Dr. John Lyon

Biography

John Lyon is a Professor and the Chair of the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research primarily focuses on German literature, philosophy, and culture from the 18th and 19th centuries. He is the author of significant monographs including 'Crafting Flesh, Crafting Self: Violence and Identity in Early 19th Century German Literature' (2006) and 'Place: German Realism, Displacement, Modernity' (2013). Lyon has served as co-editor for volumes such as 'Theodor Fontane in the Twenty-First Century' (2019) and 'Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture: Literary Joint Ventures, 1750-1850' (2019). His scholarly articles have appeared in leading journals like Colloquia Germanica, Eighteenth-Century Studies, German Life and Letters, Goethe Yearbook, and Literature and Medicine. He is also the editor of the 'New Studies in Age of Goethe' book series published by Bucknell University Press and has contributed to academic administration as the past chair of the Humanities Council at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, he is engaged in a project focusing on transnationalism in 19th-century European adultery novels.

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