Jens Kruse, born in Hamburg, Germany, was educated there and in the United States where he received his Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature from the University of California in Los Angeles in 1982.Mr. Kruse joined Wellesley College faculty in 1983. He teaches both German language and literature at all levels of the curriculum and has repeatedly been Chair of the German Department and served as Associate Dean of the College from 1992 until 1999. He is the author of books on Goethe and Kafka and articles on these authors and related topics.He is working on further eNotated editions of works by Kafka and Goethe, such as The Trial and The Sorrows of Young Werther.