Bio

Agnes Mueller (M.A., LMU Munich, Germany, 1993, Ph.D., Vanderbilt U, 1997), Professor, is an expert on recent and contemporary German literature. She is core faculty in Comparative Literature and affiliated with Women's and Gender Studies and with Jewish Studies. Her publications are on German-American relations, multicultural studies, gender issues in contemporary literature, German-Jewish studies, and Holocaust studies. Her 2004 anthology German Pop Culture: How "American" Is It? (U of Michigan P) is widely used for teaching and research. In addition to all levels of German language and culture, she regularly teaches advanced undergraduate and graduate classes, and has lectured in Germany, Canada, and the U.S. Her most recently published book is entitled The Inability to Love: Jews, Gender, and America in Recent German Literature now available in German translation as Die Unfaehigkeit zu lieben. She is currently at work on a new project, entitled Holocaust Migration: Jewish Fiction in Today's Germany. In it, she traces the ways in which challenges of living in a multi-ethnic society where past trauma is dispersed are negotiated. 

Podcasts

• Jennifer Frey, host: “Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice with Agnes Mueller.” Sacred and Profane Love. Episode 29.  December 31, 2020.
• Passport Playlist DJs, hosts: “An Interview with Dr. Agnes Mueller.” Passport Playlist. Episode 6. March 27, 2019.
• Curtis Rogers, host: “Global Studies with Dr. Agnes Mueller.” Library Voices SC. Podcast of the South Carolina State Library. Episode 51. May 24, 2018.

Agnes Mueller in the News

• Teaching Pandemics in Literature
• Essay about Religion and Pandemics