David E. Wellbery

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David E. Wellbery (born 1947) is an American professor of German Studies at the University of Chicago. As of 2022 he is the chair of the department of Germanic Studies and holds the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professorship in the department. [1] In 2020 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. [2]

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Education

He received a B.A. in 1969 from Binghamton University. He studied for a year at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, then received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1977. [3]

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 Archived 2021-05-18 at the Wayback Machine , and the University of Copenhagen. In 2001, he was a faculty member of the Cornell University School for Criticism and Theory.

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Editorial work

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References

  1. "David E. Wellbery". Faculty Directory. University of Chicago. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  2. "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2020".
  3. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). University of Chicago. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  4. "David E. Wellbery". German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  5. 1 2 "David E. Wellbery". University of Chicago. Archived from the original on 18 November 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2014.