Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman is Core Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Languages, teaching Contemporary Civilization to Columbia's undergraduates. He is a scholar of German letters from the late 18th century to the present. He is working on a book on the transnational aesthetics of reaction after 1945. His broad areas of interest include German literature and film, the history of theory, political thought, and the philosophy of art.

Publications

Co-Editor with Cosima Mattner, Colloquia Germanica 58:1, Spring 2025

“Arendt’s Criticism of Life,” Colloquia Germanica 58:1, Spring 2025

“German Studies after German Studies,” in German Studies Review 49.3, October 2026

“E pluribus unum. Jamesons Kompositionsstil,” in Theoriestile. Schreibweisen, Denkfiguren, Zirkulationsformen (forthcoming 2026) 

“The Roadbed: Adorno, Hortense Spillers, and the Multidirectional Identity of Critical Theory” (forthcoming in collected volume, 2027)