Emeriti

People

Emeriti

  • Anton Kaes

    Class of 1939 Professor of German and Film & Media

    Research Areas

    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

  • Claire Kramsch

    Professor Emerita

    Research Areas

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

  • Winfried Kudszus

    Professor Emeritus

    Research Areas

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

  • Irmengard Rauch

    Professor Emerita

    Research Areas

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

  • Hinrich C. Seeba

    Professor Emeritus

    Research Areas

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

  • 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

  • Johan Snapper

    Professor Emeritus

  • Elaine Tennant

    Professor Emerita

    Research Areas

    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

  • Frederic Tubach

    Professor Emeritus

    Research Areas

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