Paul Michael Lutzeler

Title:	Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities Professor of German Professor of Comparative Literature
Degree:	PHD, Indiana University - Bloomington MA, Indiana University - Bloomington
Dept:	Comparative Literature Germanic Languages & Literatures
Office:	Ridgley Hall 323
Mailbox:	Campus Box 1104 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Hide Full Mailing Address
Phone:	(314) 935-4784
E-mail:	jahrbuch@wustl.edu

Courses

German Literature and Culture: 1750-1830; Methodology and Bibliography; Europe, an Imagined Community

Research Interests

Professor Lutzeler's research interests include German and European Romanticism, German exile literature, contemporary scholarly discourses (postmodernism, postcolonialism, globalization), and cultural studies in general. Currently, 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.

Selected Publications:

Europäische Identität und Multikultur. Fallstudien zur deutschsprachigen Literatur seit der Romantik (Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1997).

Klio oder Kalliope? Literatur und Geschichte (Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1997).

Die Entropie des Menschen. Studien zum Werk Hermann Brochs (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2000).

Kulturbruch und Glaubenskrise. Brochs "Schlafwandler" und Grünewalds "Isenheimer Altar" (Tübingen: Francke, 2001).

Postmoderne und postkoloniale deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2005).

Kontinentalisierung: Das Europa der Schriftsteller (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2007).