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Ekbert Faas
Ekbert Faas studied in Munich, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, Rome, and London. A full professor of English Literature after completing two Ph.Ds (Dr. phil. and Dr. habil.) in Germany, ...view moreEkbert Faas studied in Munich, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, Rome, and London. A full professor of English Literature after completing two Ph.Ds (Dr. phil. and Dr. habil.) in Germany, he left Europe to restart his career under a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies in New York. A biographer, translator, novelist, poet, critic, and interdisciplinary scholar, he has had a lifelong interest in art theory, and especially in evolving a new aesthetics based on the cognitive and evolutionary sciences. Earlier results of these endeavours, Shakespeare’s Poetics (Cambridge), The Genealogy of Aesthetics (Cambridge) and The Survival of Beauty and Art (Aguilar Press) were first published in 1986, 2002 and 2013. Since his highly acclaimed Woyzeck’s Head of 1991, he has also continued his work as a novelist. God's Will Be Death and Mengele's Friend? were both published in 2012. The Terrorist, involving early Communist agitators/theoreticians Karl Marx, Bakunin, and Nechaev, as well as another novel about Columbus and Cortez are near completion. So is a further historical novel about Dante’s wife Gemma and Boccaccio. Faas’ major scholarly endeavour over recent years, Under Dante’s Shadow: Boccaccio, Chaucer, and the Alternative Tradition will appear in 2022.view less