Martin Kagel
Associate 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 Schultz). 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. He also serves 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 |
| Recent Publications: |
| “Space to Breathe: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s Late Poetry.” Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism and Translation 4 (2007): 47-56.
Ewald Christian von Kleist. Cißides und Paches. Ed. Martin Kagel. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2006.
“Heillose Historie – Sinn der Geschichte und geschichtlicher Sinn in Autobiographie und Geschichtstheorie Karl Löwiths.” Weltoffener Humanismus. Philosophie, Philologie und Geschichte in der deutsch-jüdischen Emigration. Ed. Gerald Hartung and Kay Schiller. Bielefeld: transcript, 2006. 35-52. |
| Current Projects: |
| Current projects include a book on the theory and culture of friendship in eighteenth-century Germany and the organization of a German Studies Conference entitled The Meaning of Culture: German Studies in the 21st Century to be held on the University of Georgia campus March 28-29, 2008. |
Connections:
International Brecht Society
International Lenz Society
Ciné
Wehrhahn Verlag
The Meaning of Culture Conference |
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