Visiting Faculty

Frauke Berndt

Max Kade Visiting Professor
German

Frauke Berndt is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Zurich, after having taught at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, the University of Chicago, and Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Berndt has also been a visiting professor at several American universities. She has published widely on rhetoric, aesthetics, poetics & literary theory, focusing on German literature, history & thought from the 18th & 19th centuries. She is the author of...

Stefan Laffin

DAAD Professor
German
History
Education

Dr. phil, Bielefeld University, Germany (2021)
M.A., Bielefeld University, Germany (2013)

Representative Publications

Unter alliierter Besatzung. Das lange Ende des Krieges in Süditalien, 1943–1947 [Under Allied Occupation. The Long End of the War in Southern Italy, 1943–1947], De Gruyter: Berlin/Boston, 2024.

Deutsche Wissenschaftspolitik im Ausland und gelebtes Patriarchat. Gründung und Aufbau des Deutschen Studienzentrums in Venedig, 1965–1985 [German Science Policy Abroad and Lived Patriarchy. Establishment and...