Professor Burgard, who joined the Harvard Faculty 35 years ago, studied at The Johns Hopkins University (B.A.) and at the Universities of Cologne, Bonn, and Virginia (M.A., Ph.D.). He writes on poetry, drama, narrative, and the essay, on painting, sculpture, and architecture, and on intellectual history, ranging from the 16th to the 20th century. His publications include studies of Luther, Caravaggio, Bernini, Opitz, Fleming, Gryphius, Hoffmannswaldau, Grimmelshausen, Asam, Goethe, Herder, Lessing, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Mann, Kafka, Adorno, Miller, and Warhol.

Burgard teaches courses on Baroque Art and Literature, the Age of Goethe, the Ethics of Atheism, Nietzsche, Freud, Thomas Mann, Fin-de-siècle Literature and Art, and a series of courses entitled "Great Works, Short Texts" -- one on German poetry, one on German stories, and one on German theory/philosophy. In addition, in his course on Advanced Grammar and Reading, he teaches undergraduates and graduate students how to read sophisticated German literary and philosophical texts with precision.

Additional information, including a select bibliography, is available at http://scholar.harvard.edu/burgard/.