About the Faculty

Rainer Nägele
rainer.nagele@yale.edu

Rainer Nägele joined the Yale faculty in January of 2006. He has taught and written on German literature from the Baroque to the twentieth century and has written as well on French and classical Greek literature. His many books include: Heinrich Böll - Einführung in das Werk und die Forschung; Peter Handke; Literatur und Utopie - Versuche zu Hölderlin; Text, Geschichte und Subjektivität in Hölderlins Dichtung: Uneßbarer Schrift gleich; Reading after Freud. Essays on Goethe, Hölderlin, Habermas, Nietzsche, Brecht, Celan, and Freud; Theater, Theory, Speculation: Walter Benjamin and the Scenes of Modernity; Echoes of Translation - Reading Between Texts; Lesarten der Moderne - Essays; Literarische Vexierbilder - Drei Versuche zu einer Figur; Echos: Übersetzen. Lesen zwischen Texten; Hölderlins Kritik der poetischen Vernunft.