October 13, 2005
Brown receives Humboldt Award
Jane Brown, professor of Germanics, has received a Humboldt Research Award in recognition of lifetime achievements in research. She will be invited to carry out research projects in cooperation with specialist colleagues in Germany.
Brown, who has taught at the UW since 1988, is a specialist in 17th, 18th and 19th century comparative literature. She is interested in drama, narrative and lyric of those centuries and has published extensively on Goethe, particularly Faust, and also on Droste, Shakespeare, Schubert and Mozart. She is currently working on a book on allegory and the advent of Neoclassicism in drama and opera from Shakespeare to Wagner.
Brown is a former president of the Goethe Society of North America. She earned her PhD at Yale University.
