sara eigen figal
book
Heredity, Race, and the Birth of the Modern. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2008. 201 pages.
edited book

The German Invention of Race. Sara Eigen [Figal] and Mark Larrimore. Eds. New York: SUNY Press, 2006. Reissued in paperback, 2007. 221 pages.
 
selected articles
 
 “When Brothers are Enemies: Frederick the Great’s Catechism for War,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 43: 1 (2009): 21-36.
 
“Liebe Perla, Memento Mori,” Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture 22 (2006): 1-20.
 
“Policing the Menschen=Racen,” in The German Invention of Race. Eds. Sara Eigen [Figal] and Mark Larrimore. New York: SUNY Press, 2006. 185-202.
 
 “Self, Race, and Species: Blumenbach’s Atlas Experiment,” German Quarterly 78 (2005): 277-298.
 
 “Hannah Arendt’s Lessing-Rede and the ‘Truths’ of History,” Lessing Yearbook 32 (2000): 309-324. 
 
 “A Mother’s Love, a Father’s Line:  Law, Medicine, and the Eighteenth-Century Fictions of Patrilineal Genealogy,” in Genealogie als Denkform. Eds. Kilian Heck and Bernhard Jahn.  Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2000. 87-107.
 
 
Forthcoming:
 
“The Point of Recognition: Enemy, Neighbor, Next-of-Kin,” Enlightened War: Theories and Cultures of Warfare in Eighteenth Century Germany. Eds. Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Simpson. Forthcoming with Camden House.
 
Sara Figal is currently working on a book in which she traces a much-neglected “military Enlightenment” through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German writing.

 
She has recently finished an essay and is beginning a book about scientific, literary, and philosophical representations of the “Caucasian” race in the eighteenth century.
When she feels the need to escape the eighteenth century, she also enjoys writing about film.