Gordon Stewart
Professor and Associate Dean, College of Arts and SciencesDegrees
Ph.D., German, The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD), 1971
University of Hamburg (1968-69)
M.A., German, The Johns Hopkins University, 1966
B.A., German, Union College, 1965
University of Freiburg, 1963-64
Interests
German American literary and cultural relations, German cultural history, Age of Goethe
Recent Courses
- Berlin in German Life and Letters (GETR 2770)
- Faust in Translation (GETR 2400)
- German Culture 1900-1945
- Germany Today (GETR 2000)
- Goethe in Translation
- Readings in Mediterranean Literature (USEM 1580)
- A Tale of Two Cities: Berlin and Munich (GETR 2559)
- 20th Century German Literature
Publications
The Literary Contributions of Christoph Daniel Ebeling, Amsterdam: Editions RODOPI, 1978
“Christoph Daniel Ebeling, Hamburger Pädagoge und seine Briefe an Charles Burney,” Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hamburgische Geschichte, 61(1975), 33-58.
“Christoph Daniel Ebeling: American’s Friend in Eighteenth-Century Germany,” Monatshefte, 68(1976) 151-161
“Eighteenth-Century German Literature and Central Virginia: The Hessian Connection,” Longwood College Colloquium (Farmville, VA, 1978)
“Johann Diederich Gries und Jena’s Gesellschaft der Freien Männer,” Colloquia Germanica, 4(1979), 347-356.
“Johann Diederich Gries nimmt Abschied von Hamburg: ein autobiographischer Bericht,” Jahrbuch des Freien Deutschen Hochstifts, 1977, 150-168.
Awards, Grants, and Honors
Chester A. Titus Award (Residence Life), 1997
Z Society Distinguished Faculty Award, 1990
Raven Society, 1990
UVa Faculty Research Fellowships, 1974 and 1975
Summer Research Fellowships, DAAD, 1973, 1977, and 1985
DAAD- German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship (Hamburg), 1968-1969