MICHAEL HUFFMASTER
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Intereses académicos:
Michael Huffmaster, Assistant Professor of German, works at the intersection of language and literature. His current book project, Reading Kafka’s Mind: The Cognitive Poetics of a Translingual Imagination, uses cognitive theory to explain the Kafkaesque. In literary linguistics, his work focuses on speech act theory, metaphor theory, and translation. In language and literature education, his research investigates how adult foreign language and literature study fosters critical and creative thinking and promotes the core democratic values of liberal education.