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GOETHE NEWS
                                                              AND NOTES
                                                                        XLII.2, Fall 2022

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                                                                  Burkhard Henke, Editor
 goethesociety.org
                                                                       Davidson College

FROM THE EDITOR                               FROM THE PRESIDENT
Fresh back from the GSA conference in         Just returning from the GSA in Houston,
Houston, some of us are already looking       I am still reveling in the afterglow of
ahead to the MLA and ASECS                    vibrant discussions and exchanges with
conventions, where the Goethe Society         the Goethe Society members, panels, and
will sponsor more panels. You can find        events as well as with many groups across
panel information for all three of these      the conference more broadly. From what
conferences below. Other items of note in     I could see during my somewhat shorter
this number of the newsletter include the     time in Houston due to attending another
president’s column, citations for this        conference earlier, this was a successful
year’s essay awards, the inaugural            and invigorating meeting with a lot of
column of the new editors of the Goethe       new directions and energy. As a resident
Yearbook, Sarah Eldridge and Eleanor          of Texas, I believe I speak for many when
Ter Horst (who, like all of us, express       I say it is really encouraging to see our
their gratitude to their predecessors,        colleagues’ support for those of us living
Patricia Anne Simpson and Birgit Tautz)       and working in Southern states during
as well as an update from the editor of the   these times of divisive politics. In this
book series.                                  light, I am delighted to share with you the
                                              plan for our next Atkins Conference of
There is so much good work being done!        the GSNA that will be held in November
We hope you will continue to support the      2024 in my own city of San Antonio,
Goethe Society in the future. You can do      Texas. The topic will be “Goethe’s
so in any number of ways: by organizing       Welt/Welten (world/worlds)”; look for
panels, by submitting an essay to the         the full call for proposals in the next
Goethe Yearbook, by submitting your           newsletter in spring and in an email
manuscript to the book series, by             coming soon. I hope to see you all here!
becoming a patron of the society, perhaps
even a lifetime patron. We appreciate all     As part of my column, I would like to take
support.                                      this opportunity to thank again our
                                              amazing outgoing editors of the Goethe
                         Burkhard Henke       Yearbook, Birgit Tautz and Patty
                        Davidson College      Simpson. Their collaboration and editing
savvy brought us many exceptional                  terrible drought in Europe with brown
volumes. Look for their final volume for           landscapes, sickly plants, smoke from
2022 coming out soon. I know our new               nearby fires, and concern about energy.
editors, Sarah Eldridge and Eleanor ter            One thing that was missing from the
Horst, are already working on gathering            conference for the most part (other than a
essays for next year’s volume, one which           few of us), however, were scholars
looks like it, too, will be fascinating.           working on texts and culture of the
                                                   eighteenth and nineteenth centuries or
Additional news that I bring is from               earlier. We need more analysis from
Weimar, where I travelled in May this              colleagues     studying    concepts      of
year with members of the Goethe                    world/nature/science/industry/energy
Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts                  (Umwelt) and the human-non-human
(GLPC) to participate in the “Goethe               relationships during the beginning of the
in/and America Tagung” held at the                 massive industrial expansion that has led
Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv, Klassik               us to our current situation of climate
Stiftung Weimar. Our colleagues from               change. Many ecocritics logically focus
Weimar presented a wide array of papers            on contemporary texts at the time when
on the reception of Goethe in the past two         we are aware of the impact of extractive
hundred years in North America while               activities on the world, but broader
our esteemed GLPC colleagues presented             perspectives are relevant to offer insights
some of their most recent concepts as              into the long process of getting to where
well as an introduction to the project; that       we are now. Of course, I hardly need to
is, current and active responses to Goethe         emphasize the need for more work in the
taking place right now in North America.           eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the
The members of the GSNA, in other                  members of the GSNA. I hope therefore
words, continue to make an impact with             to see more of you considering such
such important work as the GLPC; after             ecological and environmental questions
their impressive presentations, I foresee          and joining us at future EASLCE
significant collaborations with our                conferences (in Perpignan in 2025!), and
German collogues. It was an honor to join          to see more of you participating on
the GLPC in Weimar and to see future               related panels at future GSA meetings
plans emerge, inspired by their work.              and our own next conference on Goethe’s
                                                   Worlds. Consider joining me also at the
Finally, I also have news from Granada,            upcoming summer 2023 American
Spain, where I met with European                   conference in Portland, “Re-Claiming the
ecocritics at the triannual conference of          Commons”, put on by ASLE (the
the European Association for the Study of          Association for the Study of Literature
Literature, Culture, and Environment               and the Environment), another excellent
(EASLCE) just before the GSA. It was               gathering of scholars that tends to be
another important conference addressing            dominated by a focus on the most recent
the non-human, transcreations, and                 texts. Let’s continue to challenge the
climate change (etc.) in literature and            presentism of such work. (Send me an
culture at a time when we see massive              email with your ideas or questions!)
droughts, fires, hurricane flooding, and
devastation across the world. All around                                  Heather I. Sullivan
beautiful Granada were signs of the                                       Trinity University

