GHEA21 Faculty

Ulrike Wagner

Ulrike Wagner is director of the German Studies Program at Bard College Berlin. She received her PhD in German and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, an MA in North American Studies and German Literature from the Free University of Berlin, and was a visiting Fulbright scholar in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University. At Bard College Berlin she has developed a variety of courses on European and American Romanticism, Germany’s Jewish Enlightenment, the literature and culture of the Weimar period in Berlin, contemporary debates in the German public sphere, and an OSUN network course on Feminism and Community. Her current research interests concern the global history of the humanities and practices of philology; relations between German Romanticism and American Transcendentalism in the context of religious debates, historicism, classicism, and aesthetics; German-Jewish women writers; and feminist theory and practice. She has published, among others, in Literature and Theology, the Hegel Bulletin, Herder Jahrbuch/Herder Yearbook, the Oxford Handbook series, and Amerikastudien/American Studies. She is currently completing a monograph, titled Transatlantic Philology: Emerson, Germaine de Staël, Fuller, Herder, and the Critical Practices of Reordering Religion and Antiquity.