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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 UniversitŠt Berlin
and the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-UniversitŠt 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
UniversitŠt Giessen in 2002-03 and at the
UniversitŠt Leipzig
in summer 2004. His research interests
include contemporary
German social and economic theories
[i.e. theories of
justice], intellectual history, the interrelation-
ship 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.
PatrickŐs 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 earned a B.A.H. in German and
English from
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (2004) and her M.A. in
German from the University of Waterloo, Canada (2006). Her M.A.
thesis focused on questions of authority and autonomy in German
intermedial versions of Oscar WildeŐs drama SalomŽ. Her research
interests include the fin-de-siŹcle, gender and queer theory, and film
studies.
Leah M. Chizek is in her fifth year
of graduate work at Washington
University, where she earned her M.A. in 2004. She previously
earned her B.A. in geography and urban studies from Macalester
College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and spent two years in Berlin studying
at the Freie-UniversitŠt. Her
academic interests traverse broad
ground and include 19th through 21st century German literature,
postwar and contemporary film, modernity,
Critical theory,
phenomenologies of space and urban experience, and acoustic
culture.
Necia Chronister is in her third year
of graduate studies at
Washington University. She received her B.A. at the University of
Oklahoma in 2003 and spent the 2003-2004 academic year on a
research fellowship at the Humboldt University in Berlin studying
post-reunification women writers. Her areas of
interest include
twentieth century literature, film, feminist theory, and literature written
by women. She is also pursuing a graduate certificate in Women and
Gender Studies.
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 FŠhnlein der sieben
Aufrechten.
Lisa Haegele
Julia Kleinheider is in her fourth year of graduate study at
Washington University. She
completed her undergraduate work in
Germanic Studies and Anthropology at Indiana University in 2002.
She has also studied at Albert-Ludwigs UniversitŠt in Freiburg and
taught English at the university andtechnical school in Erfurt under
the auspices of the Bosch Foundation.
She earned her M.A. in 2005 from Washington University and is
currently preparing to undertake
dissertation research. Her
interests include the biotechnical body in
art and literature of the WWI era, prosthetic theory, theories of the
avant-garde, and gender studies.
Gregory Knott [web
page]
Suzuko Mousel Knott
Audrey Krause
Melissa
Laugallies [web page]
Georgia
Anna Leeper
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 UniversitŠt (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
include medieval studies, the history of childhood, the Weimar
Republic, and 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-siŹcle and early
twentieth century literature, pop music, and the Deutsche Bundesliga.
Shane Peterson
Heike Polster [web page] graduated from the University of
Georgia with an MA in German Literature. She studied American
Literature, Philosophy, and History at Otto-Friedrich UniversitŠt in
Bamberg, and culinary arts in Motherwell, Scotland. Heike is
completing her dissertation on the use of visual material and
experiences in Thomas Lehr, Peter Handke, and W. G. Sebald as a
means to explore the passing of time and history. She is also
interested in European Intellectual History, Photography, Gender
Studies, and Computer-Aided Language Learning. Heike chairs the
Washington University Peer Mentoring Program.
Anne Popiel
Nancy Richardson [web
page]
Victoria Rust
Caroline Saxton earned her BA at Davidson College in
2005 and
is in her second year of graduate work at Washington University. She
studied at the Julius-Maximilians-UniversitŠt-Wźrzburg in WS03/04
and SS04. Her academic interests
include twentieth and twenty-first
century literature and film, translation theory, and representations of
mathematical thought in art, film and literature.
April Seager
Magdalen Stanley earned a BA in German and English Literature
from the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Before coming
to St. Louis, she
served as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant at the
Ilmenau-Kolleg in
Thuringia, Germany, where she was also an
honorary student of
Maschinenbau. Her academic
interests include
library and museum
culture, poetry and politics in the GDR, postwar
and contemporary
German art, aesthetic theory and intersections of
art, architecture and
memory. She also enjoys
translation,
PowerPoint and
cemeteries.
Richard Strudell [web
page]
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.
Erik Varela
Beau Thomas Watkins is in his sixth year of graduate work. He
earned his BA and MA at the University of
Alabama. He has spent
some time studying abroad in Weingarten,
Mannheim, Klagenfurt and Berlin. His current concentration is on
Gerhart Hauptmann's prose fiction--though he also entertains affinities for
the works of Musil, Raabe, H. Mann, Schnitzler, Seghers, Zweig, Wedekind,
Schopenhauer and Roth.
Djina Wilk
Exchange Students 2006-2007
Christoph Kasper (Mźnchen)
Jonas Meyer (UniversitŠt Siegen)
Christiane Neudorfer
Nico Schlšsser (Kšln)
Frizzi Strube (FU Berlin)
Valerie Wolf (Kšln)
Updated 2007 by patrick brugh and sandra marcu.
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