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Anthony has been helping academics publish in English since 2015.

After a BA at the University of Pennsylvania (2006) and studying in Berlin, Konstanz, and Tübingen, Anthony received a PhD from the University of Chicago in German studies in 2014. He has held postdoctoral research positions in Tübingen and Zurich, been awarded SNSF, Mellon, and Fulbright research grants, and is currently a lecturer at the Language Center in Basel, Switzerland, where he has lived with his partner and children since 2012.

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Risi, Clemens. Opera in Performance: Analyzing the Performative Dimension of Opera Productions. Translated by Anthony Mahler. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022.

Ubl, Ralph. “Delacroix’s parade.” Translated by Anthony Mahler. In “La parade,” edited by Marika Takanishi Knowles and Christopher S. Wood. Thematic issue of RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 73/74 (Spring/Autumn 2020): 155–69.

Berndt, Frauke. Facing Poetry: Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten’s Theory of Literature. Translated by Anthony Mahler. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2020.

Hofmann, Henriette. “Frame, Plasticity, and Movement: The Dynamic Visibility of the Hildesheim Bronze Doors.” Translated by Anthony Mahler and Henriette Hofmann. In Enthüllen und Verbergen in der Vormoderne / Revealing and Concealing in the Premodern Period, edited by Henriette Hofmann, Barbara Schellewald, Sophie Schweinfurth, and Gerald Wildgruber, 201–22. Paderborn: Brill Fink, 2021.

Theisohn, Philipp. “Starship Troopers: The Shaping of the Space Warrior in Cold War Astroculture, 1950–80.” Translated by Anthony Mahler. In Militarizing Outer Space: Astroculture, Dystopia and the Cold War, edited by Alexander C. T. Geppert, Daniel Brandau and Tilmann Siebeneichner, 233–55. London: Palgrave Macmillian, 2021.

Kreis, Georg. Why Italy Was for Europe: On the History of the 1989 Advisory Referendum. Translated by Anthony Mahler. Basel: Schwabe, 2020.

Boehm, Gottfried. “A Singular Gaze.” Translated by Anthony Mahler. In Luca Del Baldo, The Visionary Academy of Ocular Mentality: Atlas of the Iconic Turn, 60–65. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2020.

Boehm, Gottfried. “Particularity: Thirty-Nine Portraits.” Translated by Anthony Mahler. In Bernhard Fuchs, Fathom, 3 unn. pp. London: Koenig Books, 2018.

Berndt, Frauke. “Grass: Gottfried Keller’s Structural Realism.” Translated by Alastair Matthews and Anthony Mahler. In “German Realisms around 1850,” edited by Frauke Berndt and Dorothea von Mücke. Special issue, Colloquia Germanica: Internationale Zeitschrift für Gemanistik 53, no. 4 (2021): 421–48.

Krieger, Verena. “Modes of Aesthetic Ambiguity in Contemporary Art: Conceptualizing Ambiguity in Art History.” Translated by Anthony Mahler. In “Ambiguity in Contemporary Art and Theory,” edited by Frauke Berndt and Lutz Koepnick, 59–103. Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2018.

Liesbrock, Heinz. Editor’s preface, translated by Anthony Mahler, to Josef Albers: Interaction, edited by Heinz Liesbrock in collaboration with Ulrike Grow, 12–15. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Liesbrock, Heinz. “Honesty and Modesty: Josef Albers.” Translated by Anthony Mahler. In Josef Albers: Interaction, edited by Heinz Liesbrock in collaboration with Ulrike Grow, 54–65. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.

Ubl, Ralph, and Wolfram Pichler. “Images without Objects and Referents? A Reply to Étienne Jollet’s Review of Our Bildtheorie zur Einführung.” Translated by Anthony Mahler. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 81 (2018): 418–24.

Bollnow, Otto Friedrich. The Nature of Stimmungen, chapters 2–3. Translated by Anthony Mahler, Jochen Koenigsmann, Stephan Meyer, and Jan Müller. In Philosophy of Emotion, edited by Angelika Krebs and Aaron Ben-Ze’ev, vol. 2, Emotions and the Good Life, 243–65. London: Routledge, 2017.Kambartel, Friedrich. “About Calmness: On Dealing Rationally with What Is beyond Our Control.” Translated by Anthony Mahler, Stephan Meyer, and Angelika Krebs. In Philosophy of Emotion, edited by Angelika Krebs and Aaron Ben-Ze’ev, vol. 2, Emotions and the Good Life, 51–57. London: Routledge, 2017.

Berndt, Frauke, and Sebastian Meixner. “Goethe’s Archaeology of the Modern Curse (Orest, Faust, Manfred).” Translated by Anthony Mahler. MLN 131, no. 3 (April 2016): 601–29.

Ubl, Ralph. “Prospectus: Blumenberg and Fried on Objecthood.” Translated by Anthony Mahler and Malika Maskarinec. In The Challenge of the Object / Die Herausforderung des Objekts, edited by Ulrich Grossmann and Petra Krutisch, 1271–75. Nürnberg: Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 2013.

Boehm, Gottfried. “The Hidden Hand.” Translated by Anthony Mahler and Malika Maskarinec. In Matthias Schaller, Das Meisterstück. Venice: Le Stanze del Vetro, 2015.