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  • Nicholas Baer

    Assistant Professor of German

    Research

    Film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, intellectual history, philosophy of history

  • Hannes Bajohr

    German - Assistant Professor

    Research

    German 20th century history of philosophy (critical theory, hermeneutics, phenomenology, philosophical anthropology), theories of the digital, digital literature and generative AI, political theory.

  • Lilla Balint

    Assistant Professor of German

    Research Areas

    Contemporary German Literature and Media; Theories of the Contemporary; Aesthetics and Politics; Transnationalism and Translation; Digital Writing; European Jewish Literatures; Literary and Cultural Theory; Theories of the Novel

  • Jeroen Dewulf

    Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies; Professor in German Studies; Faculty Academic Director of Study Abroad; Director of the Institute of European Studies; Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies

    Research Areas

    Altantic history; Dutch and Portuguese colonial history, with a focus on culture, religion, literature, and language; Dutch literature; German Studies, with a focus on Switzerland; Low Countries Studies; European politics and culture.

    From New Amsterdam to New York: Race, Culture, and Identity in New Netherland; Anne Frank and After: World War II and the Holocaust in the Netherlands; The Indonesian Connection: Dutch Dutch (Post)colonial History and Culture…
  • Nikolaus Euba

    Director of German Language Program

    Research Areas

    Foreign Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition

    Applied Linguistics

  • Karen Feldman

    Professor of German, Department Chair

    Research Areas

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

  • Research Areas

    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

  • Niklaus Largier

    Professor of German and Comparative Literature

    Research Areas

    Medieval Literature; Literature and religion; History of the Imagination; Literature, sensation and emotions; Aesthetics

  • Chenxi Tang

    Professor of German

    Research Areas

    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