Bernd Engler (born 21 April 1954) is a German Anglicist and literary scholar.

After his doctorate in American literature he started a postdoctoral qualification which he finished in 1989.

In 1989, Engler became a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts, United States.

After working as a visiting scholar at the University of Sussex, UK, and as an interim professor of American studies at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany, he returned to the United States.

In 1991–1992 he worked as a research fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.