Michael Thomas Taylor

Michael Thomas Taylor works primarily as a translator and editor in Berlin. From 2007 to 2012, he taught at the University of Calgary as assistant professor of German, and from 2012 to 2017 as assistant, then associate professor of German and humanities at Reed College. His coauthored book Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories (written with Alex Bakker, Rainer Herrn, and Annette F. Timm; University of Calgary Press, 2020) was selected as a 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He has also co-curated exhibitions combining histories of sexuality with contemporary art, most recently Trans Trans in Berlin at the Schwules Museum in 2020, to be shown again in Munich at the Amerikahaus in 2022. Significant scholarly translations include History, Space, and Place by Susanne Rau (Routledge, 2019), Uexküll’s Surroundings by Florian Sprenger and Gottfried Schnödl (forthcoming), and Making an Entrance: Appearing on Stage from Racine to Nietzsche by Juliane Vogel (forthcoming), in addition to other research. Recent translations of trade publications include The Essence of Berlin-Tegel: Taking Stock of an Airport’s Architecture (jovis, 2020).
He holds a PhD in German from Princeton University (2007).

Website: http://michaeltaylor.de


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Dr. Michael Thomas Taylor
German Language and Literature
m.taylor[at]berlin.bard.edu