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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
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Photo © 2007 Danielle Hutlas
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Martin Kagel's
research and teaching interests comprise German literature and culture from the 18th to the 21st-century. He has worked extensively on the aesthetics of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, the literary politics of Johann Gottfried Seume, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's poetry, and the Holocaust writings of Hungarian-German-Jewish author George Tabori. In addition, he has published articles and book chapters on topics such as 20th-century philosophy of history (Karl Löwith), technology (Günther Anders), and the environment (Ludwig Klages), contemporary landscape design, gender and authorship, the 18th-century culture of friendship, and the connection between 18th-century German literati and the military. Martin Kagel has been a Lilly Teaching Fellow and has received the Sandy Beaver Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Richard B. Russell Undergraduate Teaching Award. In 2008, became a member of the University of Georgia Teaching Academy.
Courses:
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GRMN 2410 Modern Germany and the Holocaust
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HONS 3620H The Wild Berlin of Bertolt Brecht (Honors Seminar)
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GRMN 4510 Others and Selves: Friendship in Eighteenth-Century Germany
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GRMN 8540 Brecht-Tabori-Jewishness
- GRMN 8540 Influence and Mediation: Triangular Readings in German Literature
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Recent Publications:
- "Der Deserteur," "Mädchenfreundschaft oder der türkischen Gesandte." Kotzebues Dramen: Ein Lexikon. Eds. Johannes Birgfeld, Julia Bohnengel und Alexander Košenina. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2011. 41-42 and 142-43.
- "Memory Gardens : Aesthetic Education and Political Emancipation in Duisburg 's Emscher Park ." German Studies Review 33.2 (2010): 243-61. [with Sarah Hemmings]
- "A Blank Slate: Peregrination and Prejudice in Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing." Publications of the English Goethe Society 79 (2010): 79-94
- "Johann Gottfried Seume." Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers. Eds. Manfred Kuehn and Heiner F. Klemme. London; New York: Continuum, 2010. 1086-87.
- "'Ihr sehet Pracht; ich, Leinwand, Erde, Stein.'-Formen der Unmittelbarkeit in der Lyrik Ewald von Kleists." Beiträge zur Kleist-Forschung 22 (2009): 107-115.
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Current Projects:
Current research includes work on a book-length essay on the theory and culture of friendship in 18th-century Germany and a study in transnational literary history centered around the relationship between playwrights George Tabori and Bertolt Brecht. |
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