Mark W. Roche
The Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Professor of German Language and Literature
Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures
Concurrent Professor of Philosophy
Degrees
B.A., Williams College; M.A., Universität Tübingen; Ph.D., Princeton University.
Research Profile
Roche’s publications are on German literature and on philosophy, film, and higher education. His most recent book is Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004). Other books have addressed the idea of a Catholic university (2003), the value of art (2002), Hegel’s theory of tragedy and comedy (1998), the 20th-century German poet Gottfried Benn (1991), and the concept of dynamic stillness in late 18th- and early 19th-century German literature (1987). Roche’s teaching has focused on literature and philosophy, German literature from the 18th century to the present, German cultural and intellectual history, German film, and German language as well as integrative courses that introduce students to the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. In 2006, Roche received a Kaneb Teaching Award.
Contact Information
349
Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-5875
mroche@nd.edu
http://mroche.nd.edu/
