Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge

Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge received her B.A. in German from the University of Chicago and her M.A. and Ph.D. in German from Princeton University. Her research interests focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, particularly the genre of the novel.. Her first book, Novel Affinities: Composing the Family in the German Novel 1795-1830, appeared with Camden House in 2016, and she received a Fulbright research grant to Dresden in 2016. Her  articles have appeared  in Goethe Yearbook, Monatshefte, Journal of Literary Theory, and Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, among others. Her co-edited collection Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Philosophy (with C. Allen Speight) appeared with Oxford University Press in 2020. Her second book project, Composite Selves: Power, Experience, and the Narrative Negotiation of Subjecthood 1700-1795  explores the connection between novellistic interiority, literary whiteness, and the contingent construction of selfhood across the breadth of the eighteenth century. Dr. Eldridge’s teaching and advising have covered literature and culture of the German Enlightenment to the early 20th century, as well as philosophy, history, and German language.

Phone: 865-974-9758

Email: seldrid2@utk.edu

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University