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Washington University in St.
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Graduate
Students 2006-2007:
Russell Alt Jason Todd Baker [web
page] earned a B.A. in English and German from Truman State University in
1998 and an M.A. in German from Washington University in 2001. He is
currently completing his dissertation on the vicissitudes of early nineteenth
century Prussian propaganda literature. He has studied at the Freie
Universität Berlin and the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald. Christopher Bailes entered the Washington University German department in 2005. As an undergraduate at Kansas State University he majored in philosophy, history, and German. He studied abroad at the Universität Giessen in 2002-03 and at the Universität Leipzig in the summer of 2004. His research interests include contemporary German social and economic theories [i.e. theories of justice], intellectual history, the interrelationship between philosophy and literature, Nietzsche, Freud, and Kant. Bartell Berg [web page] Patrick Brugh earned a BA in English and German Literature from the
University of Pennsylvania in 2005, before taking a Fulbright Teaching award
in Bamberg, Germany during the 2005-06 academic year. He began graduate work
at Washington University in Fall 2006. Patrick’s research interests include
masculine studies, aesthetic theory, literature of the Early Modern and late
Middle Ages, the literature of war from all time periods, and any sort of
social upheaval or conflict whether outright or subtle. Norma Chapple Leah M. Chizek is in her fourth year of graduate study at Washington University. She
earned her BA at Macalester College in St. Paul with a major in urban studies
and geography and her MA at Washington University. She has studied at the
Freie Universität in Berlin and at University College in London. Her academic
interests include 19th through 21st century literature, Critical theory and
theories of the avant-garde, music and sonic culture, and travel and German
colonial literature. Necia Chronister Gwyneth E. Cliver earned her BA at Guilford College in 1999 and spent time in Munich in
Fall 1996 and Fall 1993. She was a teaching assistant at the Gymnasium in
Hoyerswerda from August 1999 to July 2000. Her research interests include
20th century literature, film, art history, and intersections between the
humanities and mathematics/sciences. Robert Feldman Anne Fritz Eugene Gagliano Tracy Graves Patience Graybill [web page] Theodore S. Jackson [web
page] is in his third year of graduate work and his eleventh year of
learning German. He earned his BA from Wittenberg University in 2003 and his
MA from Washington University in 2005. His academic interests include, but
are not limited to literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, gender and queer theory, intellectual history, and second language
acquisition. He wrote his qualifying paper on technologies of representation
in Gottfried Keller's Das Fähnlein der sieben Aufrechten. Lisa Haegele Julia Kleinheider is in her third year of graduate work at Washington
University. She earned her BA at Indiana University in German and
Anthropology. She has spent time abroad at Albert-Ludwigs Universität in
Freiburg and tutored English at the university and technical school in Erfurt
under the auspices of the Bosch Foundation. Her research interests include
Early Modern autobiographical writing, Walter Benjamin and Surrealism, and
World War I. Gregory Knott [web page] Suzuko Mousel Knott Mary Le Gierse earned her BA and MA at the University of
Pennsylvania and is in her third year of graduate work at Washington
University. Her academic interests include Freemasonry in the German-speaking
world of the eighteenth century, the education of women in the early modern
period, book production and the impact of technological advances on theology
between 1600 and 1800, as well as the development of German-American clubs and
organizations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ruxandra Marcu received her M.A. in German Studies at Bowling Green State University.
She spent two years in Salzburg studying at the Paris Lodron Universität
(2002-2004) and teaching English at the Fachhochschule Salzburg. She studied
French at the Institut de Touraine, Tours in the summer of 2005. She is working on a joint Ph.D. in
German and Comparative Literature. Her interests also include medieval
studies, the history of childhood, the Weimar Republic, contemporary Austrian
literature. Christine McCrory Katie McNeill Faruk Pasic is in his first year of study at Washington
University. He earned his B.A.
in German and economics from the University of Virginia in 2006. His
interests include German fin-de-siècle and early twentieth century literature,
pop music, and the Deutsche Bundesliga. Shane Peterson Heike Polster [web page] earned her MA at
the University of Georgia, completed a Magisterstudiengang at the
Otto-Friedrich-Universität in Bamberg, as well as a course in cookery at
Motherwell Technical College in Motherwell, Scotland. She is interested in
20th century German and Austrian literature and film, theories of
photography, philosophy of time, narrative theory, and the Frankfurt School.
She is writing her dissertation on W. G. Sebald, Wim Wenders, and Peter
Handke. Anne Popiel Nancy L. Twilley is in her third year of graduate work at
Washington University. She earned her BA at Vanderbilt University in 2004 and
studied in Regensburg in the summer of 2003. Her academic interests include
film, gender studies, architechture, monuments, memorials, and all literature
after the first World War. Her qualifying paper deals with issues of
authorship in Peter Lorre's films as well as the nature of the relationships
between film actor, screen, and audience. Beau Thomas Watkins is in his sixth year of graduate work. He
earned his BA and MA at the University of Alabama, spending a year in
Mannheim. He has also spent summers in Weingarten and Klagenfurt. His
research interests include Heinrich Mann and Gerhart Hauptmann, but he also
entertains affinities for Musil, Raabe, Schnitzler, Zweig, Wedekind,
Schopenhauer, and Roth. Exchange Students 2006-2007 Christoph Kasper (München) Jonas Meyer Christiane Neudorfer Nico Schlösser Frizzi Strube (FU Berlin) Valerie Wolf (Köln) |
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