Ben Morgan

I am Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Worcester College. In 2019, and 2020/21, I was also Visiting Associate Professor of German at Harvard University. I am author of On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self (Fordham UP, 2013), and numerous articles on modernist literature, film, and philosophy. I edited, with Carolin Duttlinger and Anthony Phelan, Walter Benjamins Anthropologisches Denken (Rombach, 2012), with Matthew Reynolds and Mohamed-Salah Omri a Special Issue of Comparative Critical Studies on “Comparative Criticism: Methods and Histories” (2015), and with Sowon Park and Ellen Spolsky a Special Issue of Poetics Today on “Situated Cognition and the Study of Culture” (2017).