Jake Fraser is an Associate Professor of German and the Humanities at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon. He specializes in late eighteenth- and early twentieth-century German literature and philosophy, with emphases in philosophies of time and history and histories of science and technology. At Reed, he teaches courses on 20th-century German thought and literature, psychoanalysis, and media studies. He has published on figures and topics ranging from Heinrich von Kleist and early modern print media to Franz Kafka and technologies of bureaucracy. He is currently completing a book-length study of theories and technologies of “retroactivity” (Nachträglichkeit) from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Future projects include a study of the metaphorics of the Book of Nature in the late eighteenth century and a media history of latency and delay.