Dennis McCort
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- St. Peter's Preparatory School (1959)
- Saint Peter's College (BA, 1963)
- Johns Hopkins University (MA, 1964; PhD, 1970)
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| Born | 1941 (age 84–85) Hoboken, New Jersey, USA |
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| Institutions | Syracuse University (1968-2007) |
Dennis McCort (born 1941) is an American literary scholar, translator, and novelist,[1] known for his work on German Romanticism, Franz Kafka, and the intersections of literature, religion, and Zen Buddhism.[2] He is professor emeritus of German at Syracuse University, where he taught for nearly four decades.
McCort was born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey,[3] and graduated from St. Peter's Preparatory School in 1959.[4] He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages from St. Peter's College in 1963, followed by a Master of Arts (1964) and Ph.D. (1970) in German Language and Literature from Johns Hopkins University.[5]
Academic career
McCort joined the faculty of Syracuse University in 1968 as an assistant professor of German.[2] He became associate professor in 1979 and was later promoted to full professor in 2001.[1] He held administrative roles, including program coordinator and associate chair within the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics. He retired from teaching in 2007.[2]
His academic work focused on 19th-century German literature, especially Romanticism, as well as the literary and philosophical traditions of Franz Kafka.[6] He also explored intersections between German literature and Eastern thought, particularly Zen Buddhism, a theme developed in his book Going Beyond the Pairs: The Coincidence of Opposites in German Romanticism, Zen, and Deconstruction (2001).[7]