Harro Müller

Harro Müller (born 1943) is a German literary scholar, Emeritus Professor of Germanic languages at Columbia University, a former Chair of the German department at Columbia (1996-1999), and a former executive editor of The Germanic Review (1996-2002).

Career Haro Müller received his doctorate with a focus in German studies, history, and philosophy from the University of Cologne in 1975, after which he completed his habilitation in Bielefeld in 1979. Müller joined the faculty of the German department at Columbia University in 1991 and was Chair of the Department from 1996 to 1999.

Müller replaced Inge D. Halpert as the executive editor of The Germanic Review in 1996, a position he held until 2002. Müller still serves as the senior editor at The Germanic Review, along with Andreas Huyssen. Müller was also the vice-president of the Groupe de Recherche sur la Culture de Weimar at the Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris (1991-2008).

Müller was a visiting professor at Cornell University (1982), Emory University (1987), the University of Bordeaux (1988), and at Columbia (1991).

Müller's research interests include literary history and theory, focusing on hermeneutics, deconstruction, discourse theory, critical theory, poststructuralism, systems theory, intellectual history and history of literary criticism. He has written on Adorno, Benjamin, Benn, Brecht, Büchner, Dilthey, Döblin, Foucault, George, Gibbon, Grabbe, Habermas, Horkheimer, Kleist, Kluge, Luhmann, de Man, H. Mann, H. Müller, Schuldt, Schiller, Storm and Weiss.