David E. Wellbery (born 1947) is a prominent literary critic within German Studies.
He is currently the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor at the University of Chicago. He holds appointments in Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature and in the Committee on Social Thought. He is the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture. In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate: Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Universität Konstanz.
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