Professor
Herbert S. Lindenberger
(
–
)
1929
2018
Stanford University
;
San Francisco, CA
Literary scholar; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2008
Herbert S. Lindenberger is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University, where he joined the faculty in 1969 as founder and Chairman of the Program in Comparative Literature. In 1990-91, he served as Interim Director of the Stanford Humanities Center. Prior to Stanford he was a professor of German and English and Chairman of the Program in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Until 1966 he was a faculty member at the University of California, Riverside. Author of seminal literary and cultural studies of considerable range: Wordsworth, Georg Buechner, Georg Trakl, German Romanticism, historical drama, opera, critical theory, interrelationships of the arts, his recent works include Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage (1998) and Dogstory: A Memoir in Hypertext (Stanford University, April, 1999). He is currently working on a project on the interrelationships of literature, art, and music during the last two centuries. Lindenberger served as president of the Modern Language Association in 1997-98.
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