Phone:(413)585-3401
Email:hvaget@email.smith.edu
Office: Pierce 002
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Hans Rudolf Vaget (born 1938 in Marienbad, Czechoslovakia)
has been teaching at Smith College since 1967. He received
his academic training at the universities of Munich
and Tübingen, the University of Wales, Cardiff,
and Columbia University, New York. He has published
widely in the field of German Studies from the 18th
century to the present, focusing on Goethe, Wagner,
and Thomas Mann as well as music history and film. Aside
from Smith, he has taught at the University of California
- Irvine, at Yale, Columbia, Princeton, the University
of Hamburg, and the Summer School at Middlebury College.
He is the co-founder of the Goethe Society of North
America, and he was awarded, in 1994, the Thomas-Mann-Medaille
for his edition of the correspondence of Thomas Mann
and his American friend and patron Agnes B. Meyer (Frankfurt/Main:
S. Fischer Verlag, 1992; 1170pp.). He is also one of
the chief editors of the new edition of the works, letters,
and diaries of Thomas Mann. |