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FROM THE EXECUTIVE                              Herder’s “Fragmente über die neuere
SECRETARY                                       deutsche Literatur”
                                             c) Sophie Salvo, “Gendered Origins:
There were six panels sponsored by the          Inventing the Invention of Language
GSNA at the German Studies Association          in the Late Eighteenth Century”
Conference in Houston, TX, September
15-18, 2022:                                 2. Identity and Feelings between
                                             Universalism and Relativism
“Techniques and Innovations in the           Claire Baldwin, Moderator. Elliot
Novel around 1800”                           Schreiber, Commentator.
Margaretmary Daley, Organizer and
Moderator. Christopher Chiasson,             a) Chloe Vaughn, “Der Genius der
Commentator.                                    Sprache”: The Linguistic
                                                Constitution of Herder’s
a) Clemens Kafka, “Novel Experiments            Volksbegriff”
   in the Eighteenth-Century                 b) Nina Rastinger, “Alternating
   Enlightened and Multilingual                 between Antiqua and Fraktur in
   Prague”                                      Early Modern Newspapers. What the
b) Sigmund Jakob-Michael Stephan,               Study of a Typographical Practice
   “The Birth of Early Romanticism              can tell us about Concepts of
   from Incurable Schwärmerei”                  Language in the Long Eighteenth
c) Francien Markx, “Feline Fantasies            Century”
   and Compositional Craft:                  c) Dirk Weissmann, “Between
   Configurations of Genre and Media            Universalism and Relativism. On
   in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Kater Murr”             Goethe’s Conception of Language”
d) Nathan Drapela, “The Novelty of           d) Margaret Strair, “Tacility, Feeling
   Well-Trodden Paths: Adalbert                 and Semiosis: Herder between the
   Stifter’s Die Mappe meines                   Enlightenment and Early
   Urgroßvaters”                                Romanticism”

“Concepts of Language in the Long            “Manuscript Cultures in the Age of
18th Century”                                Books”
Jan Jost-Fritz, Organizer                    May Mergenthaler and Dennis Schäfer,
                                             Organizers
1. Aesthetics, Gender and Origins
Dennis Schäfer, Moderator. Tove              1. Interactions of Manuscript and Print
Holmes, Commentator.                         Caroline Jessen, Moderator and
                                             Commentator
a) Jan Oliver Jost-Fritz, “Affecting
   Words. Charging Language with             a) Helga Muellneritsch, “Parallels of
   Energy in the Long 18th Century”             Manuscript and Print in Eighteenth-
b) Oliver Roughton, “The                        century Cookery Books”
   Anthropological and Aesthetic             b) Alexander Weinstock, “Handwritten
   Importance of Non-Cognitive                  Theater. Promptbooks from the Late
   Language in Johann Gottfried

