Paul Reitter, Professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Ohio University and co-editor and translator of CAPITAL: Vol 1 | Source | Professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Ohio State University

Paul Reitter is professor of Germanic languages and literatures and former director of the Humanities Institute at the Ohio State University.

Reitter’s scholarship focuses primarily on two areas: German-Jewish culture and the history of higher education. Of particular concern in both cases have been the links between intellectual and institutional history, the relationship of cultural crisis and cultural innovation, and the effects of technological change on humanistic culture. A practicing translator, Reitter is also interested in the field of translation studies. He is the author of three books. The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe (U of Chicago Press, 2008), On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred (Princeton UP, 2012), and Bambi’s Jewish Roots: Essays on German-Jewish Culture (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Along with Paul North, he is a co-editor to the forthcoming annotated English edition of Marx Capital (Vol. 1) from Princetown University Press, which will include his own new translation of the text.