German Faculty and Staff
German Program
German Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Christiane Frey
Director of Graduate Studies in German, Associate Professor of German, Co-Director, Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought
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- Gilman 408
Research Interests: 17th- and 18th-century German literature in the European context; history of science; literature and astronomy; early modern philosophy and aesthetics; critical theories of secularization; baroque temporalities; small forms; historical epistemologies and ecologies
Education: PhD, University of Bonn
Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei
Professor and William Kurrelmeyer Chair in German
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- Gilman 416
- 410-516-7509
Research Interests: Continental Philosophy; Phenomenology; Aesthetics and Philosophy of Literature; Cognitive Literary Theory; Philosophy of Imagination; Modern German Literature and Thought., Literary Ecology and Environmental Studies
Education: DPhil, University of Oxford, PhD, Villanova University
Jacob Haubenreich
Director of Undergraduate Studies in German, Assistant Professor of German
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- Gilman 435
Research Interests: 19th-21st century German literature, posthermeneutics, theory and history of media, Schriftbildlichkeit, book history, writing process, archival theory and practice, experimental literature, literature and the visual arts, new materialism, multilingualism
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Katrin Pahl
Professor of German
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- Gilman 414
- 410-516-7513
Research Interests: German literature and philosophy in comparative perspective (US and French); the theory, poetics and history of emotionality, gender and sexuality; contemporary theater; Hegel; Kleist
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Heiko ter Haseborg
Associate Teaching Professor, German, Director, German Language Program, Study Abroad Advisor
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- Gilman 469B
Research Interests: World language pedagogy, curriculum design, curriculum evaluation, assessment, teacher and learner role in language education, second language acquisition, and metacognition
Education: PhD, West Virginia University
Rochelle Tobias
Professor of German, Head of Section, Co-Director, Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought
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- Gilman 404
Research Interests: 18th to 20th century German and European literature and thought; phenomenology; religious studies; continental philosophy; modern poetry; theory of the novel, fiction, and autobiography; German-Jewish culture.
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Josh Todarello
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
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Research Interests: The intersections of aesthetics and political economy, the novel, comparative literature, globalization, and postcolonial studies.
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Heidi Wheeler
Senior Lecturer, German, Coordinator, Intermediate German
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- Gilman 491
Education: MA, University of Kansas
Associated Faculty
Lucy Allais
Miller Professor of Philosophy
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Research Interests: Kant, forgiveness, punishment
Education: D.Phil., Oxford
Jennifer Culbert
Associate Professor, Political Science
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Research Interests: Political theory, jurisprudence
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Jelavich
Professor, History
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Research Interests: European cultural and intellectual history
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Katharina Kraus
Miller Associate Professor of Philosophy
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Research Interests: Philosophy of Enlightenment, 19th and 20th century German philosophy
Education: PhD, University of Cambridge
Leonardo Lisi (he/him)
Associate Professor, Comparative Thought and Literature, Diversity Champion, Executive Editor, Comparative Literature Issue, MLN
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Research Interests: European literature of the 19th century, modernism, Kierkegaard and German idealism
Education: PhD, Yale University
Yitzhak Melamed
Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy
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Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, German idealism, metaphysics
Education: PhD, Yale University
Mitchell Merback
Professor, History of Art
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Research Interests: Late medieval and northern Renaissance art
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Dean Moyar
Professor, Philosophy
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Research Interests: German Idealism, ethics, political philosophy
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Karen ní Mheallaigh
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics
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Research Interests: Greek literature, culture, and science
Education: PhD, Trinity College Dublin
Caroline Lillian Schopp
Assistant Professor, History of Art
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Research Interests: Modern and contemporary art, critical theory, performance
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Mark Christian Thompson
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, English
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Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century African-American, German and French literature; the history and representation of race in literature and philosophy; political philosophy; aesthetics; art theory
Education: PhD, New York University
Emeritus professors
Deborah McGee Mifflin
Associate Teaching Professor of German, Language Program Director, German, Study Abroad Advisor
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Research Interests: German language, literature & linguistics; pedagogy of language teaching, theories of second language acquisition
Education: MA, Temple University