Germanic Languages and Literatures
Affiliated Faculty
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Director, Comparative Literature Program; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Twentieth-century American literature, postcolonial studies (especially African and South African literature), modernism, globalization and transnational cultural studies, and contemporary women writers
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Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and Folklore
Fairy tale, Grimm brothers, Yiddish folk tales, Nazi-era Volkskunde
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Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History
Hegel, Marx, 19th and 20th century German and European intellectual and cultural history, and contemporary theory
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Assistant Professor in Early Modern Art
Early modern art, print media, Reformation history, German literature 15th-18th centuries, German law and political theory 15th-18th centuries
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Professor of English, Cinema and Media Studies, and History of Art
Film studies, modern American and German cinema, and pedagogy
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William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Music
19th & 20th century music, Scandinavian studies
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Professor Emeritus, Graduate Group in Architecture, School of Design
Architectural theory and design studios
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Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Associate Professor of History
Habermas, the public sphere in eighteenth-century France, Russian-Jewish historiography, the state of the field of Russian and East European studies in Germany and the United States, modern Jewish history
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Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Endowed Professor in Film Studies
Cinema and modern Media
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Professor of Linguistics
Historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics (Greek, Tocharian, Germanic), morphology
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Professor Emeritus of European History
Renaissance and Reformation, early modern Europe
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James & Nan Wagner Farquhar Professor Emeritus of History of Art
Painting and graphics of Northern Europe, particularly Germany and the Netherlands during the era of Renaissance and Reformation, film
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Judith Rodin Professor of English, Department of English
Medieval and early modern European literature, including German and Dutch