the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, edited Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (German quarterly magazine of literature and intellectual history). He was also named a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Southeast Asian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.