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Eighteenth Century (Kotzebue,                Upcoming Conferences
   Schiller, Shakespeare)”
c) Daniel Ehrmann, “The Use of                  Modern Language Association
   Letters. Hierarchy and Topology in           Conference, January 5-8, 2023, San
   Collective Writings around Friedrich         Francisco
   Schlegel”
d) Maximilian Kloppert, “Das Drama              The GSNA will sponsor a panel at the
   um die Handschrift. Schiller 1782 -          MLA 2023 under the title ”Goethe by the
   1856”                                        Numbers,” organized by Matt Erlin. This
                                                panel aims to explore how computational,
2. Constructing Authors and Literary            statistical, and empirical approaches can
Traditions                                      enhance our understanding of the work of
Alexander Weinstock, Moderator. May             Goethe and his contemporaries as well as
Mergenthaler, Commentator.                      situate them in their historical and
                                                cultural contexts.
a) Giulia Baldelli, “The making of
   Jacob Böhme? Reflections on                  a) Thorsten Ries, “Authorship
   Material Representation and                     Verification/ Attribution: Goethe’s
   Authorship in an Early Modern                   Contributions to the Frankfurter
   Case”                                           gelehrte Anzeigen”
b) Martin Baeumel, “Function and                b) Stefan Höppner and Ulrike
   Material Presentation: The Case of              Trenkmann, “Reading by the
   Canitz”                                         Numbers: What Quantitative
c) Caroline Jessen, “The Temporality               Analysis and Visualizations Tell Us
   of Manuscripts and Archival Politics.           about Goethe’s Library”
   Collecting and editing Novalis”              c) Mesian Tilmatine, “Understanding
                                                   Goethe’s Mélange of Narrative
3. Practices of Collecting, Printing, and          Poetry”
Copying
Giulia Baldelli, Moderator. Martin
Baeumel, Commentator.                           American Society for Eighteenth-
                                                Century Studies, March 9-11, 2023,
a) Hannah Hunter-Parker, “Vanishing             St. Louis
   with a Trace: Medieval Manuscripts
   in the Age of Lithography”                   There are two GSNA-sponsored panels at
b) Stefan Hoeppner, “From Book                  the 2023 ASECS Conference in St. Louis,
   Manuscript to Autograph and Back?            March 9-11 2023. ASECS has extended
   Handwritten Texts in Goethe’s                the paper proposal deadline to October
   Library”                                     24. All proposals must be submitted
c) Helene Kraus, “Abstract: Anonymity           through the ASECS submission website.
   of Books”
d) Dennis Schäfer, “From Print to               I. Session no. 70, “Musical Responses to
   Script: The Scales of Handwriting”           Goethe’s Works: Texts, Contexts,
                                                Genres,” organized by Tekla Babyak
                                                (tbb8@cornell.edu) and sponsored by
                                                the GSNA

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II. Session no. 47, “Gambling in the Age         FROM THE EDITOR
of Goethe”                                       OF THE BOKS SERIES
Organized by Waltraud Maierhofer,
University of Iowa (waltraud-                    The book series is doing well thanks to
maierhofer@uiowa.edu) and William                your interest and contributions. We
Carter, Iowa State University                    would like to grow even stronger, though,
(wcarter@iastate.edu) and sponsored by           and to do so, we need your help in two
the GSNA.                                        ways.

                                                 First, please support the series by
Future Panel Proposals                           purchasing our books yourself and asking
                                                 your library to acquire them. All GSNA
Please consider organizing GSNA panels           members receive a 40% discount with the
for upcoming conferences! Queries or             code BUPSOCIETY. Some current
panel proposals with a title and brief           books you should add to your collection:
description that could serve as a Call for
Papers should be sent by email to the            Daniel Di Massa’s Dante in Deutschland:
Executive Secretary, Claire Baldwin              An Itinerary of Romantic Myth was just
(cmbaldwin@colgate.edu) by the dates             published. It is a beautifully written, well-
below and will be reviewed by the GSNA           researched volume.
Board.
                                                 Scheduled for December/January is
                                                 another important contribution to our
Deadlines                                        field,   Heidi    Schlipphacke’s   The
                                                 Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family
November 15, 2022 for the GSA                    in the Long Eighteenth Century. This is
conference, October 5-8, 2023 in                 likewise a well-researched, insightful
Montreal, QC                                     study.
December 1, 2022 for the MLA
                                                 Congratulations to both Daniel and
conference January 4-7, 2024 in
                                                 Heidi!
Philadelphia, PA
                                                 Second, we would welcome more authors
March 15, 2023 for the ASECS
                                                 and submissions. At the recent GSA
conference, April 4-7, 2024 in Toronto,
                                                 conference, I spoke with a number of
ON
                                                 prospective authors with intriguing
                                                 projects; based on those conversations I
                                                 sense that our line has a promising future.
                         Claire Baldwin
                                                 I look forward to their contributions, but
                      Colgate University
                                                 also hope that you will consider
                                                 contributing. If you have a monograph in
                                                 the works, are interested in proposing an
                                                 edited volume of essays, or simply have
                   ***
                                                 the beginnings of an idea for a
                                                 publication, please reach out to me at
                                                 jblyon@pitt.edu. All inquiries are

