John A. McCarthy

John A. McCarthy was Professor of German & Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University. His interests ranged from the European Enlightenment, to readership studies, the history of Germanics, Romanticism, the relationship of social history, philosophy, science, and law to literature. He edited Shakespeare as German Author: Reception, Translation Theory, Cultural Transfer(2018) and co-edited Taking Stock - Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research(2019). John A. McCarthy passed away in August 2022 during the preparation of this manuscript for publication.