About John Zilcosky John Zilcosky is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, and editor of Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey also published by the University of Toronto Press. Books by John Zilcosky Alternative Temporalities The Emancipatory Power of Narrative edited by Teresa Valentini, Angela Weiser & John Zilcosky The Language of Trauma War and Technology in Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka by (author) John Zilcosky The Allure of Sports in Western Culture edited by John Zilcosky & Marlo A. Burks Writing Travel The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey by (author) John Zilcosky