David E. Wellbery

David E. Wellbery (born 1947) is an American professor of German Studies at the University of Chicago. He is currently the chair of the department of Germanic Studies and holds the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professorship in the department.[1]

Education

He received a B.A. in 1969 from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He studied for a year at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, then received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1977.[2]


Career

Wellbery began his academic career at Stanford University, where he taught between 1975 and 1990. Between 1990 and 2001, he taught at the Johns Hopkins University as the William Kurrelmeyer Professor of German. Since 2001, he has been on the faculty at the University of Chicago as Leroy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor. He holds appointments in Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature and serves on the Committee on Social Thought. He is the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture.

Recognition

In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate: Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Universität Konstanz. He has also been a guest or visiting professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Princeton University, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, and the University of Copenhagen. In 2001, he was a faculty member of the Cornell University School for Criticism and Theory.

Fellowships and awards

Books

Editions and collections

Editorial work

Articles and essays

References

  1. "David E. Wellbery". Faculty Directory. University of Chicago. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  2. "Curriculum Vitae". University of Chicago. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "David E. Wellbery". University of Chicago. Retrieved 27 February 2014.

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