 | Rainer Nägele |
Rainer Nägele, newly ,appointed as the first incumbent of the Alfred
C. and Martha F. Mohr Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, specializes
in literary theory, aesthetics, philosophy and psychoanalysis, and German and
comparative literature from the 18th to the 20th century.
T H I S
Nägele is first incumbent of Mohr Professorship
The new professorship was established in June 2005 through the bequest of Alfred
C. Mohr ’26.
Nägele joined the Yale faculty in 2006 after teaching from 1979 to 2005
at The Johns Hopkins University, where he served three separate terms as chair
of the German department.
He is the author or co-author of a dozen books, including “Reading after
Freud: Essays on Goethe, Hölderlin, Habermas, Nietzsche, Brecht, Celan
and Freud,” “Echoes of Translation: Reading Between Texts” and “Theater,
Theory, Speculation: Walter Benjamin and the Scenes of Modernity.” Many
of these works are in German.
In addition, he has edited seven books, including two on Walter Benjamin, and
has contributed book chapters and numerous articles to professional publications.
Nägele studied in Switzerland and Liechtenstein before attending the University
of Innsbruck in Austria and graduating from the University of Göttingen
in Germany (then West Germany). He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of
California at Santa Barbara. Earlier in his career, he taught at the University
of Iowa and Ohio State University. He has been a visiting professor at the
University of Hamburg in Germany and the Center for Cultural Studies at the
University of Aarhus in Denmark.
Nägele has served on the editorial boards of New German Critique, The
German Quarterly, Studies in 20th Century Literature, MLN and Comparatio. He
has been an adviser to the editorial board of the Historical Critical Edition
of Hölderlin (Frankfurt edition).
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