John Hoberman

Professor, University of Texas

Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin, USA
ACADEMIC TRAINING 1975 Ph.D. Scandinavian Languages and Literature. University of California, Berkeley Dissertation: "The Psychology of the Collaborator in the Postwar Norwegian Novel." 1969 M.A. Scandinavian Languages and Literature. U. of California (Berkeley). 1964-66 Scandinavian Studies. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19174) 1963-64 Germanic Studies. Fordham University (Bronx, NY 10458) 1962-63, 1964-66 B.A. English Literature. Haverford College (Haverford, PA 19041)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS 1994-1995 Visiting Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University of Chicago 1992- Professor of Germanic Languages, The University of Texas at Austin 1985- Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, The University of Texas at Austin 1982-83 Visiting Scholar in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University 1979-85 Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages, The University of Texas at Austin 1976-79 Assistant Professor of Scandinavian, Harvard University 1975-76 Lecturer on Scandinavian, Harvard University 1974-75 Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1970-72 Teaching Assistant in Norwegian, University of California, Berkeley
AWARDS 1988 President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award ($5000; U. of Texas at Austin) 1966 Phi Beta Kappa (Haverford College)

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Spring, 94 University Research Institute Faculty Research Assignment (U. of Texas at Austin) 1989 University Research Institute Research Grant (University of Texas at Austin) Fall 1989 University Research Institute Faculty Research Assignment (U. of Texas at Austin) 1985 University Research Institute Special Research Grant (U. of Texas at Austin) 1985 Policy Research Institute Travel Grant (LBJ School of Public Affairs, U. of Texas at Austin 1984 University Research Institute Special Research Grant (U. of Texas at Austin) 1982-83 University Research Institute Faculty Research Assignment (U.of Texas at Austin) 1982-83 NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research 1982 University Research Institute Special Research Grant (U. of Texas at Austin) 1981 University Research Institute Special Research Grant (U. of Texas at Austin) 1980 University Research Institute Summer Research Award (U. of Texas at Austin) 1979 Norwegian Travel Grant (Norwegian Information Service 1979 American Philosophical Society Research Grant 1977 Norwegian Travel Grant (Norwegian Information Service) 1977 Committee on Faculty Support Research Grant (Harvard University) 1972 Fritz O. Fernstrom Travelling Fellowship (University of California) 1970 Mabel McLeod Lewis Fellowship (Stanford, CA) 1966-69 National Defense Graduate Fellowship (three-year award) 1966 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 1966 Augustus Taber Murray Fellowship (Haverford College) PUBLICATIONS BOOKS: Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport. New York: The Free Press, 1992.

• Dutch edition: Doping: De Atleet als Machine. Utrecht/Antwerp: Kosmos, 1992.
• German edition: Sterbliche Maschinen: Doping und die Unmenschlichkeit des Hochleistungssports. Aachen: Meyer & Meyer Verlag, 1994.
• Portugese edition: Mquinas Mortais: A Cincia do Desempenho e da Desumanizaao do Esporte (1996).

The Olympic Crisis: Sport, Politics, and the Moral Order. New Rochelle, New York: Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher, 1986. Recipient of the 1987 Olympic Book of the Year Award of the United States Olympic Committee Education Council. Sport and Political Ideology. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1984.

• British edition: Sport and Political Ideology. London:Heinemann, 1984.
• Italian edition: Politica e Sport. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1988.
• Spanish edition: Deportes e Ideologia Politica. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica.

