Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Professor Gumbrecht in Stanford's Quad
Born	(1948-06-15) 15 June 1948 (age 76) Würzburg, Germany
Nationality	American (German-born)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy
Institutions	Stanford University
Main interests	Western philosophy, European and Latin American literature, sport
Website	dlcl.stanford.edu/people/hans-ulrich-gumbrecht

Hans Ulrich "Sepp" Gumbrecht (born 15 June 1948)^[1] is a German-born American literary theorist whose work spans philology, philosophy, semiotics, literary and cultural history, and epistemologies of the everyday. As of June 14, 2018, he is Albert Guérard Professor Emeritus in Literature at Stanford University. Since 1989, he held the Albert Guérard Chair as Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and French and Italian in Stanford's Division of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures. By courtesy, he was also affiliated with the Departments of German Studies, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, and the Program in Modern Thought and Literature.^[2] Since retirement, he continues to be a Catedratico Visitante Permanente at the University of Lisbon and became a Presidential Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2020.^[3]

Gumbrecht's writing on philosophy and modern thought extends from the Middle Ages to today and incorporates an array of disciplines and styles, at times combining historical and philosophical inquiry with elements of memoir. Much of Gumbrecht's scholarship has focused on national literatures in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German, and he is known for his work on the Western philosophical tradition, the materiality of presence, shifting views of the Enlightenment, forms of aesthetic experience, and the joys of watching sports.^[4]