Judith Ryan
Judith L. Ryan is the emerita Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Research Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She is known for her work on German studies from the 19th century to the present.
Education and career
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 Northampton, Massachusetts.As of 2025 she is the emerita Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Research Professor of German and Comparative Literature.''''''
Awards and honors
Ryan received the Humboldt Research Award in 2009-2010. She received the Basilius Award for Germanics and was twice awarded the prize for best article of the year in The German Quarterly has given her their prize for the article of the year twiceSelected publications
- Ryan, Judith. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Ryan, Judith. . New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
- Wellbery, David, and Judith Ryan. . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2004, 2004.
- Ryan, Judith. . Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Ryan, Judith. . 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. Munich: Winkler, 1972.