Laurence Arthur Rickels

Background

Rickels, Laurence Arthur was born on December 2, 1954 in Cherokee, Iowa, United States. Son of Karl and Christa (Loessin) Rickels.

Education

Bachelor in English Literature, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1975. Hauptseminaraufnahmeprufung, Freie University Berlin, Germany, 1975. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy in German Literature, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1980.

Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, Antioch University, Santa Barbara, California, 1994.

Career

Lecturer, U. Dusseldorf, Germany, 1980-1981; assistant professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1981-1986; associate professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986-1990; professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1990; chair department Germanic, Slavic and semitic studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1989-1995. Consultant Psychiatric Research Group, since 1982. Member Film Studies Advisory Board, University of California Santa Barbara, since 1987.

Regular contributor Artforum International, since 1992.

Achievements

• Laurence Arthur Rickels has been listed as a noteworthy foreign language educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Aberrations of Mourning

    ( Aberrations of Mourning, originally published in 1988, ...)

  • Aberrations of Mourning: Writing on German Crypts

    ( In Aberrations of Mourning, Laurence A. Rickels explore...)

  • The Vampire Lectures

    (Book by Rickels, Laurence A.)

  • Acting Out In Groups

    (Book by Rickels, Laurence A.)

  • Aberrations of Mourning by Rickels, Laurence A. (2011) Paperback

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  • The Vampire Lectures by Rickels, Laurence A. (1999) Paperback

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  • Aberrations of Mourning
  • ABERRATIONS OF MOURNING: WRITING ON GERMAN CRYPTS
  • The Vampire Lectures
  • [(The Vampire Lectures)] [Author: Laurence A. Rickels] published on (September, 1999)
  • Vampire Lectures
  • [(The Vampire Lectures)] [Author: Laurence A. Rickels] published on (September, 1999)

• Other Work

  • Author: Aberrations of Mourning, 1988, Der Unbetrauerbare Tod, 1989, The Case of California, 1991, The Vampire Lectures, 1999, Nazi Pscyhoanalysis, 2002. Editor: Looking After Nietzsche, 1990, Acting Out In Groups, 1999. Founding editor Art United States, since 2003.
    
    Contribution articles to professional journals.

Membership

Member Modern Language Association (delegate assembly member 1988-1990), International Initiative on Technology and the Unconscious-University of California Humanities Research Institute (founding).

Connections

Father:

Karl Rickels

Mother:

Christa (Loessin) Rickels