Nate Wagner

Nate Wagner teaches German language courses at all levels. He earned his BA in German from UNC Chapel-Hill in 2017 and his PhD in the same from Columbia University in 2024 with a dissertation that examines emergent forms of futurity in contemporary German literature, film, and music against the backdrop of “End of History” narratives of the early 1990s and their aftermath. Nate is currently pursuing projects on Sebald, Schubert, and sampling, multilingualism in Haneke and Kaurismäki, and sport’s role in the social, political, and aesthetic formation of 20th and 21st-century German subjects. He also appears in print as a contributor to Difference and Orientation, a volume of Kluge translations edited by Richard Langston (Cornell UP/Signale, 2019).