Rate My Professor Norbert Christian Wolf

Wolf's professional trajectory includes research assistant roles at the University of Vienna (1994–1995, on an FWF project on cultural processes in monastic literature) and Free University of Berlin (1998–2004), an APART fellowship in Vienna (2004), junior professorship in Modern German Literature and Literary Theory at FU Berlin (2005–2009), and University Professor at the University of Salzburg (2009–2020). Among his major publications are Streitbare Ästhetik: Goethes kunst- und literaturtheoretische Schriften 1771–1789 (Niemeyer, 2001), Kakanien als Gesellschaftskonstruktion: Robert Musils Sozioanalyse des 20. Jahrhunderts (Böhlau, 2011), Eine Triumphpforte österreichischer Kunst: Hugo von Hofmannsthals Gründung der Salzburger Festspiele (Jung und Jung, 2014), Revolution in Wien: Die literarische Intelligenz im politischen Umbruch 1918/19 (Böhlau, 2018), and Glanz und Elend der Aufklärung in Wien: Voraussetzungen – Institutionen – Texte (Böhlau, 2023). Recent contributions include articles on Europe-conceptions in interwar Austrian literature (2021), the media history of ephemerality (2021), polemics in classical modernism (2022), and hybrid identities in Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (2024). His work advances insights into literature's engagement with historical, social, and political transformations in German and Austrian contexts.