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R. Ellis Dye Return to faculty and staff directory Ellis Dye's primary interests are literature, literary criticism and theory, and philosophy. He teaches at all levels in our curriculum, including courses on Romanticism, Goethe, Modernism (Kafka, Hesse, Mann) and--in Philosophy--Heidegger and Nietzsche. The latter two courses are cross-listed in Philosophy and taken by Philosophy majors. Ellis's research is focused on 18th-century literature and Romanticism, particularly on Goethe, author of Faust and one of the giants of world literature. Ellis is the author of numerous published articles (two of them in PMLA, one of the profession's most prestigious journals) and is at work on a book to be called One and Double: Love and Death in Goethe. He was the book review editor of the Goethe Yearbook. Ellis is DeWitt Wallace Professor of German and was a recipient of the Burlington-Northern Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has served many years as Chair of the German Studies and Russian Department, has been the president of the Macalester College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and the presiding officer of the faculty, and he has advised many of Macalester's sixty-nine winners of Fulbright Fellowships for post-graduate study. Office: Phone: 651-696 email: dye@macalester.edu