Daub received a
B.A. from
Swarthmore College in 2003 before completing an
M.A. and
Ph.D. at the
University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation dealt with the marriage philosophies in
German Romanticism and
Idealism and was under the direction of
Liliane Weissberg. Daub was an assistant professor of German (2008–2013) and associate professor of German (2013–2016) at Stanford and was appointed full Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature in 2016. At Stanford, he served as the Director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2016–2020) and, since 2019, has served as the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute at Stanford. Daub has been the co-editor of the Goethe Yearbook and General Editor of Republics of Letters – A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts. Daub's scholarship focuses on the history of German literature, culture, and intellectual life since 1790,
German Idealism and
German Romanticism, philosophy, gender and sexuality, German literature and
film since the end of World War II, music and
German modernism, operas of the
fin de siècle, the
Frankfurt School,
photography and literature, and
collective memory. ==Bibliography (selected works)==