies”, Berg Publishers, Oxford/New York/Hamburg, 1988–1993
• International Advisory Board, “Studies in Contemporary German Literature”, Stauffenburg, Tübingen, 1997–2002
• Advisory Board, Limbus. Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies

  Publications

• Artistic Consciousness and Political Conscience: The Novels of Heinrich Mann 1900-1938. Bern, Lang, 1971
• Kopf und Welt: Elias Canettis Roman “Die Blendung”. München, Hanser Verlag, 1975
• The Indirections of Desire. Hamlet in Goethes Wilhelm Meister. Heidelberg, Carl Winter Verlag, 1980 . Reissued as paperback 2005
• * See review article: Max Pensky, “Choosing Your Mask”, New German Critique 63, 161-180
• Dialectic of Romanticism. A Critique of Modernism. With Peter Murphy, London: Continuum, 2004
• 'Canetti’s Counter-Image of Society. Crowds, Power, Transformation. With Johann P. Arnason, 'Rochester, N.Y., Camden House, 2004.
• The Total Work of Art in European Modernism.'' Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011 See review article: Roger Fornoff, ‘At the Interface of Art, Religion, Politics‘, Thesis Eleven 123, 123-128.