Dr. Martin Hägglund

Biography

Martin Hägglund is the Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. He specializes in post-Kantian philosophy, critical theory, and modernist literature. Hägglund is the author of four widely reviewed and highly acclaimed books, which have been translated into fifteen languages. His work has been the subject of multiple conferences and journal volumes, including a full-length edition of New Centennial Review and a special symposium in Los Angeles Review Books. He has lectured at various venues worldwide, with his writings featured in notable publications such as the New York Review of Books and New Statesman. Elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2009, Hägglund received the Schück Prize from the Swedish Academy in 2014 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. His recent book, 'Life,' published in 2019, won the prestigious René Wellek Prize. His teaching at Yale has involved courses examining the works of prominent philosophers and writers such as Heidegger, Proust, Woolf, Nabokov, and Aristotle. His research interests include Modernism, Phenomenology, Marx and Critical Theory, and Literary Theory, with a focus on Anglophone, French, German, and Scandinavian literatures from the 19th to 20th century.

Research Interests