Kafka's Body: Masculinity, Sport, and the Jews. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS: "The Sportive Agon in Ancient and Modern Times." In Janet Lungstrum and Elizabeth Sauer, eds., Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997). The Olympics." Encyclopedia of African American History and Culture (New York: Macmillan). "Das Dopingkonzept und die Zukunft des Olympischen Sports," in Gunter Gebauer, ed., Olympische Spiele: Die andere Utopie der Moderne Olympia zwischen Kult und Droge (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1996): 197-222. "The Sportive-Dynamic Body as a Symbol of Productivity." In Tobin Siebers, ed., Heterotopia: Postmodern Utopia and the Body Politic (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995): 199-228. "Otto and the Critique of Jewish Masculinity." In Nancy A. Harrowitz and Barbara Hyams, eds., Jews & Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995): 141-153. "Sport and Ideology in the Post-Communist Age." In Lincoln Allison, ed., The Changing Politics of Sport (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993): 15-36. "The Early Development of Sportsmedicine in Germany." In Jack Berryman and Roberta J. Park, eds., Sport and Exercise Science: Essays in the History of Sports Medicine (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1992): 233-282. "Creating the 'New Man': German and Soviet Sports Photographs Between the Wars." In Ellen Dugan, ed., This Sporting Life 1878-1991 (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1992): 27-37. "Olympic Universalism and the Apartheid Issue." In Fernand Landry, Marc Landry, and Magdeleine Yerls, eds., Sport... The Third Millenium [Proceedings of the International Symposium, Quebec City, Canada, May 21-25, 1990] (Sainte-Foy: Les Presses de l'Universit Laval, 1991): 523-534. "Drug Abuse, the Student-Athlete, and High-Performance Sport." In Richard Lapchick and John Slaughter, eds., The Rules of the Game: Ethics in College Sport (New York: Macmillan, 1989), pp. 83-98. "Olympic Internationalism and The Korea Herald," in The Olympic Movement and the Mass Media: Past, Present and Future Issues (Calgary: Hurford Enterprises Ltd., 1989), pp. 11-35 -- 11-41. "Kierkegaard on Vertigo," International Kierkegaard Commentary (1987), pp. 185-208. "Sport and the Technological Image of Man," in William J. Morgan and Klaus V. Meier, eds., Philosophic Inquiry in Sport (Champaign: Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc., 1987), pp. 319-327. "Die sportliche Muse: Lars Gustafssons Die Tennisspieler," in Ruprecht Volz, ed., Gustafsson Lesen (Mnchen/Wien: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1986), pp. 140-147.

• English version: "The Sportive Muse: Lars Gustafsson's Tennisspelarna," International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1987), pp. 360-364.
• Swedish version: "Tennisspelarna -- en tankesport," "in Att lsa Gustafsson (Stockholm: Norstedts Forlag, 1986), pp. 182-190.

