Stephen Kern taught at Northern Illinois University for 32 years, completing his tenure there as a Distinguished Research Professor.  He went to Ohio State in 2002, where he is currently a Humanities Distinguished Professor.  He was awarded A.C.L.C., N.E.H., Rockefeller, and Guggenheim Fellowships and received the Ohio Academy of History Distinguished Historian Award for 2007.  He was an Honorary Research Fellow at Harvard University and a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Northwestern, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

His area of specialization is modern European cultural history, with particular interests in psychoanalysis, phenomenology, the body and sexuality, time and space, love, vision (the gaze), causality, and murder.  His major publications are ANATOMY AND DESTINY: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY (1975), THE CULTURE OF TIME AND SPACE: 1880-1918 (1983, 2003), THE CULTURE OF LOVE: VICTORIANS TO MODERNS (1992), EYES OF LOVE: THE GAZE IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH PAINTINGS AND NOVELS (1996), A CULTURAL HISTORY OF CAUSALITY: SCIENCE, MURDER NOVELS, AND SYSTEMS OF THOUGHT (2004).  He is currently researching a book of modernism, modernity, and narrative.

An excerpt in PDF from his best-known book on Modernism, THE CULTURE OF TIME AND SPACE: 1880-1918 is available through the links below.  Also, if students and faculty are interested in reading the entire work prior to the lecture a paperback version is available from Amazon.com.

Preface to The Culture of Time & Space 1880-1919 (link opens Word file)

The Culture of Time & Space 1880-1919 pt. 2 (link opens Word file)

The Culture of Time & Space 1880-1919 pt. 3 (link opens Word file)