Professor
David E. Wellbery
University of Chicago
Literary and language scholar; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2009
Leroy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor. Author of numerous articles and books on German literature, aesthetics and literary theory, the most important being Lessing's Laocoon; Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason (1984) and The Specular Moment: Goethe's Lyric and the Beginning of Romanticism (1996). Was the editor-in-chief of A New History of German Literature (2005).
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