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Martin Wagner

PhD

Positions

Professor, German

Faculty of Arts, School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures

Contact information

Email

martin.wagner@ucalgary.ca

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

German studies, Comparative literature, Literary history, Intellectual history

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

Obedience and the Germans: A Cultural History, 1773–1982

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).

The History of the Idea that Illustrations in Literature Limit the Imagination

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

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