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Elena Zhukova
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Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

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

Late Modern European History, Post-Enlightenment Sociability and Social Thought, Post-Catastrophic Cities, Begriffsgeschichte, Theory of History, Human Rights and Internationalism
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Eva Horn

Job title: Max Kade Visiting Professor
Department: German
Role: Visiting Faculty
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Anton Kaes

Job title: Class of 1939 Professor of German and Film & Media
Department: German and Film & Media
Role: Emeriti
Research interests:

Modernism/modernity; Weimar cinema and culture; trauma and memory; 20th century German literature, film, and avant-garde; film theory and media archaeology; Frankfurt School; German exiles; film noir; photography and temporality
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Claire Kramsch

Job title: Professor Emerita
Department: German
Role: Emeriti
Research interests:

Applied linguistics; Social, cultural and stylistic approaches to language study; Discourse analysis; Multilingualism; Second language acquisition
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Molly Krueger

Department: German
Role: Graduate Students
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Winfried Kudszus

Job title: Professor Emeritus
Department: German
Role: Emeriti
Research interests:

Ecosemiotics; Translation Studies; Language Philosophy (Hamann, Nietzsche, Mauthner, Wittgenstein, Heidegger); Psychoanalysis & Literature; 18th-21st Century Germanophone Poetry & Prose; 19th Century Science & Literature.
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Sean Lambert

Department: German
Role: Graduate Students
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Niklaus Largier

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:

Jamila Leaks

Job title: Academic Personnel Coordinator
Department: German
Role: Staff
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Sabine Lenz

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

Colloquialisms, Anglicisms, Register, Humor, Music, Cinema, Contemporary Literature.
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Linus Mao

Department: German
Role: Graduate Students
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Maxwell Moloney

Job title: Undergraduate Advisor, Curriculum Manager, and Course Scheduler
Department: German
Role: Staff
Name:

Gregory Pollet-Young

Job title: Department Manager
Department: German
Role: Staff
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Andrea Rapport

Job title: Graduate Advisor
Department: German
Role: Grad Advisor, Staff
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Irmengard Rauch

Job title: Professor Emerita
Department: German
Role: Emeriti
Research interests:

Germanic linguistics, historical and contemporary; Linguistic fieldwork; Socio-cultural and cognitive approaches to language variation and language change; Semiotics
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Linda Rugg

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

German culture of the late 19th through 20th century, turn-of-the-century Vienna and Prague
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Be Schierenberg

Department: German
Role: Graduate Students
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Hinrich C. Seeba

Job title: Professor Emeritus
Department: German
Role: Emeriti
Research interests:

Kleist; Fontane and German Realism; Theory of Hermeneutics; theory of cultural institutions; history of Germanistik, including German exiles
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Thomas Shannon

Job title: Professor of Germanic Linguistics and Dutch Studies
Department: German
Role: Emeriti
Research interests:

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
Name:

Lou Silhol-Macher

Department: German
Role: Graduate Students