Glenn Kurtz
Part-time Faculty
glennkurtz@gmail.com
Office Hours
Monday 3:30-4:30
Wednesday 3:30-4:30
B.A. English, Tufts University, 1985
A.M. German Studies, Stanford University, 1989
Ph.D. German Studies & Comparative Literature, Stanford University, 1994
Glenn Kurtz, a 2016 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, is the author of Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014), which was named a Best Book of 2014 by The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and National Public Radio. His first book, Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music (Knopf, 2007), also received enthusiastic reviews from The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of Tufts University, the New England Conservatory of Music, and holds a PhD from Stanford University in German studies and comparative literature. He has taught at Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and California College of the Arts.
Books
2015
Glenn Kurtz's Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Recent News
AWARDS AND HONORS
For the 2019-2020 academic year, Glenn Kurtz has been named a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, in Orange, California.
Courses
2020 Spring
Adventures in Skepticism: From Descartes to Deconstruction
2019 Spring
Adventures in Skepticism: From Descartes to Deconstruction
2018 Fall
First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar: American Paranoia: Community and the Fear of "Others"
2018 Spring
First-Year Research Seminar: Tales of the Jazz Age: New York City in the 1920s
2017 Fall
First-Year Writing Seminar: American Paranoia: Community and the Fear of "Others"
