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Photo courtesy Agnes Mueller

Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina

Carol Kahn Strauss Fellow in Jewish Studies - Class of Spring 2025


Agnes Mueller is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina; she is also core faculty of USC’s Program in Jewish Studies and affiliated faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies. Mueller holds an MA in German and comparative literature from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, in Munich, and a PhD in German literature from Vanderbilt University. She has published extensively on topics related to Holocaust memory, German Jewish history and culture, German-American relations, and gender in contemporary German literature. Mueller is the author of The Inability to Love: Jews, Gender, and America in Recent German Literature (Northwestern, 2015), available in German translation as Die Unfähigkeit zu lieben: Juden und Antisemitismus in der Gegenwartsliteratur (Königshausen und Neumann, 2017); and German Jewish Literature after 1990 (Camden House, 2018), co-edited with Katja Garloff. At the University of South Carolina, she served as founding director of the Program in Global Studies. Prior to USC, Mueller taught at the University of Georgia and Vanderbilt University. She has served on the editorial board of German Quarterly and is currently on the editorial board of Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies.

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