Stanley Corngold, a graduate of Columbia and Cornell Universities, is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton, where he taught for more than 40 years. On his retirement in 2009, St received the Howard T. Behrman Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities at Princeton. He has published widely on modern German writers (e.g., Dilthey, Nietzsche, Musil, Kraus, Mann, Benjamin, Adorno, among others) but for the most part has been translating and writing on the work of Franz Kafka. In 2008, with Benno Wagner and Jack Greenberg, Stanley edited, with commentary, Franz Kafka: the Office Writings (Princeton). In 2009, he was a Visiting Fellow at King’s College, Cambridge, and in 2010, a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, where he completed three book projects. With Benno Wagner he wrote Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine (Northwestern) and translated Goethe’s The Sufferings of Young Werther (Norton); and with Ruth V. Gross edited a collection of essays titled Kafka for the 21^st Century (Camden House). He is the founder of the Princeton Kafka Consortium, which links the Universities of Princeton, Oxford, and Humboldt, and in 2011 was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since then he has lectured at Princeton, Harvard, Utah, Southern Florida, and Clark Universities, with lectures forthcoming at Oxford, Antwerp, and Taiwan. In 2010, Stanley participated in a workshop at Yellow Barn devoted to György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments.