Stephen Kern taught at Northern Illinois University, completing his time there as a Distinguished Research Professor, before coming to Ohio State in 2002. He was appointed a Humanities Distinguished Professor at Ohio State in 2004. He has been awarded A.C.L.S., N.E.H., Rockefeller, and Guggenheim Fellowships and received the Ohio Academy of History Distinguished Historian Award for 2007.

Stephen Kern specializes in modern European and American cultural and intellectual history. His publications include Anatomy and Destiny: A Cultural History of the Human Body (Bobbs-Merrill, 1975); The Culture of Time and Space: 1880-1918 (Harvard UP, 1983, 2003); The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns (Harvard UP, 1992); Eyes of Love: The Gaze in English and French Paintings and Novels (NYU, 1996); A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought (Princeton UP, 2004), The Modernist Novel: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge UP, 2011), and Modernism After the Death of God: Christianity, Fragmentation, and Unification (Routledge, 2017). His work has been translated into German, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese. He is currently working on a study of ideas about beginnings, origins, and foundations in Europe and America from 1850 to 1930.

Project Q: Peace & Security in a Quantum Age - Interview of Professor Kern

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