Inka Mülder-Bach

Inka Mülder-Bach is a Visiting Professor and Emerita scholar at Princeton University, with expertise in German and Comparative Literature. Her research focuses on 18th-20th century German literature, particularly Robert Musil's works, genre theory, and aesthetic philosophy.

Research domains include:

• Narrative forms and novelistic experimentation
• Cultural theory and representation
• Interdisciplinary approaches to textuality
• Modernist literary innovations

Her monograph on Musil's The Man Without Qualities offers groundbreaking analysis of the novel's structure. Mülder-Bach has led multiple collaborative projects including 'Mimesis' and 'Philology of Adventure' while editing Siegfried Kracauer's collected works.

Honors:

• Federal Cross of Merit for scholarly contributions
• LMU Excellence-in-Research professorship