David E. Wellbery
David E. Wellbery (b. 1947) is LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor of German at the University of Chicago. He is a prominent literary critic within German Studies.
Career
Wellbery began his academic career at Stanford University, where he taught between 1975-1990. Between 1990-2001, 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 has also been a guest or visiting professor at the university of Bonn, Princeton University, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), and the University of Copenhagen.
Books
- Lessing’s Laocoön. Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason, (ISBN 0521257948) 1984
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Harzreise im Winter: Eine Deutungskontroverse, co-authored with Klaus Weimar (ISBN 3506750542) 1984
- The Specular Moment: Goethe’s Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism, (ISBN 0804726949) 1996
- Neo-retórica e desconstrução (ISBN 8585881526) 1998
- Schopenhauers Bedeutung fuer die moderne Literatur 1998
- Seiltaenzer des Paradoxalen (ISBN 3446208003) 2006
Editions/Collections
- Positionen der Literaturwissenschaft, (ISBN 3406377319) 1st ed. 1985, 2nd ed. 1987, 3rd ed. 1994, 4th ed. 2002
- Reconstructing Individualism, 1986
- Interpretation -- Discourse -- Society 1986
- Goethe, Werther etc 1989
- The Ends of Rhetoric 1990
- Chronotypes: The Construction of Time co-edited with John Bender 1991
- Traditions of Experiment" 1992
- Observation/Form/Difference 1996
- Die Bedeutung des Sehens, co-edited with Dorothea von Muecke 2001
- Kunst - Zeugung - Geburt, co-edited with Christian Begemann (ISBN 3793092747) 2002
- New History of German Literature, editor-in-chief (ISBN 0674015037) 2005
External Links
- Wellbery faculty webpage (with curriculum vitae) at University of Chicago Department of Germanic Studies[1]