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The Goethe Society of North America (GSNA) was founded in December
1979 in San Francisco as a non-profit organization dedicated to the
encouragement of research on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832; pronunciation
here) and his age. The impact of the work of the Goethe Society
of North America is considerable and demonstrates that in its relatively
brief career it has already become a major forum for constructive research
within the international community of scholars of the Eighteenth and
Early Nineteenth Century.
Since 1982 the Goethe Society of North America has published the Goethe
Yearbook, which has become a respected organ of eighteenth-century
studies in diverse disciplines and which is recognized as a vital compendium
of current research in its articles and its extensive review section.
The Goethe Yearbook is distributed free to all paid-up members
of the GSNA—see [Membership] on
how to become a member.
Since 2006 the Goethe Society has been sponsoring a new book series that will be published by Bucknell University Press. The goal of this series is to publish innovative research that contextualizes the "Age of Goethe," whether within the fields of literature, history (including art history and history of science), philosophy, art, music, or politics.
In 2008, the Society organized its first major international conference, entitled Goethe and the Postclassical: Literature, Science, Art, and Philosophy 1805-1815.
The Goethe Society of North America has allied organization status
with the Modern Language
Association (MLA) and the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS). The Society has
also arranged to hold Southern California meetings at the William Andrews
Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles in cooperation with the UCLA Center
for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies. Thanks to its growing membership
and the continued financial support of such institutions as the German
Department at the University of California, Irvine, the Society is
looking forward to a productive future.
The current edition of Goethe News and Notes (Fall 2008) is available as Flash Paper here and as a pdf file here. For previous editions click here.
In honor of the 25th anniversary of its founding, the Goethe Society of North America has created a bibliography of monographs on Goethe or his age published by its members (1970-2005). This is a work in progress. If you would like to add to the list, please send the bibliographic information (books only) to Ms. Rie Sumitani. If you have any questions about this project, contact Astrida Tantillo.
The Society maintains a listserv, goethe-l@davidson.edu,
to help facilitate the exchange of ideas among its members. To subscribe, or unsubscribe,
please contact the webmaster@goethesociety.org.
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