Education
Ph.D. – University of California, Santa Barbara
M.A. – University of California, Santa Barbara
B.A. – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Teaching and Research Interests
Dustin Lovett is a scholar of German and Comparative Literature as well as Translation Studies whose work focuses on the construction and diffusion of discursive traditions in and between cultures. His current projects examine the place of early Faustian literature in the popular reception of the Scientific Revolution and the origins of conspiracy theory narratives. Dr. Lovett has enjoyed teaching courses on literature stretching from the ancient to the contemporary, on modern German philosophy, on identity and sexuality, and on the theory and practice of translation. In every course, he hopes to help students make unexpected connections that show how ideas resonate across time and culture.
Publications
2022 “‘Much Worse Than the Plague’: Magical Medicine and the Faust Tradition.” Journal of World Literature, special issue: World Literature in and for Pandemic Times, vol. 7, no.2, 2022, pp. 129–146.
2022 “The Ethics of Ambiguity in Emilia Galotti: Second-Hand Violence as Constraint to Individual Freedom.” Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch, special section: “Lessing and Intersectionality,” vol. 49, 2022, pp. 251–263.
2021 “If You Only Knew: Mephistopheles, Master Mirror, and the Experience of Evil.” In Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media, edited by Nira Zouidi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 15–35.
2019 “The Politics of Translation in the Press: Siegfried Kracauer and Cultural Mediation in the Periodicals of the Weimar Era.” Translation and Interpreting Studies, special issue: Translation and/in Periodical Publications, vol. 14, no. 2, 2019, pp. 263–282.
2019 “Polemical Magic: Early Faust Literature and Skepticism in the Reformation.” eHumanista, vol. 42, Monographic Issue I: European Baroque Skepticism, 2019, pp. 20–36.