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welcome. All books are peer-reviewed             sections, and new forms and genres of
and appear simultaneously in cloth and           scholarly writing are appreciated. We
paperback editions. No subventions are           particularly     encourage       women,
required. After the 40%-member                   underrepresented minorities, junior
discount, your GSNA friends and                  scholars, and contingent faculty scholars
colleagues can purchase and read your            to submit pieces. The submission
book for only $24! Please spread the             deadline is January 15, 2023. Please see
word and encourage colleagues to submit          the      Yearbook’s       website      at
to the series.                                   https://www.goethesociety.org/yearbook
                                                 for more information on preparing and
                              John Lyon          submitting manuscripts.
                 University of Pittsburgh
                                                                          Sarah Eldridge
                                                      University of Tennessee, Knoxville
                   ***
                                                                        Eleanor Ter Horst
                                                             University of South Alabama
FROM THE YEARBOOK
EDITORS
                                                                    ***
Eleanor ter Horst (University of South
Alabama) and Sarah Eldridge (University          2021 PRIZES
of Tennessee-Knoxville) are the new
editors of the Goethe Yearbook. We               2021 GSNA Essay Prize
would like to thank the previous editorial
team, Patricia Simpson and Birgit Tautz,         Stefan Höppner and Ulrike Trenkmann,
for their enthusiastic encouragement and         “World on a Shelf: Submissions of
assistance with the transition. We also          Weltliteratur in Goethe’s Private Library
recognize Sean Franzel’s excellent work          - A Quantitative Approach,” PEGS 19.1
as book review editor and we are excited         (2021): 13-30.
to announce the new book review editor,
Joseph O’Neil (Miami University), who            In their essay “World on a Shelf:
brings to the role a wealth of editorial         Submissions of Weltliteratur in Goethe’s
experience.                                      Private Library,” Stefan Höppner and
                                                 Ulrike      Trenkmann       present    the
The production of volume 30 is well              groundwork for a potential paradigm shift
underway, and we are excited to be               in how we understand Goethe’s
accepting submissions for our first              conception of “Weltliteratur.” Goethe’s
volume as editors, volume 31. Please             notion of “world literature” was a product
send us your manuscripts! We welcome             of a “vibrant communication” (14)
manuscripts on any and all aspects of            between a variety of actors who created
Goethe, his contemporaries, and the 18th         together an “intellectual commerce” via
century broadly conceived, including the         letters, reviews, manuscripts, books, and
century’s legacy in later epochs.                personal meetings. Höppner and
Comparative and/or interdisciplinary             Trenkmann point out that books play the
approaches, proposals for special                most fundamental role in this exchange of

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ideas, and Goethe received a great deal of       submissions in order to show the
books over the course of his life from           locations from which non-German
authors, translators, editors, and others        literature was sent to Goethe. They reveal
hoping for Goethe’s stamp of approval            that very few volumes were sent from
that might lead to literary success.             outside of the area of the Holy Roman
                                                 Empire, and later the German
In order to gain a better picture of the         Confederation. Notable exceptions were
ways in which the “material exchange of          the expected ones: London, Paris, and
books” helped shape Goethe’s notion of           Milan.
world literature, Höppner and Trenkmann
took an inventory of as broad a selection        The authors conclude with a number of
as possible of books submitted to Goethe,        compelling trends they have uncovered.
primarily between 1800 and 1832, that            For instance, intellectual commerce
might fall into the category of “world           between Goethe and others was largely a
literature” – foreign literature and             domestic affair, “even when it concerned
German works translated into foreign             world literature.” And direct contact
languages. This macroanalysis (the               between Goethe and other authors was
authors cite Franco Moretti’s “distant           rare when it came to foreign literature and
reading” methodology here) was                   German literature in translation. These
conducted by the authors in connection           fascinating findings simultaneously open
with the Goethe Bibliothek Online (GBO)          up and limit our picture of Goethe’s
project, “a digital catalogue that               conception of “world literature,” charting
comprises both Goethe’s personal library         potentially new paths for future research
and his borrowings from the ducal library        on Goethe and the non-Germanic world.
in Weimar.” The authors give a clear
picture of their painstaking efforts to
catalogue the transcultural nature of            2021 Richard Sussman Essay Prize in
Goethe’s book holdings. Indeed, they             Science
trace both spatially and temporally the
limits of “worldliness” of Goethe’s              Nicolaas Rupke, “Humboldt and
literary commerce.                               Metabiography,” German Life and
                                                 Letters 74.3 (2021): 416-38.
One of the many important findings from
this research is that Goethe was                 In    his    article   “Humboldt       and
frequently not communicating directly            Metabiography”        Nicolaas      Rupke
with foreign authors but instead with            sketches out the ways in which Alexander
translators and other intermediary               von Humboldt has been reinvented via a
figures.    This     complicates      our        variety of “avatars” over the course of the
understanding of the global international        “nearly 200-year tradition of Humboldt
exchange between Goethe and non-                 biography.” In highlighting a number of
German authors. As Höppner and                   Humboldt’s significant contributions to
Trenkmann put it, “‘direct intellectual          science, Rupke shows how we have
commerce’ between Goethe and others              moved through a plethora of narratives
was the exception rather than the rule”          about Humboldt to arrive at our current
when it came to world literature. Höppner        “Green Humboldt” who speaks to our
and Trenkmann then map book

