Beate I. Allert

Prof. Dr. Beate Allert completed her M.A. and Ph.D. at the U of California Berkeley, her undergraduate studies at the Universität Tübingen, Germany, taught at Mills College (CA), Mount Holyoke College (MA), at University of Bordeaux, France, and at Universität in Freiburg, Germany where she directed the Purdue-Ohio- Indiana Universities Consortium. She teaches as Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and Film Studies at Purdue University, was President of the International Herder Society, and is currently Director of the Comparative Literature program.

Her publications include so far seven books and one more contracted currently. There are two monographs and five edited or co-edited volumes: 1) Jean Paul: Die Metapher und ihre Krise (Peter Lang 1987; 2) Languages of Visuality: Crossings between Science, Art, Politics, and Literature (Wayne State UP 1997); 3) Comparative Cinema: How American Students View Foreign Films (Mellen 2008); 4) Herder: From Cognition to Cultural Studies (Synchron 2016); 5) G.E. Lessing: Poetic Constellations between the Visual and the Verbal (Synchron 2018); 6) A v Humboldt: Perceiving the World (Purdue U P 2023); and 7) Interiority in German Women Writing (Delaware UP 2026). She has under contract her eight book, work in progress, a coedited volume on Transcendental Philosophy and Early German Romantic Literature; Novalis, Schlegel, and Schelling to be published by the philosophy book series in Bloomsbury Press.