Haro Müller received his doctorate with a focus in German studies, history, and philosophy from the University of Cologne in 1975, after which he completed his habilitation in Bielefeld in 1979.
[1] Müller replaced Inge D. Halpert as the executive editor of The Germanic Review in 1996, a position he held until 2002.
Müller still serves as the senior editor at The Germanic Review, along with Andreas Huyssen.
[3] Müller's research interests include literary history and theory, focusing on hermeneutics, deconstruction, discourse theory, critical theory, poststructuralism, systems theory,intellectual history and history of literary criticism.
He has written on Adorno, Benjamin, Benn, Brecht, Büchner, Dilthey, Döblin, Foucault, George, Gibbon, Grabbe, Habermas, Horkheimer, Kleist, Kluge, Luhmann, de Man, H. Mann, H. Müller, Schuldt, Schiller, Storm and Weiss.