Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge is Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she has worked since receiving her PhD from Princeton University. Her research interests focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, particularly the genre of the novel. Her first book, Novel Affinities: Composing the Family in the German Novel 1795-1830, appeared with Camden House in 2016. She received a Fulbright research grant in 2016. Her articles have appeared in Goethe Yearbook, Monatshefte, Journal of Literary Theory, and Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, among others. Her co-edited collection Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Philosophy appeared with Oxford University Press in 2020.