Astrida Orle Tantillo, PhD
Dean Emerita College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Germanic Studies and History
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About
Major Interests: Goethe; 18th-century literature, culture, and history of science
Selected Publications
Books
- Goethe’s Modernisms, Continuum Press, 2010
- The Will to Create: Goethe’s Philosophy of Nature. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.
- Goethe’s Elective Affinities and the Critics. Rochester: Camden House, 2001.
Articles
- “The Catholicism of Werther.” German Quarterly 81 (2008): 408-23.
- “Werther, Frankenstein, and Girardian Mediated Desire.” Studia Neophilologica 80 (2008): 133-43.
- “Damned to Heaven: The Tragedy of Faust Revisited.” Monatshefte, 99 (2007): 454-468.
- “The Subjective Eye: Goethe’s Farbenlehre and Faust” in The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture. Ed. Evelyn Moore and Patricia Simpson. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2007. 265-77.
Education
PhD, University of Chicago