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“contemporary anxieties about climate             Rupke writes, this does not mean that
change and environmental degradation.”            “anything goes” in historical biography,
                                                  but it does suggest that the biography of
Rather than taking sides vis-à-vis the            the scientist does not signify any more
plethora of historical narratives about           “factually” than the biography of any
Humboldt’s contribution to science,               other historical figure.
Rupke shows, via a metabiographical
frame, how the figure of Humboldt has
become a cipher for diverse cultural                                ***
concerns within and outside of Germany.
As Rupke writes, “Thurs, the literature           FROM THE SECRETARY-
about Humboldt reveals a striking
                                                  TREASURER
plasticity of the historical record in the
form of a plurality of differing and in
                                                  Minutes of the Business Meeting
some instances opposing representations
                                                  Saturday September 17, 2022
of him, each expressive of the interests of
                                                  German Studies Association
biographers in a particular world of
                                                  Conference in Houston, Texas
German political history.” For instance,
German nationalists have frequently
                                                  Board Members in Attendance:
downplayed or ignored Humboldt’s
                                                  Heather Sullivan (President), Claire
travels and French-language writings,
                                                  Baldwin (Executive Secretary), Bill
thereby Germanizing and nationalizing
                                                  Carter (Secretary- Treasurer), Eleanor
him avant la lettre. The national hero
                                                  Ter Horst Goethe Yearbook Editor), John
Humboldt has served as a “forum for
                                                  Lyon (Book Series Editor, New Studies in
defining     significant     aspects     of
                                                  the Age of Goethe), Chunjie Zhang
Germanness, enabling Germans to deal
                                                  (Director-At-Large)
with national ambitions, shortcomings,
guilt complexes and the like.” Rupke
                                                  Board Members unable to attend:
likewise shows how the British and
                                                  Heidi Schlipphacke (Vice President),
French have utilized Humboldt for their
                                                  Burkhard Henke (Newsletter Editor),
own national ends, even charting the
                                                  Sarah Eldridge (Goethe Yearbook
length of reviews of Humboldt’s books in
                                                  Editor), Sean Franzel (Goethe Yearbook
British, French, and German periodicals
                                                  Book Review Editor), Matthew Birkhold
(the English wrote the most about
                                                  (Director-At-Large)
Humboldt!). Indeed, as Rupke points out,
Humboldt was celebrated in Equador in
                                                  I. Reports from GSNA Officers
2019 with the slogan: “We not only have
one Humboldt, but many.”
                                                  1. President’s Report: Heather
                                                  Sullivan
Particularly refreshing is that Rupke
engages in debates about the writing of
                                                     a) Preparations for the Atkins 2024
the history of science with a truly open
                                                        “Goethes Welt/en” conference,
mind, arguing that the diverse Humboldt
                                                        hosted by Trinity University in
representations in biographies are
                                                        San Antonio, are underway.
generally equally valid and “based on
                                                     b) The sub-committee on supporting
sound biographical scholarship.” As
                                                        research groups in new ways

