The Society

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Mission Statement

The Goethe Society of North America 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) and his age.

As a learned society, the organization seeks to:

  • stimulate a reappraisal of the pertinence of Goethe’s thought in modern times;

  • foster scholarly lectures and symposia about Goethe and his age;

  • develop extensive research facilities for the study of eighteenth-century literature and culture; and

  • re-emphasize Goethe’s concept of world literature in terms of today’s globality of cultural discourses.

Board of Directors

President

Professor Heather Sullivan
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Trinity University
One Trinity Place
San Antonio, TX 78212
Telephone: (210) 999-7535

Vice President

Professor Heidi Schlipphacke
Department of Germanic Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan Sdt, MC 315, 1516 UH
Chicago, IL 60607
Telephone: (312) 996-0965

Executive Secretary

Professor Claire Baldwin
Department of German
Colgate University
13 Oak Drive
Hamilton, NY 13346
Telephone: (315) 228-7281

Directors-at-Large

Professor Matthew Birkhold
498 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210
Telephone: (614) 292-6985

Professor Chunjie Zhang
Department of German and Russian
One Shields Ave
University of California Davis
Davis, CA 95616
Telephone: (530) 754-2803

Secretary-Treasurer

Professor William Carter
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Iowa State University
3102 Pearson Hall
Ames, IA 50011
Telephone: (515) 294-1610

Editors of the Goethe Yearbook

Professor Sarah Eldridge
718 McClung Tower
1115 Volunteer Blvd.
Knoxville, TN 37996-0470
Telephone: (865) 974-9758

Professor Eleanor Ter Horst
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature
University of South Alabama
322 HUMB, 5991 USA Drive, N
Mobile, AL 36688
Telephone: (251) 461-1527

Book Review Editor

Professor Joseph D. O’Neil
Department of GRAMELAC
Miami University
Irvin Hall 170
400 E. Spring St.
Oxford, OH 45056
Telephone: (513) 529-2514
oneiljd[at]miamioh.edu

Editor of the Book Series

Professor John Lyon
Chair, School of Modern Languages
Professor and Charles Smithgall Jr. Institute Chair
Georgia Tech
613 Cherry St. NW
Atlanta, GA 30332-0375
jlyon3[at]gatech.edu

Editor of the Newsletter

Professor Burkhard Henke
German Studies Department
Davidson College
209 Ridge Road
Box 5000
Davidson, NC 28035
buhenke[at]davidson.edu