Chad Wellmon

Assistant Professor

Degrees

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Books

Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom (under review)

Organizing the World: Projects of Universal Knowledge from the Enlightenment to Google (in progress)

Publications

“Touching Books: Diderot, Novalis and the Encyclopedia of the Future,” under review at Eighteenth-Century Studies.

“Languages, Cultural Studies and the Future of Foreign Language Education,” forthcoming Summer 2008, Modern Language Journal.

“From Bildung durch Sprache to Language Ecology. The Multilingual Challenge,” with Claire Kramsch, forthcoming 2008, Münchener Arbeiten zur Fremdsprachenforschung.

“Lyrical Feeling: Novalis’ Anthropology of the Senses,” forthcoming Winter 2008, Studies in Romanticism.

“The Problem of Framing in Foreign Language Education: The Case of German,” with Claire Kramsch, Tes Howell and Chantelle Warner. Critical Inquiries in Language Studies. Fall 2007.

“Poesie as Anthropology: Schleiermacher, Colonial History and the Ethics of Ethnography,” The German Quarterly. Fall 79.4, 2006.

“Towards an Ecology of Language,” in Berkeley Language Center Newsletter 19:1, 2003.

"Competent Metaphors," in Berkeley Language Center Newsletter 18:2, 2003.

Awards

Max Kade Prize, Awarded for Best Article of the Year in the German Quarterly 2007.

University of Virginia, Educational Diversity Fellowship 2007

Social Science Research Council, Berlin Program Fellow 2005-2006 (declined)

Fulbright Scholar 2004-2005 (declined)

DAAD Fellowship 2004-2005 (declined)