Jeroen Dewulf
Associate Professor of German; Director of the Dutch Studies Program
Research Areas: Dutch and Portuguese (post)colonial literature and history; Transatlantic slave trade; Hybridity and miscegenation; Contemporary German-Swiss literature
Recent Courses: The Dutch-Speaking Caribbean; From New Amsterdam to New York; Anne Frank and After; “Minor Literatures” – Austrian and Swiss Literature and Identity
Karen Feldman
Associate Professor of German
Research Areas: Frankfurt School; German Idealism; Aesthetics; Literature and Philosophy; Intellectual History
Recent Courses: Benjamin & Adorno; 18th Century Theories of Language; Formalism and Historicism
Deniz Göktürk
Associate Professor of German
Research Areas: Cultural aspects of migration and globalization; transnational connections in world cinema, particularly German-Turkish-European-American networks of circulation; media old and new – from early cinema to contemporary video art and digital archives; changing configurations of authorship and spectatorship; intertextuality, intermediality, and translation; regimes of mobility, borders, multiculturalism, and nationalism; urban imaginaries; art and geopolitics
Recent Courses: Kafka and Modernism; Comedy and Community; Multicultural Germany; Orienting Europe; Transnational Cinema; Media, Spectatorship, and Place
Anton Kaes
Professor of German and Film & Media
Research Areas: Modernism/modernity; Weimar cinema; trauma and memory; film history; contemporary cultural theory
Recent Courses: German-Jewish Encounters in German, American, and Israeli Cinema; Media Theory: Benjamin and Kracauer; Cinema of Crisis, 1929-1936; German Exiles and Film Noir; The Essay Film
Claire Kramsch
Professor of German
Research Areas: Applied linguistics; Social, cultural and stylistic approaches to language study; Discourse analysis; Multilingualism; Second language acquisition
Recent Courses: Language and Power; Bilingualism; Second language acquisition
Winfried Kudszus
Professor of German
Research Areas: 19th and 20th century literature; Literature and philosophy; Literature and psychology
Recent Courses: 20th Century Poetry; Literary Translation; Literary Theory; Poetry and Thought
Niklaus Largier
Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Research Areas: Medieval Literature; Literature and religion; History of the Imagination; Literature, sensation and emotions; Aesthetics
Recent Courses: Image and Imagination: Baroque and Cyberspace; Alien Worlds in Medieval Literature; Mysticism—Medieval and Modern; Religion, Imagination, and Ascetic Practices
Irmengard Rauch
Professor of Germanic Linguistics
Research Areas: Germanic linguistics, historical and contemporary; Linguistic fieldwork; Socio-cultural and cognitive approaches to language variation and language change; Semiotics
Recent Courses: History of the German Language; Semiotics; Old High German; Comparative Germanic
Thomas Shannon
Professor of Germanic Linguistics and Dutch Studies
Research Areas: Germanic linguistics; Modern German and Dutch; Syntax and phonology; Functional and cognitive approaches, e.g. the affects of various semantic, pragmatic, and processing factors on syntactic phenomena
Recent Courses: Morphology and Syntax of Modern German; Introduction to German Linguistics; Contrastive Grammar
Chenxi Tang
Associate Professor of German
Research Areas: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, with special emphasis on Classicism and Romanticism; Early modern European literature; Literature in relation to law and political thought; Literature in relation to science and technology; Aesthetics and poetics
Recent Courses: Law and Literature; Tragedy and the Tragic; German Drama and Opera; The Political Eighteenth Century; German Romanticism; Goethe; Wagner and Nietzsche
Elaine Tennant
Professor of German; Director of the Bancroft Library
Research Areas: Medieval and early modern literature; The Habsburg court society in the early modern period; Development of the German language at the end of the Middle Ages; Vienna as a cultural capital
Recent Courses: Fin-de-siècle Vienna; 16th and 17th Century Literature; The Nibelung Tradition; Early Modern Autobiography