Ulrich Baer

Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University where he teaches literature, photography and some texts of continental philosophy. He has published books on poetry, photography, art, and culture, and written for the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the Los Angeles Book Review, and various galleries and museum catalogues, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art. His translations of Rainer Maria Rilke’s letters are available as audiobooks read by Ethan Hawke and Rosanne Cash. He hosts two podcasts on big ideas and great books, Think About It and The Proust Questionnaire, with co-host Caroline Weber, and has published editions of numerous classic books with Warbler Press, including Pride and Prejudice, The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Beyond Good and Evil, Heart of Darkness, Civilization and its Discontents, The Great Gatsby, Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, and others.

His single-author books include: Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma (MIT Press); Remnants of Song: Poetry and the Experiences of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan (Stanford UP); The Rilke Alphabet (Fordham UP); What Snowflakes Get Right: Speech, Equality and Truth in the University (Oxford UP).

He is editor and/or translator of: The Dark Interval: Rilke's Letters of Loss, Grief and Transformation (Random House/Bloomsbury); 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11 (NYU Press); Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters on Life (Random House); The Claims of Reading: A Shoshana Felman Reader (Fordham UP; with Emily Sun and Eyal Peretz); Hannah Arendt zwischen den Disziplinen (Wallstein; edited with Amir Eshel), and new editions numerous classic books of literature and philosophy.

He is the father of two children and lives in New York City, where he practices Shaolin kung fu and maintains a tiny plot in an urban garden.

Find out more at www.ulrichbaer.com.