About

Jonathan Blake Fine studied Comparative Literature at New York University and received a Ph.D. in German and Critical Theory from the University of California, Irvine. He subsequently held a Volkswagen Stiftung/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Freie Universität Berlin and has taught at Gettysburg College, Pacific Lutheran University, and Brown University. His current book project, entitled Nefarious Heathens: Germany’s Radical Public Enlightenment, examines the use of public theological debates to educate Germans during the late eighteenth century. A complementary digital humanities project focusing on Lessing’s Fragmentenstreit can be accessed here. Dr. Fine’s research interests include German and European intellectual history, digital humanities, and critical theory.