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Angus Nicholls

Professor, Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture, Program in Comparative Literature Affiliate

Germanophone literature and thought circa 1770 to now, in particular: Goethe & his age; C18th-C20th thought (idealism, hermeneutics, neo-Kantianism, phenomenology, philosophical anthropology, critical theory); history of comparative literature; history of psychoanalysis; theories of myth; influence of classical antiquity on German thought; Germans in the UK (F. Max Müller); Germans in Australia (C. Strehlow, L. Leichhardt); Germans in the USA (F. Boas)