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Germanic Studies
David Wellbery extensively studies Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and other renowned German authors such as Thomas Mann. This year he received the Gold Medal of the Goethe Society in Weimar, Germany, in recognition of his career-long groundbreaking scholarship on Goethe. Wellbery is the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.