Chad Wellmon

Chad Wellmon is Commonwealth Professor of English and German at the University of Virginia, where he also holds an appointment in History. He earned a B.A. in Political Philosophy and German from Davidson College and a Ph.D. in German Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses on European intellectual history, the history of knowledge and technology, universities, media studies, and social theory.

Wellmon is the author of Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom and Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University. He co-edited Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions, a collection of Friedrich Nietzsche’s lectures, with Paul Reitter, and has also co-edited or contributed to works on reading, print, the research university, and Max Weber.