is Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities and director at the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature at Washington University. He was guest professor at various prominent universities in Europe and the US. His publications cover the entire modern age of German literature, from Lessing to postmodernism. Lützeler especially made his name as an expert on the life and work of Hermann Broch, of whom he edited the complete works in seventeen volumes(1974-1981). His most known critical studies on Broch are: Hermann Broch: Eine Biographie (1985), which won the DAAD Prize of the German Studies Association, and Die Entropie des Menschen. Studien zum Werk Hermann Brochs (2000). Lützeler recently published Kontinentalisierung: Das Europa der Schriftsteller (2007).