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Elena Zhukova

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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

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Lou Silhol-Macher

Department: German

Role: Graduate Students

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Hans Sluga

Job title: Professor

Department: Philosophy

Role: Affiliated Faculty

Research interests:

Frege, Wittgenstein, Heidegger and philosophy during the Third Reich

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Johan Snapper

Job title: Professor Emeritus

Department: German

Role: Emeriti

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Elizabeth Sun

Department: German

Role: Graduate Students

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Chenxi Tang

Role: Grad Advisor, Faculty

Research interests:

German literature and thought from the seventeenth to the twentieth century; Comparative study of European and Chinese literature and thought; Law and Literature; Political Thought

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Elaine Tennant

Job title: Professor Emerita

Department: German

Role: Emeriti

Research interests:

Medieval and early modern literature; Habsburg court society in the early modern period; development of the German language in the late Middle Ages; text and time image; textual instability; Vienna

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Sonja Thiel

Department: German

Role: Graduate Students

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Thomas Herman Siemerink

Department: German

Role: Graduate Students

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Elise Thora Volkmann

Department: German

Role: Graduate Students

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Noa Tsaushu

Job title: Yiddish - Lecturer

Role: Lecturers

Research interests:

Transnational Yiddish modernism, early Soviet-Yiddish literature and visual art, Yiddish avant-garde, Jewish art, art history, visuality and aniconism in Jewish culture, aesthetics, and critical theory.

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Frederic Tubach

Job title: Professor Emeritus

Department: German

Role: Emeriti

Research interests:

Medieval literature (epics and Minnesang); religious narratives (exempla); folklore; twentieth century German culture and society; Nazism; the Holocaust

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