Tim Mehigan (University of Otago)
"Robert Musil and the Question of Science"
Professor Mehigan studied German literature and philosophy at Sydney, Trier and Freiburg universities. He has published widely on literature and philosophy, notably on Kleist and Robert Musil. He has been foundation Chair of Languages at the University of Otago, was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Munich in 1994 and 1995, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Recent books include: 2011 (in press): edited with B. Empson, K.L. Reinhold: New Theory of the Human Capacity for Representation (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter); 2011 (in press):Heinrich von Kleist: Writing After Kant (Rochester: Camden House); 2011 (in press): editor, Companion to the Works of J.M. Coetzee (Rochester: Camden House); 2008: editor, Frameworks, Artworks, Place: The Space of Perception in the Modern World (Amsterdam: Rodopi); 2007: guest editorship of special issue of the journal Seminar with the theme "Image, Body, Text"; 2007: with B. Empson, editorship of issue of the interdisciplinary internet journal Double Dialogues on the theme of "Space".