Beate I AllertBeate I. Allert is professor of German, comparative literature, and film studies, and director of comparative literature at Purdue University. She is the author or editor of five books, and her research focuses on the Enlightenment, Weimar Classicism Romanticism, visuality, text-image debates, environmentalism, temporality, and color. She served as vice president and president of the International Herder Society. Read More Read Less