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PAUL MICHAEL LÜTZELER

Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities

Phone 314.935.4784, Fax 314.935.7255

jahrbuch@wustl.edu • Website

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 is the editor of the Collected Works of Hermann Broch. He wrote three 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. He is the editor in chief of the yearbook, Gegenwartsliteratur (2002 ff), and serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals. At the moment, he is working on a project concerning the topic of contemporary German literature. He is the director of the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature at Washington University’s German Department. He received Washington University's Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award.

He teaches both in the German Department as well as in European Studies 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 received many fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim) and awards both for his research and his teaching; he is an honorary member of the AATG and received the AATG's Outstanding Educator Award; he received the German Cross of Merit 1st class and the Austrian Cross of Honor in Arts and Sciences 1st class, the Goethe Medal, and the Humboldt-Forschungspreis; he is a member of two German academies; President of the International Hermann Broch Society, and Vice-President of the International Germanistik Association (IVG).

Office Ridgley Hall 323	Mailing Address Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Campus Box 1104 Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Mailbox Ridgley Hall 319

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