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Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities
Expertise: German Romanticism, European Romanticism, German exile literature, contemporary scholarly discourses, postmodernism, postcolonialism, globalization, cultural studies
Bio: Lützeler teaches in both the German Department and the Comparative Literature Program. His research and teaching interests include German and European Romanticism, German exile literature, contemporary scholarly discourses (postmodernism, postcolonialism, globalization), and cultural studies in general. He has received many fellowships and awards both for his research and his teaching; he is an honorary member of the American Association of Teachers of German; he has received the German Cross of Merit 1st class and the Austrian Cross of Honor in Arts and Sciences 1st class and he is a member of two German academies.
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Education:
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Ph.D. in German Literature at Indiana University
Additional Background: Paul Michael Lützeler is the Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. He studied German and English Literature in Berlin, Edinburgh, Vienna, Munich and Indiana University where he received his Ph.D. in 1972.
Professor Lützeler is the author of Hermann Broch. A Biography, a book that appeared in German, English, Spanish, and Japanese, and received the DAAD Prize of the German Studies Association. He wrote two books on the idea of Europe in German and European literature, as well as six other books on topics of 19th and 20th century German literature and edited many volumes in his areas of research. Momentarily he is working on a project concerning the topic of the "third world" in contemporary German literature. He is the director of the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature at Washington University's German Department.
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