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(Heidi     Schlipphacke,      Matt       be on “Goethe by the Numbers,”
      Birkhold, Chunjie Zhang, Sean            organized by Matt Erlin. This panel aims
      Franzel) is considering regional         to explore how computational, statistical,
      symposia or other innovative             and empirical approaches can enhance
      forms of scholarly collaboration         our understanding of the work of Goethe
      and ways the Goethe Society can          and his contemporaries as well as situate
      support them. Suggestions are            them in their historical and cultural
      welcome!                                 contexts. Paper authors are: Thorsten
   c) The GSNA mourns the death of             Ries on “Authorship Verification/
      Bob Tobin and we intend to               Attribution”; Stefan Höppner and Ulrike
      commemorate him as a society in          Trenkmann on “Reading by the
      future venues such as conference         Numbers”; and Mesian Tilmatine on
      panels in recognition of his work.       “Understanding Goethe’s mélange of
                                               Narrative Poetry”.
2. Executive Secretary’s Report: Claire
Baldwin                                        There are 2 GSNA-sponsored panels at
                                               the 2023 ASECS Conference in St. Louis,
The GNSA sponsored a total of 6 panels         March 9-11 2023. ASECS has extended
in 3 rubrics at this year’s GSA. These         the paper proposal deadline to October
were:                                          24. All proposals are to be submitted
                                               through the ASECS submission website.
  I.Techniques and Innovations in the
    Novel around 1800, organized by               a) Session no. 70, “Musical
    Margaretmary Daley                               Responses to Goethe’s Works:
                                                     Texts, Contexts, Genres,”
 II.Concepts of Language in the Long                 organized and chaired by Tekla
    18th Century (2 panels), organized               Babyak (tbb8@cornell.edu) and
    by Jan Jost-Fritz                                sponsored by the GSNA
                                                  b) Session no. 47, “Gambling in the
   a) Aesthetics, Gender and Origins                 Age of Goethe,” organized by
   b) Identity and Feelings between                  Waltraud Maierhofer, University
      Universalism and Relativism                    of Iowa (waltraud-
                                                     maierhofer@uiowa.edu) and
III.Manuscript Cultures in the Age of                William Carter, Iowa State
    Books (3 panels), organized by May               University (wcarter@iastate.edu)
    Mergenthaler and Dennis Schäfer.                 and sponsored by the GSNA.

   a) Interactions of Manuscript and           Please consider organizing GSNA panels
      Print                                    for upcoming conferences! Panel
   b) Constructing Authors and                 Proposals should be sent by email to
      Literary Traditions                      cmbaldwin@colgate.edu by the dates
   c) Practices of Collecting, Printing,       below, and will be reviewed by the
      and Copying                              Board.

The GSNA-sponsored panel at the MLA
2023, January 5-8 in San Francisco, will

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3. Secretary-Treasurer’s Report                  2. Book Series Editor’s Report, New
                                                    Studies in the Age of Goethe: John
William Carter reported that the Goethe             Lyon promoted the book series and
Society currently has 173 members,                  encouraged submissions.
including 15 life members, and 27 student
members. He announced that the Goethe            3. Book Drawing: 4 volumes from the
Society will start a new graduate student           New Studies series were shared with
network. The finances are sound, and the            the lucky winners from the book
board looks forward to supporting new               drawing.
initiatives.

                                                 IV. Other Business: none
II. GSNA Essay Prize Announcements

Chunjie Zhang announced that the
winners of the 2022 Essay Prize were                                ***
Stefan Höppner and Ulrike Trenkmann
for “World on a Shelf: Submissions of
Weltliteratur in Goethe’s Private Library        FROM THE SECRETARY-
- A Quantitative Approach,” PEGS 19.1
                                                 TREASURER
(2021): 13-30.
                                                 If you have not yet paid 2022 dues, please
Nicolaas Rupke was awarded the 2022
                                                 renew your membership before the end of
Richard Sussman Prize for “Humboldt
                                                 the year. Current members should have
and Metabiography,” German Life and
                                                 received email reminders from me. The
Letters 74.3 (2021): 416-38.
                                                 2022 membership comes with the Goethe
                                                 Yearbook 30 (Spring 2023).
III. Reports on Publications
                                                 When renewing please consider the
                                                 discounted    three-year    membership
1. Goethe Yearbook Editors’ Report:
                                                 options in all categories as well as
   Eleanor Ter Horst reported that she
                                                 Lifetime ($500) and Lifetime Patron
   and Sarah Eldridge have begun as
                                                 ($1,500) memberships. To pay for the
   Goethe Yearbook editors. They
                                                 membership level that’s right for you, we
   thanked outgoing editors Patty
                                                 encourage you to visit our website at
   Simpson and Birgit Tautz as well as           www.goethesociety.org/membership.
   Book Review Editor Sean Franzel for
                                                 Use the drop-down menu to select a
   their work and their support in               membership category, then click the Pay
   making the transition to the new              Now button. You do not need a PayPal
   editorship. Their first volume will be        account. You may use the secure PayPal
   the 2023 edition. Joe O’Neill will be         Guest Checkout and enter your credit
   taking over from Sean Franzel as              card information there.
   Book Review Editor, beginning Jan.
   2023.                                         Of course, we still accept checks, payable
                                                 to “Goethe Society of North America.”
                                                 They can be mailed to: William Carter,

