Barbara N. Nagel is assistant professor of German at Princeton University and author of Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond: Flirtation, Passive Aggression, Domestic Violence (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and Der Skandal des Literalen: Barocke Literalisierungen in Gryphius, Kleist, Büchner (Wilhelm Fink, 2012). She is the recipient of the Berlin Prize from the American Academy.
Barbara N. Nagel
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The Kleist We Need
Heinrich von Kleist teaches how to resist heteronormativity, as well as how to imagine gender fluidity and a less restrictive masculinity.
