10 Facts About Alexander Stephan

Alexander Stephan was a specialist in German literature and area studies.

Alexander Stephan was a professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar, and Senior Fellow of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University.

Alexander Stephan was the author of books, among others, on Anna Seghers, Christa Wolf, Max Frisch, and Peter Weiss.

Alexander Stephan was the first researcher who obtained access to the documents which the FBI kept on German exile writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger, Thomas Mann and Anna Seghers.

At the OSU Mershon Center, Alexander Stephan concentrated on international security and US-European cultural relations.

Alexander Stephan wrote about the impact of American culture on the GDR and published five collections of essays analyzing Americanization and anti-Americanism in Germany and in Europe after 1945.

Alexander Stephan's publications were discussed on German television, by CNN, and in papers such as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and The Guardian.

Alexander Stephan's widow, Halina Stephan, is a Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures.

Alexander Stephan has been director of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at Ohio State University.

Alexander Stephan specializes in Russian avant-garde literature and Polish theatre.