Johns Hopkins UniversityEst. 1876

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Meet Chad Wellmon

Chad Wellmon is a professor of German at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University and Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age.

Published Works

Cover of "After the University" by Chad Wellmon, featuring the fallen head of a classical marble sculpture with colorful wildflowers appearing to grow out of it.

After the University

Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work

Chad Wellmon

Publication Date

2026

Cover image of Organizing Enlightenment

Organizing Enlightenment

Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University

Chad Wellmon

Publication Date

2016