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World Languages and Cultures, Iowa                   GSNA OFFICERS
State University, 505 Morrill Road, 3102
Pearson Hall, Ames, IA 50011.                        President

Should you have a change of mailing or                  Professor Heather Sullivan
email address or a question about the                   Department of Modern Languages and
                                                        Literatures
status of your membership, please let me                Trinity University
know: wcarter@iastate.edu.                              One Trinity Place
                                                        San Antonio, TX 78212
Finally, if you are interested in planned               Telephone: (210) 999-7535
giving and wish to support the mission of               hsulliva@trinity.edu
the Goethe Society of North America
with a bequest or other substantial                  Vice President
contribution,    please     contact   the
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recognized by the Internal Revenue                      Department of Germanic Studies
Service as a 501 (c)(3).                                University of Illinois at Chicago
                                                        601 S. Morgan Sdt, MC 315, 1516 UH
                                                        Chicago, IL 60607
                              William Carter            Telephone: (312) 996-0965
                        Iowa State University           heidis@uic.edu

                        ***                          Executive Secretary

                                                        Professor Claire Baldwin
DUES                                                    Department of German
                                                        Colgate University
                                                        13 Oak Drive
                                                        Hamilton, NY 13346
junior member                            $25            Telephone: (315) 228-7281
(non-tenured faculty)                                   cmbaldwin@colgate.edu
senior member                            $35
(tenured faculty)
patron                                  $100
                                                     Directors-at-Large
(please consider becoming a patron)
                                                        Professor Matthew Birkhold
emeritus                                 $10            498 Hagerty Hall
student                                  $10            1775 College Road
                                                        Ohio State University
institution                              $40            Columbus, OH 43210
                                                        Telephone: (614) 292-6985
lifetime                                $500            birkhold.22@osu.edu

lifetime patron                        $1,500           Professor Chunjie Zhang
                                                        Department of German and Russian
                                                        One Shields Ave
                                                        University of California, Davis
                                                        Davis, CA 95616
                                                        Telephone: (530) 754-2803
                        ***                             chjzhang@ucdavis.edu

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Secretary-Treasurer                          Book Review Editor

   Professor William Carter                     Professor Sean Franzel
   Department of World Languages and            Department of German and Russian Studies
   Cultures                                     University of Missouri
   Iowa State University                        428 Strickland Hall
   3102 Pearson Hall                            Columbia MO, 65211
   Ames, IA 50011                               Telephone: (573) 882-4328
   Telephone: (515) 294-1610                    Fax: (573) 884-8456
   wcarter@iastate.edu                          franzels@missouri.edu

Editors of the Yearbook                      Editor of the Book Series
   Professor Sarah Eldridge                     Professor John Lyon
   718 McClung Tower                            1518 Cathedral of Learning
   1115 Volunteer Blvd.                         4200 Fifth Avenue
   University of Tennessee, Knoxville           University of Pittsburgh
   Knoxville, TN 37996-0470                     Pittsburgh, PA 15260
   Telephone: (865) 974-9758                    Telephone: (412) 624-5839
   seldrid2@utk.edu

                                             Editor of the Newsletter
   Professor Eleanor Ter Horst
   Department of Modern and Classical           Professor Burkhard Henke
   Languages and Literature                     Department of German Studies
   University of South Alabama                  Davidson College
   322 HUMB, 5991 USA Drive, N                  Box 6956
   Mobile, AL 36688                             Davidson, NC 28035-6956
   Telephone: (251) 461-1527                    Telephone: (704) 894-2269
   eterhorst@southalabama.edu                   buhenke@davidson.edu

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