Martin Klebes is Department Head of the Department of German & Scandinavian. He is Associate Professor of German and also the Editor of the electronic interdisciplary German Studies journal Konturen that is housed in the department. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies in 2003 from Northwestern University. He taught at Kenyon College and at the University of New Mexico before coming to Oregon in 2007.

Martin’s research focuses on the interrelation between literary and philosophical texts from the Enlightenment to the present, with particular emphasis on the German tradition. He is currently working on a book about dialogue as a medium in modern literature, philosophy, and culture.

Coordinating editor for the following parapluie issues:

• parapluie 25: Übertragungen (co-edited with Alexander Schultz, Fall 2008).
• parapluie 20: Ohr (co-edited with Anke Bahl, Spring 2005).
• parapluie 10: Virtuelle Städte (Summer 2001).

• “Email aus Chicago: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” (April 2002).
• “Es war einmal der Mensch: Comte und Houellebecq erinnern (an) uns,” parapluie 8: Zeitenwenden (Summer 2000).
• “Heart of Lightness: Tim im Kongo und in Amerika,” parapluie 5: Perspektive Afrika (Winter 1998).
• “Art-Crime, Inc.: Das Rätsel um die Kunst,” parapluie 4: Schönheit und Ideal (Summer 1998).
• “Kultur-Nachhilfe in Las Vegas,” parapluie 3: Unkultur (Winter 1997).
• “Wunschlos glücklich?,” parapluie 2: Sehnsucht (Summer 1997).

• “Heiner Frost: Lenzenhorst oder Die Zeit ausschütten,” parapluie 20: Ohr (Spring 2005).
• “Greil Marcus: Invisible Republic,” parapluie 5: Perspektive Afrika (Winter 1998).
• “Sam Shepard: Spencer Tracy ist nicht tot. Erzählungen,” parapluie 4: Schönheit und Ideal (Summer 1998).

• "Carol Jacobs, Sebald's Vision" (book review), Konturen 10 (2019).

• "Mutiny of an Error: Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on Suicide," Konturen 7 (2015).

• “If Worlds Were Stories,” Konturen 2 (2009).