Draft:Judith L. Ryan

Judith L. Ryan (born 1943, in Sydney, Australia) is Professor emerita of Germanic Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

Judith Lyndal Ryan is Professor emerita of German Studies at Harvard University.

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.

She has published widely in the field of German Studies from the 19th century to the present. Major authors on whom she has worked include Rilke, Kafka, Celan, Goethe, Grünbein, and Sebald.

Her teaching in the field of German included courses on German lyric poetry, German colonial fiction, 20th-century modernism, postwar German literature, and the contemporary novel. In Comparative Literature, she taught on topics including intertextuality, the relation between theory and literature, ekphrasis, and the modernist movements.

Honors

Ryan is the recipient of grants from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Humboldt-Forschungsstipendien-Programm, 1970), including the prestigious "Humboldtforschungspreis" in 2009-2010. Other awards include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1977-1978).</ref></ref> She received the Basilius Award for Germanics and was twice awarded the prize for best article of the year in The German Quarterly. At Harvard University, her scholarship was recognized by the award of the Walter Channing Cabot Prize in 1994 and her teaching was recognized by a Harvard College Professorship in 1998. She has been active on several committees of the Modern Language Association of America, and at Harvard served for six years on the Faculty Council.

Selected publications

• Ryan, Judith. The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• Ryan, Judith. The Novel After Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
• Wellbery, David, and Judith Ryan. A New History of German Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2004, 2004.
• Ryan, Judith. Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Ryan, Judith. The Vanishing Subject: Early Psychology and Literary Modernism. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991.
• Ryan, Judith. The Uncompleted Past: Postwar German Novels and the Third Reich. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983.
• Ryan, Judith. Umschlag und Verwandlung. Poetische Struktur und Dichtungstheorie in R. M. Rilkes Lyrik der mittleren Periode (1907-1914). Munich: Winkler, 1972.

External links

• https://german.fas.harvard.edu/people/judith-ryan
• https://scholar.harvard.edu/jryan/home
• https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/person/gnd/1019799951
• https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/vernetzen/recherche-im-humboldt-netzwerk/einzelansicht/1024119/prof-dr-judith-lyndal-ryan