An Evening with Wagner Scholar Nicholas Vazsonyi

Founding Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Clemson University

Ph.D. in Germanic Languages from UCLA

Vazsonyi’s research interests include composer Richard Wagner; literary figure Goethe; German national identity; Enlightenment and Romanticism; and cultural intersections in music, literature and film. He is the author of two books, more than 30 peer-reviewed articles, and conceived and edited several volumes, including “The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia” and the “Cambridge Companion to Wagner’s ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen.’”