Stanley Alan Corngold[1] (born 1934) is an American literary scholar.
He is an emeritus professor of German and comparative literature at Princeton University.
Having taught at the University of Maryland, Corngold entered Cornell University for his Ph.D. program, receiving his doctorate on Rousseau and Kant under the guidance of Paul de Man, Robert M. Adams,[4] and O. Matthijs Jolles.
[1] His research has focused on translating and interpreting the works of Franz Kafka,[2] and he has published widely on modern German writers and thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilhelm Dilthey, Robert Musil, among others.
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977 and a Berlin Prize in 2010, when he completed a book about Kafka's professional experience as an insurance lawyer .