Jan-Lueder Hagens

Associate Director, College Seminar Program of the College of Arts and Letters
Associate Professional Specialist, College Seminar
Concurrent Associate Professional Specialist, Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures
Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies

Degrees

M.A., University of Virginia; Staatsexamen, Tuebingen University, Germany; Ph.D., Princeton University

Research Profile

Hagens's research deals with German and comparative drama (1550 to present), drama theory, and philosophical approaches to literature. He also teaches German language and German film, as well as College Seminars on forgiveness and reconciliation. Hagens has published articles on 17th-c. Jesuit drama, dramatic genre theory, theater semiotics, German film, Nietzsche, Freud, and language pedagogy.  Hagens's current research project, The Wounded Embrace: An Essay on the Drama of Reconciliation, examines potentially tragic plays that achieve productive resolution.

Contact Information

308 Decio Faculty Hall
631-7662
hagens.2@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~jhagens