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Martin Wagner
Positions
Professor, German
Faculty of Arts, School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures
Contact information
Background
Educational Background
Doctor of Philosophy Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, 2014
Mag.phil. German philology, University of Vienna, 2009
Biography
Martin Wagner received his Ph.D. in Germanic languages and literatures from Yale University in 2014 and subsequently taught comparative literature at Yonsei University, Underwood International College, before joining the University of Calgary in 2016. In his research, Martin focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European literature as well as on German intellectual history.
Martin is the book review editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. https://www.utpjournals.press/journals/seminar/scope
Research
Areas of Research
Courses
Course number | Course title | Semester |
---|---|---|
GERM 31711 LEC 02 02 | Topics in German Cultural Hist | 2020 |
GERM 35704 LEC 01 01 | Topics in Film | 2020 |
GERM 36913 LEC 01 01 | Exploring German Literature | 2020 |
GERM 415 LEC 01 01 | Inter German: Read & Write | 2020 |
GERM 69913 LEC 01 01 | Conference Course | 2020 |
GERM 69914 LEC 01 01 | Conference Course | 2020 |
Projects
Martin is currently collaborating with Elystan Griffiths on the project "Obedience and the Germans: A Cultural History, 1773–1982," funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant (2021–2025).
Martin is currently working on the project "The History of the Idea that Illustrations in Literature Limit the Imagination," funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2023–2025).
This project builds on an article recently published in "Word and Image" (and co-authored with Dante Prado): "Against Illustration: Towards a New Field of Inquiry in Illustration Studies."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02666286.2023.2236921?src=exp-la
Publications
- A Stage for Debate: The Political Significance of Vienna's Burgtheater, 1814-1867.. Martin Wagner. University of Toronto Press. 240.
- The Narratology of Observation: Studies in a Technique of European Literary Realism. . Martin Wagner. De Gruyter. 183. (2018)
- Selected Works by J. M. R. Lenz. Martin Wagner, Ellwood Wiggins. Camden House. 380. (2019)
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