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Faculty Research Areas
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| Stephan Schindler, Chair | 18th and 20th Century German Literature; Film; Gender Studies; Holocaust Studies; Critical Theory; Culture Studies | |
| 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; the Graphic Novel | |
| 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; Book History; Reading Cultures; Translation and Cultural Mediation; Literature and Society; Literature and Medicine | |
| Sarah Westphal-Wihl | Legal Contexts of Medieval German Narrative; Women and the Culture of the Medieval Book; Kunigunde of Bavaria (+1520) and Female Biography in the Early Modern Period; Wild Women and Amazons--Gender in German Medieval Court Culture; Communities of Traditional Catholic Piety in the Age of Enlightenment | |
| Gerhild Williams | Early Modern German and French Literature; Volksbuch/Novel; Travel Narratives; Reformation Movements; Magic/Daemonlogies/Witch Theory; Translation Theory and Practice; Media and Culture | |
Adjunct Professors |
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| James McLeod | 20th Century Prose Fiction; Literature and Publishing History; Western European Studies | |
Professors Emerti |
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| 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 |
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| 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; Habsburg Central Europe; Ethnicity and Nationalism; History and Memory | |
| Corinna Treitel | Modern Germany and Central Europe; Cultural History; History of Science and Medicine | |
