Anthony Krupp

Current employment

I teach and tutor for The Princeton Review, and regularly engage in promotional activities for the company. I am trained in SAT, ACT, and MCAT-Verbal.

Recent employment

From 2008-2014, I taught German (language, literature, and culture); AP Psychology; and Theory of Knowledge for the International Baccalaureate program at Coral Reef Senior High School.

I have professional Florida certification through 2018 in English 6-12, German K-12, Humanities K-12, and Social Science 6-12.

Teaching awards (secondary level)

Goethe Institut Award of Excellence (2011-2012)

Stanford University Teaching Excellence Award (2010-2011)

German Embassy Teacher of Excellence award (2010-2011)

Rookie Teacher of the Year at Coral Reef Senior High School (2009-2010)

Teaching awards (university level)

Innovative Course Design Award, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (2006)

Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Miami (2006)

Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Miami Greek Community (2002)

A syllabus, an essay on teaching philosophy, and a video recording on teaching techniques are available through the previous links.

See also ratemyprofessors.com.

Book publications

(1) My book, Reason's Children. Childhood in Early Modern Philosophy (ISBN 0838757219), is one of The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. It is currently available here:[1]

My study contains chapters on Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Wolff, and Baumgarten, as well as a translation into English of a text by Pierre Bayle.

According to reviewers, my book will contribute to three different fields of scholarship (the history of childhood, the history of philosophy, and eighteenth-century studies):

"One must be grateful for a book like Reason’s Children that combines erudition and elegance, wit and humane feeling, ingenuity and insight. It is the child not of fashion, but of painstaking scholarship and sound judgment. Anthony Krupp confidently guides his reader through uncharted terrain, pointing out discovery after discovery along the way. Where we formerly imagined there to be only desert, a garden now teems with ideas. Krupp’s concise and yet abundant study will be considered indispensable to eighteenth-century studies for years to come."

-David E. Wellbery, LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, University of Chicago

"Looking anew at familiar texts and introducing a wealth of material that will be unfamiliar to most English-language readers, Krupp explores how early modern philosophers grappled with the challenges that children, lacking reason, posed to thought in the 'age of reason.' His scrupulous readings yield a major contribution to the history of childhood."

-James Schultz, author of The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350

"The place of childhood in the thinking of major philosophers has not been much appreciated, or even well understood. Anthony Krupp’s Reason's Children makes a major contribution toward remedying the situation. His carefully researched study expands our understanding of what John Locke has to say about children. Moreover, in surveying the role of children in the thinking of Descartes, Leibniz, Wolff, and Baumgarten, Krupp explores largely virgin territory. This work is an important contribution to the history of modern philosophy and to the relatively new field of childhood studies."

-Gareth B. Matthews, author of The Philosophy of Childhood

Moving easily between philosophical and literary-critical analyses, Krupp offers an interdisciplinary study that should have broad appeal. ... If the test of academic research is whether it serves as both a reference and a standard of analytic rigor for the scholars who follow, Reason's Children passes with flying colors on both counts.

-Jan Mieszkowski, The German Quarterly 83.1

(2) My edited collection of articles on the works of Karl Philipp Moritz, Karl Philipp Moritz: Signaturen des Denkens (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 77) (ISBN 9042032200) has appeared with Rodopi Publishers. Click here[2] for a review.

Article publications

For direct access to PDFs of my article publications, click here: http://sites.google.com/site/anthonykrupp/Home/publications.

“Review Essay: Recent Work on Karl Philipp Moritz,” German Quarterly 80.4 (2007): 531-33.

“Cultivation as Maturation: Infants, Children, and Adults in Alexander Baumgarten’s Aesthetica,” Monatshefte 98.4 (2006): 524-38.

“Observing Children in an Early Journal of Psychology: Karl Philipp Moritz’s Gnothi sauton (Know Thyself),” Fashioning Childhood in the Eighteenth Century: Age and Identity, ed. Anja Müller (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), 33-42.

“Das Gehen als Grundfigur bei Karl Philipp Moritz,” Karl Philipp Moritz in Berlin 1786-1793, ed. Christof Wingertszahn and Ute Tintemann (Laatzen: Wehrhahn, 2005), 215-32.

“Großer Dankchoral, Op. 5” and “Notes on the Krupp/Brecht Großer Dankchoral,” Brecht Yearbook 30 (2005): 353-61.

“1865, Summer: Unruly Children. Wilhelm Busch publishes Max und Moritz, a forerunner of the comics that would become one of Germany’s most popular books.” A New History of German Literature, ed. David E. Wellbery (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), 608-14.

“Other Relations: the Pre-History of le moi and (das) Ich in Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Philipp Moritz, and Johann Gottlieb Fichte,” Goethe Yearbook 11 (2002): 111-31.

Work on the web

Around 2006-2007, I worked to systematically improve wikipedia articles, lists, and categories related to German-language literature and German-language philosophy. It seems the lede material, hammered out through many editorial discussions, has withstood the test of time. I stressed particularly that the term "German" should be understood as a linguistic marker, not as a national or ethnic one.

And here are a number of German class project videos[3].

Musical compositions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA8JUa93Wk4&list=PLF692D9DF42E77747&index=5&feature=plpp_video

http://sites.google.com/site/anthonykrupp/Home/music-1