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Michael Jennings is Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages and Professor of German at Princeton University, with affiliations in Art and Archaeology, French and Italian, Architecture, and the Center for the Study of Religion. His scholarship focuses on 20th-century European culture, particularly critical theory, photography, and modernist literature in relation to capitalist modernity.
Jennings is the leading authority on Walter Benjamin, having authored Dialectical Images: Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Literary Criticism (1987) and co-authored the comprehensive biography Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (2014). He edited the definitive English edition of Benjamin's Selected Writings (4 volumes) and several classroom text collections including The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility (2008).
Honors include the Graduate Mentoring Award for doctoral supervision. Jennings serves as Director of the Alexander Kluge Research Collection and co-chairs the International Walter Benjamin Society. His current project is a critical biography of Alexander Kluge examining postwar German media and cultural theory.
At Princeton, Jennings served nine years as Master of Rockefeller College, thirteen years as German Department Chair, and co-chaired the University's decennial accreditation process (2011-2014).
