Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf

From 1995 until 1998 she was Professor for New German Studies, especially for the Theory of Literature and Rhetoric, at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Since 1998 she is Professor for Modern German Literature at the University of Münster. She held Visiting Professorships at the University of Washington in Seattle, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, the Xi’an International Studies University, China, and at the National Mirzo-Ulugbek University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf studied from 1976 to 1987 Germanics and History at the Eberhards-Karl-Universität Tübingen, Germany. In 1987 she obtained her doctorate degree (Dr. phil.) from Tübingen University with a dissertation on Mysticism and Modernity (title: Mystik der Moderne). From 1987 to 1994, Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of „Literary Studies“ at the University of Konstanz. As a member of the team of Professor v. Graevenitz, she completed her habilitation in 1994 with a study on the Melancholy of Literature (title: Die Melancholie der Literatur).

Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf (born 1957) is a Professor of German Literature at the University of Münster, Germany, and holds a chair in German Literary History with special focus on Modernity and Contemporary Literature. Her fields of research include Autobiography/Autofiction, Literary Theory, Rhetoric, Literary and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, the relation of Religion, Politics and Literature as well as Law and Literature.