Chad Wellmon

Commonwealth Professor of English and Germanic Languages & Literatures

Office Address/Hours

New Cabell Hall, Room 223 / Wednesdays 3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. and by appointment

Class Schedule

MW 2:00-3:15

European Romanticism and EnlightenmentEuropean Intellectual HistoryMedia StudiesSocial and Cultural Theory

Ph.D., German Studies, University of California, Berkeley, May 2006
B.A., Political Philosophy and German Davidson College, Spring 1999

After the University: On the Past and Future of Intellectual Work (under contract, Johns Hopkins University Press).

Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. With Paul Reitter (University of Chicago Press, 2021).

Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures. Edited with Paul Reitter (New York Review Books Classics, 2020).

Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation. With the Multigraph Collective (University of Chicago Press, 2018).

The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook. Edited with Louis Menand and Paul Reitter (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015).

Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions. Edited with Paul Reitter (New York Review Books Classics, 2015).

Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom (Penn State University Press, 2010).

For more information on Professor Wellmon, visit his personal website.