Harro Müller

Professor Harro Müller (Ph.D. Cologne 1973; Habilitation Bielefeld 1979) has been teaching at Columbia University since 1991. He has held visiting professorships at Cornell University (1982), Emory University (1987), the University of Bordeaux (1988), and at Columbia (1991). He acted as Vice President of the Groupe de Recherche sur la Culture de Weimar at the Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris (1991-2008). He was executive editor of The Germanic Review (1996-2002) and Chair of the Department (1996-1999).

He published 12 books, f. e. Theodor Storms Lyrik, Bonn 1975; Geschichte zwischen Kairos und Katastrophe, Frankfurt 1988; Giftpfeile, Bielefeld 1994; Gegengifte, Bielefeld 2009; Taubenfüße und Adlerkrallen, Bielefeld 2016; Ed. with Jürgen Fohrmann, Diskurstheorien und Literaturwissenschaft, Frankfurt 1988; Ed. with  Susanne Knaller, Authentizität, München 2006 ...  He published numerous articles f. e. on Adorno, Benjamin, Benn, Brecht, Büchner, Dilthey, Döblin, Foucault, George, Gibbon, Grabbe, Habermas, Horkheimer, Kleist, Kluge, Luhmann, de Man, H. Mann, H. Müller, Schuldt, Schiller, Storm, Weiss ...

His areas of teaching and research include: history of modern literature and culture from 1750 to the present; theory of literature (hermeneutics, intellectual history, critical theory, poststructuralism, deconstruction, discourse theory, systems theory, history of literary criticism).