Kurt Beals is visiting associate professor of German and humanities fellow in literary translation at the University of Richmond. He is the author of Wireless Dada: Telegraphic Poetics in the Avant-Garde; translator of books by Jenny Erpenbeck, Hermann Hesse, Erich Maria Remarque, Reiner Stach, Anja Utler, and Regina Ullmann; and coeditor of Hans Richters Rhythmus 21: Schlüsselfilm der Moderne (Hans Richter’s Rhythmus 21: Key Film of Modernism). In 2010 he was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award for Anja Utler's engulf–enkindle, and in 2012 he won the first ever German Book Office Translation Prize.
