Welcome Assistant Professor Dagmara Kraus

The German department is pleased to welcome Assistant Professor Dagmara Kraus to the German department faculty. Prior to joining Princeton, Dagmara taught at universities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and was a Visiting Professor at Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig, at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, and at Schweizerisches Literaturinstitut Biel. From 2021-25, she was an Assistant Professor for Creative Writing and Literary Studies at the University of Hildesheim, one of Germany’s three schools for creative writing, where she specialized in contemporary literary processes.

A graduate of Berlin’s Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies and an Ancienne pensionnaire étrangère of the École normale supérieure, Dagmara holds a BA in Creative Writing from Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig, an MA from Université Paris 8 in Modern Literary Studies, and received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Freie Universität Berlin. Poetics of the Leap, her dissertation, was published with Urs Engeler in 2023.

Dagmara is the author of several books of poetry, including kummerang (kookbooks, 2012; translated as gloomerang, 2014), kleine grammaturgie (2013), wehbuch (2016), and liedvoll, deutschyzno (2020). She has also published numerous essays, radio pieces, and multimedial works. Her poetry has received praise for its linguistic inventiveness and interlingual play and was awarded multiple prizes, including the Erlanger Preis für Poesie als Übersetzung (2017), Basler Lyrikpreis (2018), Lyrikpreis Meran (2021) Ehrengabe der Deutschen Schillerstiftung (2021), as well as the Oskar Pastior Preis (2025).

This fall Prof. Krauss will be teaching GER 324 “The Poem as a Spell Jar: Techniques of Poetic Seduction

GER 324: Topics in Germanic Literatures: The Poem as Spell Jar: Techniques of Poetic Seduction