Beate I. Allert

Beate I. Allert is a Professor at Purdue University with joint appointments in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies (as Director of the Comparative Literature Program) and the School of Languages and Cultures (Professor of German and Comparative Literature). She has taught at Purdue since 1991, with prior positions at Mills College, Mount Holyoke College, University of Bordeaux, and Universität Freiburg. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from UC Berkeley and an undergraduate degree from Universität Tübingen.

Her research explores interdisciplinary intersections in:

• German/Comparative Literature (18th–19th centuries)
• Visual-verbal dynamics and ekphrasis
• Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Weimar Classicism
• Film theory and color semantics
• Hermeneutics and critical methodologies

Leadership includes:

• Director of Graduate Studies (School of Languages & Cultures, 2017–2018)
• Current Director of Comparative Literature Program
• President (2013–2015) and Vice President (2011–2013) of the International Herder Society

She collaborates with Fulbright, DAAD, and Purdue's GEARE program, and leads the Purdue-Freiburg University partnership. Her advising focuses on guiding MA/PhD students in Comparative Literature.