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Judith Ryan

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Judith Ryan
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Münster
ThesisUmschlag und Verwandlung Poet. Struktur u. Dichtungstheorie in R. M. Rilkes Lyrik d. mittleren Perodie (1907-1914) (1970)

Judith L. Ryan is the emerita Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Research Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She is known for her work on German studies from the 19th century to the present.

Education and career

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A graduate of the University of Sydney, Australia, she received her doctorate at the University of Münster, Germany, in 1970. Before joining the faculty at Harvard University in 1985, she taught at Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts.

As of 2025 she is the emerita Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Research Professor of German and Comparative Literature.[1]

Awards and honors

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Ryan received the Humboldt Research Award in 2009-2010.[2] She received the Basilius Award for Germanics and was twice awarded the prize for best article of the year in The German Quarterly has given her their prize for the article of the year twice [citation needed]

Selected publications

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  • Ryan, Judith. The Uncompleted Past: Postwar German Novels and the Third Reich. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983.[6]
  • Ryan, Judith. Umschlag und Verwandlung. Poetische Struktur und Dichtungstheorie in R. M. Rilkes Lyrik der mittleren Periode (1907-1914). Munich: Winkler, 1972.

References

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  1. ^ "Judith Ryan". People - Judith Ryan. Harvard University. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Prof. Dr. Judith Lyndal Ryan". Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  3. ^ Reviews of The Novel After Theory
  4. ^ Reviews of Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition
  5. ^ Reviews of The Vanishing Subject
  6. ^ Reviews of The Uncompleted Past