Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto
Acting Associate Chair, Graduate Studies Professor of German Extraordinary Professor, Modern Foreign Languages, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Vice-President, International Herder Society Contact info john.noyes@utoronto.ca For graduate matters: german.grad@utoronto.ca Office University of Toronto Odette Hall 304 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 3L5 Phone 416-926-2344 Office Hours tba Classes 2022 – 2023 GER305HF German Literature II GER410HF Intellectual History: Enlightenment and After GER1480HS Goethe’s Faust Background Ph.D. Cape Town 1989 Recent Fellowships and Awards Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Connection Grant for Planetary Humanities workshop Vice Provost’s International Fund grant for Planetary Humanities workshop Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Project: Global Humanities (2020 and 2021) Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada Insight Grant for the project “Goethe’s World” (2018) John K. Noyes, Herder: Aesthetics Against Imperialism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2015. Winner of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, best book 2014-2015. Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Project: Global Citizenship and the Practice of Being Human. South African Visions and the legacy of Enlightenment (2016 and 2017) National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for project The Legacy of Herder’s Theory ... Read More »