Agnes Mueller

Agnes Mueller (M.A., LMU Munich, Germany, 1993, Ph.D., Vanderbilt U, 1997), is Professor of German and comparative literature. She is core faculty in Jewish Studies and in Comparative Literature, and affiliated with Women's and Gender Studies. She is currently at the American Academy in Berlin as the Carol Kahn Strauss Fellow in Jewish Studies. Her essay publications are on German-American relations, multicultural studies, gender issues in contemporary literature, German Jewish studies, and Holocaust memory studies. Her 2004 anthology German Pop Culture: How "American" Is It? (U of Michigan P) is widely used for teaching and research. Her most recently published book is entitled The Inability to Love: Jews, Gender, and America in Recent German Literature (Northwestern UP, 2015), available in German translation as Die Unfähigkeit zu lieben (2017). With Katja Garloff she edited German Jewish Literature After 1990 (Camden House, 2018). She is currently at work on a new book, entitled Holocaust Migration: The Future of Memory, tracing the challenges of new writings depicting multi-ethnic identities where past Holocaust trauma figures as a meta frame.