Martin Kagel
Professor of German and Department Head
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison)
202 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 542-2446
Email: mkagel@uga.edu © 200 |
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Photo © 2007 Danielle Hutlas |
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Martin Kagel's teaching and research focuses on eighteenth- and twentieth-century German literature and culture. He is the author of Strafgericht und Kriegstheater: Studien zur Ästhetik von Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1997) and the editor of an issue on J.M.R. Lenz in the series text+kritik (2000) and of Ewald Christian von Kleist's short novel in verse Cißides und Paches (2006). In 2001, he co-edited Rolf Dieter Brinkmann: Blicke ostwärts - westwärts (with Gudrun Schulz). He has published numerous articles and book chapters on a wide variety of topics, such as the environmental vision of Ludwig Klages, Günther Anders' philosophy of technology, Karl Löwith's concept of history, George Tabori's Holocaust writings, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's notion of friendship, aesthetics and politics in Johann Gottfried Seume, Marianne Ehrmann’s pedagogical poetics, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's war experience. Martin Kagel has been a Lilly Teaching Fellow (1999-2001) and has received the Sandy Beaver Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000). In 2003, he won the Richard B. Russell Undergraduate Teaching Award and, in 2008, was inducted into the University of Georgia Teaching Academy. Between 2002 and 2008, he served as president of the International Lenz Society.
Courses:
HONS 3620H The Wild Berlin of Bertolt Brecht (Honors Seminar)
GRMN 4410 The Holocaust in German Literature and Film
GRMN 4510 Others and Selves: Friendship in Eighteenth-Century Germany
GRMN 8540 Literature, the Military, & Nationalism in Germany, 1740-1815
GRMN 8540 The Meaning of Culture |
Recent Publications:
"Ritual Remembrance: George Tabori's The Cannibals in Transnational Perspective." /Transcultural German Studies: Building Bridges/Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Brücken bauen/. Ed. Steven D. Martinson and Renate A. Schulz. Bern: Lang, 2008. 197-217.
"La chercheuse d'esprit: Gender, Mobility, and the Crisis of Authorship in J.M.R. Lenz's Conception of Soldiers' Marriages." German Life and Letters 61/1 (2008): 97-116.
"Wer war Han Shan? Buddhistische Denkfiguren bei Rolf Dieter Brinkmann." Brinkmann - Schnitte im Atemschutz. Ed. Karl-Eckhard Carius. München: text + kritik, 2008. [with Glenn Wallis]
"»Wie ein Strom, im frühen Lentz, [...] so rauscht die wilde Schaar Athens daher [...].« - Kriegserfahrung und Katastrophenmetaphorik in Ewald Christian von Kleists Cißides und Paches." Das Erdbeben von Lissabon und der Katastrophendiskurs im 18. Jahrhundert. Ed. Gerhard Lauer and Thorsten Unger. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008. 466-481. |
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Current projects include work on a book-length essay on the theory and culture of friendship in eighteenth-century Germany and the preparation of the publication of proceedings from a 2008 conference held on the University of Georgia campus, entitled The Meaning of Culture: German Studies in the 21st Century. |
Connections:
International Brecht Society
Ciné
Wehrhahn Verlag
The Meaning of Culture Conference |
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