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Elena Zhukova
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Ambika Athreya

Department: German
Role: Graduate Students
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Nicholas Baer

Role: Faculty
Research interests:

film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, philosophy of history, technics, media theory and archaeology
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Hannes Bajohr

Role: Faculty
Research interests:

Theories of the digital, digital literature and generative AI, German 20th century history of philosophy, political theory.
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Lilla Balint

Role: Faculty
Research interests:

Lilla Balint specializes in postwar and contemporary German literature, culture, and critical thought, with an emphasis on post-1989 literary production. Her research is transnational and comparative in orientation, focusing on the long history of narrative forms, from the novel to...
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Andrew Blough

Department: German
Role: Graduate Students
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Laura Sacia Bonicatto

Job title: Continuing Lecturer
Department: German
Role: Lecturers
Research interests:

Intercultural Communication, Lexicography, Pronouns, Bilingualism/Multilingualism, Translation
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Miriam Borden

Job title: Yiddish - Lecturer
Department: German
Role: Lecturers
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Judith Butler

Department: Rhetoric and Comparative Literature
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Research interests:

Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Gender theory, German philosophy and critical theory
Name:

Pheng Cheah

Job title: Professor
Department: Rhetoric
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Research interests:

World literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought
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John Connelly

Job title: Professor
Department: History
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Research interests:

Eastern Europe, GDR
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Jeroen Dewulf

Role: Undergrad Advisor, Faculty
Research interests:

Altantic Studies, with a focus on history, foklore, culture, religion, literature, and language; The transatlantic slave trade; Dutch and Portuguese colonial history; Dutch and Flemish literature, history, and culture; German literature, with a focus on Switzerland.
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Anna Lynn Dolman

Department: German
Role: Graduate Students
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John Efron

Job title: Professor
Department: History
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Research interests:

German-Jewish Relations, Yiddish
Name:

Nikolaus Euba

Role: Undergrad Advisor, Faculty
Research interests:

Foreign Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics
Name:

Karen Feldman

Role: Faculty
Research interests:

Frankfurt School; German Idealism; Aesthetics; Literature and Philosophy; Intellectual History
Name:

Sara Friedman

Job title: Visiting Professor
Department: History
Role: Visiting Faculty
Research interests:

Imperial and Weimar Germany, German film and literature, World War I, LGBTQ+ history, Media archaeology
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Hannah Ginsborg

Role: Affiliated Faculty
Research interests:

Kant
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Amanda Goldstein

Job title: Assistant Professor
Department: English
Role: Affiliated Faculty
Research interests:

Romanticism, Life Sciences, Poetics, Materialism, Ecology, Literary and Critical Theory
Name:

Deniz Göktürk

Role: Faculty
Research interests:

Cultural and media studies with a focus on moving images, multilingual literature, and theories of migration, social interaction and aesthetic intervention in a global horizon
Name:

Almadora Henry

Job title: Financial Analyst
Department: German
Role: Staff