People
The Graduate Group in German Languages and Literatures
Core and affiliate members of the graduate group direct dissertation committees, and participate in the faculty-graduate student colloquium.
Standing Faculty
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Presidential Associate Professor of German, with a secondary appointment in History of Art
late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, print culture, history of visual media, history of books and periodicals, the environmental humanities, commemoration, approaches to race, gender, and sexuality
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Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Associate Professor of 19th Century European Art, with secondary appointment in Germanic Languages and Literatures
Art and material culture of France, Germany and Britain in the mid to late nineteenth century, with an emphasis on cross-national developments in the histories of science, politics, psychology, and sexuality.
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Associate Professor of Francophone, Italian & Germanic Studies
literary modernism in French and German, film studies, queer studies, the environmental humanities, porn studies
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Executive Director of Language Instruction for the School of Arts & Sciences
Second language acquisition, curriculum design, digital pedagogy
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Professor of Germanic Languages
Yiddish language, Yiddish literature in translation, gender and Jewish literature, Jewish American literature, Jewish film, literary translation
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Class of 1942 Endowed Term Professor of German
cultural history of water management and forestry, climate adaptation, energy transitions, 18th-century literature, gender studies, cultural studies, cinema studies, history of the body, environmental humanities, 20th-century history novel, Dutch literature and culture
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Assistant Professor of German, Affiliated Faculty in Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies
LGBTQ history, literature, film, television, and print culture in Germany since 1890
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Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences
18th - early 20th century literature, comparative literature, aesthetic theory, German-Jewish writing
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Professor of German
environmental humanities, translation and multilingualism, cultural memory, public history and humanities
Lecturers
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Visiting Assistant Professor
literary and critical theory, German Romanticism and Idealism, Russian Formalism, Soviet and Western Marxism, materialism and the Spinozist tradition
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Lecturer in Yiddish
Yiddish language and music
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Lecturer in Foreign Languages
Business German
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Language Program Director, Lecturer in Foreign Languages
Curriculum Design, Critical Content-Based Instruction, Digital Humanities, Technology in Language Education, Intercultural and Sociocultural Theories of Learning.
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Lecturer of Dutch Language and Literature
Dutch Language and Literature
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Lecturer in Foreign Languages
German Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, Intercultural Learning
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Lecturer in German Language
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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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
Emeriti
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Associate Professor Emeritus of German
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In Memoriam
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus of German Philology
Germanic philology
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Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Baroque literature, Sprachgesellschaften, language pedagogy
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Professor Emeritus of German
19th- and 20th-century literature, modernism, cultural studies