Comparative Literature

Related Faculty

Ellwood Wiggins
Associate Professor of German Studies
Chair

Latest News

Graduate Student Update: Inga Schwemin (November 4, 2025)
Department Calendar: Fall 2025 (October 7, 2025)
Diana Behler Memorial Lecture (May 14, 2025)
Department Calendar: Spring 2025 (May 5, 2025)
UW and Goethe Studies (November 14, 2024)

Related Research

Ellwood Wiggins, "The Tragic Idealism of Double Consciousness: W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk and Friedrich Schiller's Naive and Sentimental Poetry," Monatshefte 115/3 (2023): 344-64.
Ellwood Wiggins, “The Latent Radicalism of Aristotle and J.M.R. Lenz,” German Life and Letters, 76.1 (2023): 150-172.
Ellwood Wiggins, "Stage of Exception: Politics and Theater in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida," Early Modern Literary Studies 22:2 (2022). [https://journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/EMLS/article/view/303]
Block, Richard. "Mourning Becomes Electric: The Disappearing Act of AIDS." CR: The New Centennial Review, vol. 21 no. 2, 2021, p. 55-82.
Brigitte Prutti. „#MeToo: Don Cäsar und Lukrezia. Kollateralschäden in Grillparzers Bruderzwist in Habsburg.“ In: Philologie im Netz 90 (2020), pp. 35-86.
Terrasi, S. Kye and Andre Schütze. "EIne Psychogeographie des Verlustes: Wien in Heimito von Doderers Roman Die Strudlhofstiege." Brigitte Prutti. Guest editor/Editorial of literatur für leser 17: 3. Themed volume on Literarisches Wien/Literary Vienna.
Brigitte Prutti. Autorschaft und Interieur: Garp und wie er Grillparzer sah.“ In: Jahrbuch der Grillparzer-Gesellschaft 27 (2017-2018): 150-181.
Wiggins, Ellwood. "The Moral Aesthetic of the Scream: Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Hidden Structure of Lessing's Laokoon." Lessing Yearbook 51 (2024): 51-71.
Brigitte Prutti, Guest Editor, literatur für leser:innen, Peter Lang Verlag, JG. 42, H. 2 – Themenheft „Gegenwartsautor:innen“, Mit Beiträgen von Karin Bauer, Simone Pfleger, Julia K. Gruber, Olivia Albiero, Heidi Schlipphack, 2022.
Ammerlahn, Hellmut. Imagination & Meisterschaft / Mastery. Neue und frühere Goethe-Studien plus Essays on Goethe written in English. KÖNIGSHAUSEN & NEUMANN. 2021.