Biography
Jan Hagens’ research focuses on German and comparative drama (1550 to the present), drama theory, and philosophical and theological approaches to literature. He has published on seventeenth-century Jesuit drama, dramatic genre theory, theater semiotics, German film, Nietzsche, Freud, and language pedagogy. Hagens’ teaching interests include German literature, film, and intellectual history, as well as the history and theory of Western drama. Hagens studied German literature, English literature, and Philosophy at the Universität Tübingen, Williams College, the University of Virginia, and Princeton University. He taught at Carleton College, Eckerd College, and the University of Notre Dame before joining Yale in 2010. He has won fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Templeton Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Max Kade Foundation; in 2007 he won the University of Notre Dame’s first Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He serves on the editorial board of Text and Presentation and the conference board of the Comparative Drama Conference. At Yale Divinity School, he directs YDS Summer Study, the Visiting Fellows and the Postdoctoral Fellows Programs, and all international student exchange programs (Cambridge, Oslo, Copenhagen, Heidelberg, Tübingen, Freiburg, Jerusalem, Hong Kong, and Singapore).