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Kurt Beals is visiting associate professor of German and Humanities Fellow in Literary Translation at the University of Richmond. His research focuses on experimental movements in twentieth-century and contemporary German literature, as well as media theory and translation. He is the author of Wireless Dada: Telegraphic Poetics in the Avant-Garde (2020) and articles about authors including Max Bense, Paul Celan, Ferdinand Kriwet, and Regina Ullmann. He has translated a wide range of works from German into English. His translation of Jenny Erpenbeck's speech and essay collection Kein Roman (Not a Novel) was included in World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations of 2020. His new translation of Hermann Hesse's classic novel Steppenwolf was published in 2023.