Germanic Languages & Literatures

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314.935.5106; Fax: 314.935.7255; german@artsci.wustl.edu

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Stephan Schindler, Chair 18th and 20th Century German Literature; Film; Gender Studies; Holocaust Studies; Critical Theory
Matt Erlin 18th and 19th Century German Literature and Culture; Aesthetic Theory; Philosophies of History; Economics and Literature; Urban Culture
Jennifer Kapczynski 19th to 21st-century Literature; Film Studies; Gender Theory; Nationalism; German-American Relations
Lutz Koepnick 19th - 21st Century German Literature and Culture; Critical Theory and Cultural Studies; Film and Film/Media Theory; Intellectual History
William Layher Medieval Literature; Manuscript Text and Image; Old Norse; Heroism and Monstrosity; Drama--Medieval and Modern
Paul Michael Lützeler German and European Romanticism; Literature and Culture of the 1920s; Exile Literature 1933-45; Contemporary German Literature; Contemporary Discourses in the Humanities
Erin McGlothlin Postwar and Contemporary German and German-Jewish Literature; Literature of the Holocaust; Narrative theory; Autobiography; Theater and Drama
Eva-Maria Russo Foreign Language Pedagogy; 18th Century Literature; Bourgeoise Tragedy; Gender Studies; Love, Violence, Humor
Lynne Tatlock History of the Novel; Gender Studies and Women's Writing; Nationalism and Regionalism; Material Culture of Reading; Translation and Cultural Mediation; Literature and Society; Literature and Medicine
Gerhild Williams Early Modern German and French Literature; Volksbuch; Travel Narratives; Reformation Movements; Magic/Daemonlogies/Witch Theory; Translation Theory and Practice

Adjunct Professors

   
James McLeod 20th Century Prose Fiction; Literature and Publishing History; Western European Studies

Professors Emerti

   
James Fitzgerald Poag Early and High Middle Ages; Medieval Romance; Medieval Law and Literature; Medieval Bible Exegesis; Mysticism; History of the German Language; Middle High German
Egon Schwarz Austrian Literature; 19th Century Literature; Fin-de-siècle; Modern Literature; Märchen; Utopia

Affiliated Faculty

   
Sabine Eckmann 20th and 21st Century European Art and Visual Culture; Aesthetics; Avant-Garde and Politics; New Media; Critical Theory and Cultural Studies
Claude Evans Environmental Ethics; History of Modern Philosophy; Kant; Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Gerald N. Izenberg Modern European History and Intellectual History
Christine Johnson Early Modern Germany: Renaissance Knowledge and Culture; European Expansion and Empire
Hillel J. Kieval Jewish Culture and Society in East Central Europe; Ethnicity and Nationalism; History and Memory
Corinna Treitel Modern Germany and Central Europe; Cultural History; History of Science and Medicine

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Germanic Languages & Literatures

314.935.5106; Fax: 314.935.7255; german@artsci.wustl.edu

One Brookings Drive, CB 1104, St. Louis, MO 63130