Tobias Boes

Tobias Boes is Associate Professor of German at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also affiliated with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. He is the author of Thomas Mann’s War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters, which is featured in his Rorotoko Interview, and of Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman, which was published by Cornell University Press in 2013. His research focuses on the global reception of German culture, and on the interrelationship between literature and politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.