David Wellbery

David Wellbery is the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor and Chair of the Department of Germanic Studies with additional appointments in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Committee on Social Thought; he is also Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture. His books are considered classics in the field of German literary history: Lessing’s ‘Laocoön’: Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason (Cambridge 2009) and The Specular Moment: Goethe’s Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism (Stanford 1996). His current projects include a book on Nietzsche’s Geburt der Tragödie as well as a broad-based study of Goethe and philosophy.