The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany has awarded a Humboldt Research Award for Researchers in the Field of Humanities to Robert Louis Jackson, the B.E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Jackson will work at the University of Heidelberg in Germany during the spring term of 1999 and part of the spring of 2000.

His project centers on Goethe's 1811 novel "Elective Affinities." In particular, he will focus on the novel as a forerunner of the Russian philosophical novel, exploring Goethe's treatment of the questions of character and fate and freedom and responsibility.

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