"Current Trends in Norwegian Literary Criticism," The Nordic Mind: An Anthology of Scandinavian Literary Criticism. Eds. Frank E. Andersen, John M. Weinstock (University Press of America, 1986), pp. 197-203. "Kierkegaard's Two Ages and Heidegger's Critique of Modernity," International Kierkegaard Commentary (1984), pp. 223-258. "Bibliographical Spectrum (Norway)," Review of National Literatures, Vol. 12 (1983), pp. 185-207. "The Psychopathology of an Abortive Leadership: The Case of Vidkun Quisling," Tulane Studies in Political Science, Vol. XVI (1977), pp. 175-201. ARTICLES: "Listening to Steroids," The Wilson Quarterly (Winter 1995): 35-44. "The History of Artificial Testosterone" [with Charles E. Yesalis], Scientific American (February 1995): 60-65. "Toward a Theory of Olympic Internationalism," Journal of Sport History, 22 (Spring 1995): 1-37. "The Reunification of German Sports Medicine, 1989-1992." Quest, 45 (1993): 277-285. "The Transformation of East German Sport," Journal of Sport History, 17 (1990): 62-68. "Thor Heyerdahl," Scandinavian Review, Vol. 76, No. 2 (1988), pp. 23-29. "Sport and Social Change: The Transformation of Maoist Sport," Sociology of Sport Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1987), pp. 156-170. "The Body as an Ideological Variable: Sportive Imagery of Leadership and the State," Man and World, Vol. 14, No. 3 (1981), pp. 309-329. "Communist Sport Theory Today: The Case of Andrzej Wohl," Arena Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (February 1980), pp. 13-15. "Defining the Postwar French Ultra-Right: The View from Within," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, Vol. 6 (1978), pp. 322-330. "Sport and Political Ideology," Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer/Fall 1977), pp. 80-114. "Sport and the Marxists," Arena Newsletter, Vol. 1 No. 2 (February 1977), pp. 15-17. "Political Ideology and the Record Performance," Arena Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2 (February 1977), pp. 7-11. "The Political Imagination of Jens Bjrneboe: A Study of Under en hrdere himmel," Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Winter 1976), pp. 52-70. "The Mind of Maurice Bardche," The Psychohistory Review, Vol. V, No. 1 (June 1976), pp. 11-16. "Vidkun Quisling's Psychological Image," Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Summer 1974), pp. 242-264. RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES: I. Sport Studies "The Testosterone Market and the Future of Doping." Sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport and the Centre for Sport and Law, Ottawa, Canada, November 15, 1996. "The Future of Doping and Its Control." Presented at an International Symposium on Doping in Sport and Its Legal and Social Control, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, August 8, 1996. "Toward a Theory of Olympic Internationalism." Presented at the Sport, Philosophy and the Olympics Conference, Maryland College, Woburn, England, March 16, 1996. "Constructing Black Athletic Superiority: The Medical and Anthropological Origins of a Stereotype." Presented at a Conference on African-Americans and Sport, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, March 1, 1996. "The International Olympic Committee as a Supranational Elite." Presented at the 110th meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 6, 1996. "Doping and the Future of High-Performance Sport." Presented to the International Congress in Sports Medicine and Social Science in Athletics, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 3, 1995. "Listening to Steroids." Presented at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, March 13, 1995. "What Can We Do About Doping?" A seminar sponsored by the Amateur Athletic Foundation, Los Angeles, California, December 27, 1994. "The Democratization of the Body: Everyman as High Performer." Keynote address to be presented to the World Convention of the International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education, Berlin, June 24, 1994. "Imaging the Black Athlete: Toward Freedom or Bondage?" Presented at the Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, April 6, 1994. "The Black Athlete and America's Racial Crisis." Presented by the Speakers' Bureau of the University of Oklahoma Students Association and the African-American Studies Program, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, February 23, 1994. "Sport, testostrone et recherche scientifique." Presented at a colloquium titled "Ethique, Recherche et Sports du Particulier au Gnral," Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, January 28, 1994. "Drugs in Sport: The Real Issues." Sponsored lecture presented by the Warwick Centre for the Study of Sport in Society, University of Warwick, Great Britain, January 11, 1994. "Europeans Discover Black African Athleticism: An Historical Perspective." Presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Orlando, Florida, November 12, 1993. "Toppidrett og politisk press i Norge" [Elite Sport and Political Pressure in Norway]. Sponsored lecture presented by Norges Idrettshgskole [Norwegian Sports College], Oslo, Norway, September 1, 1993. "The Lillehammer Winter Olympiad as Cultural Nationalism." Presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, April 23, 1993. "The Emergence of the Sportive-Dymanic Body." Sponsored lecture presented by the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, January 30, 1993. "The Concept of Doping and the Future of the Olympic Games." Sponsored lecture presented at the Annual Meeting of the Philosophic Society for the Study of Sport, The Free University, Berlin, Germany, October 2, 1992. "Doping and the Reunification of German Sports Medicine." Presented at "Sport in the Global Village: Comparative Perspectives" [The Eighth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport], University of Houston, June 17, 1992. "A Theory of Olympic Internationalism." Keynote Address presented at the First International Symposium for Olympic Research, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, February 11, 1992. II. German/Jewish Studies "German-Jewish Interpretations of Courage at the Fin de Sicle." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Diego, California, December 30, 1994. "Nietzsche on the Body." Presented at "Nietzsche on the Plains: 1993 International Nietzsche Conference, University of Nebraska at Kearney, April 16, 1993. "Max Nordau and the Fin-de-Sicle Critique of the Jewish Male." Presented at the Colloque International: Max Nordau, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, July 9, 1992. M.A. Theses Supervised Carol Rhoades, 1981 Bjørn Freitag Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised Samuel McLellan John Casey Black David Brenner Jeffrey Grossman Martin Humpal COURSES TAUGHT The University of Texas at Austin (1979--) Undergraduate Courses Scandinavian 373 The Philosophy of Kierkegaard Scandinavian 301 Scandinavian Civilization Scandinavian 373 The Social Dramas of Henrik Ibsen Scandinavian 358 Scandinavia in its Fiction Norwegian 506-507 First-Year Norwegian Norwegian 604 Accelerated First-Year Norwegian Norwegian 312K, 312L Second-Year Norwegian Scandinavian 379 Advanced Norwegian German 505-507 First-Year German European Studies 361 Sport and Political Ideology European Studies 361 Fascism and European Literature European Studies 361 Political Violence and the Modern Novel European Studies 361 The Spy/Traitor in History and Literature Humanities 350 Sport, Politics, and the Olympic Games Humanities 350 Anti-Semitism in History and Literature Humanities 350 History of European Racial Thought Afro-American Studies 374 Race and Sport in African-American Life The University of Texas at Austin (1979--) Graduate Courses German 392 The Tales of Isak Dinesen [1982] German 392 Philosophy of Kierkegaard [1984] German 382M Germans and Jews in Central Europe [Spring 1990] German 382M Ernst Jnger and the Modern Age [Spring 1992]

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