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Peter Hess, Chair BUR 336, Mailcode C3300, Austin, TX 78712-0304 • 512-471-4123

Faculty List

Professors

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Katherine Arens

Professor

k.arens@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6363  |  BUR 320

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests

  German Idealism, European Romanticism, Intellectual & cultural history (18th-20th centuries), literary & cultural theory, history of science, psychology, & the humanities, Austrian studies

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Sabine Hake

Professor, Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture

hake@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6379  |  BUR 332

Interests

  German film, Weimar culture, modernism and the avant-garde, the culture of the metropolis, fascist aesthetics, working-class culture, Marxist theory

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John Hoberman

Professor

hoberman@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6368  |  BUR 322

Education   

Ph.D. Scandinavian Languages and Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Interests

  European cultural and intellectual history with special interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of ideas about race

Robert D King

Affiliate faculty

rking@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-9016  |  CAL 507

Education   

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
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Janet K Swaffar

Professor

jswaffar@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6376  |  BUR 318

Education   

Ph.D., German, University of Wisconsin (Madison)

Interests

  German literature post 1945, German media, applications of literary theory to reading and writing in a foreign language, foreign language acquisition and advanced learners

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John M Weinstock

Professor

weinstock@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6369  |  BUR 354

Education   

PhD, Indo-European Linguistics, Scandinavian Studies, University of Wisconsin (Madison)

Interests

  Sami Culture & Civilization, Scandinavian Studies, Norwegian Language & Literature, Scandinavian Music, Scandinavian Linguistics, Old Norse Language & Literature, Wagner's Operas

Associate Professors

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Zsuzsanna I Abrams

Associate Professor

zsabrams@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6374  |  BUR 358

Education   

Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona

Interests

  Applied Linguistics, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Computer-Mediated Communication, Teaching Culture

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Kirsten Belgum

Associate Professor

belgum@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6375  |  BUR 324

Education   

Ph.D., German, University of Wisconsin (Madison)

Interests

  Nineteenth-Century German Studies; Popular Culture, Print Culture, Nationalism, German Realism, Travel literature

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Hans C Boas

Associate Professor; Director, Texas German Dialect Project

hcb@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6358  |  BUR 328

Education   

Ph.D., Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Interests

  Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Computational Lexicography, Language Contact & Variation, Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Morphology, Endangered Languages, Phonology

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Pascale Bos

Associate Professor

pascale.r.bos@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6373  |  BUR 314

Education   

Ph.D., Comparative LIterature, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)

Interests

  Post 45 German & German-Jewish, modern Dutch, and modern Jewish literature & culture; Holocaust; ethnic minorities in Europe; autobiography, cultural memory, trauma, race & gender.

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Peter Hess

Associate Professor, Department Chair

phess@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6362  |  BUR 356

Education   

Ph.D., German Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Interests

  (1) Early modern German & European literary & cultural history, 1450-1750, history of science, gender issues, poetics, rhetoric. (2) small countries in Europe, Swiss literature & culture

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Werner Krauss

Adjunct Associate Professor (DAAD - Germanic Academic Exchange Service)

werner.krauss@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6372  |  BUR 380

Education   

Dr. phil., Social Anthropology, University of Hamburg

Interests

  The political ecology of landscapes, human-nature relationships and climate change with a special focus on European contexts; anthropology of Europe; science & technology studies

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Hans-Bernhard Moeller

Associate Professor

h-b.moeller@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6359  |  BUR 326

Education   

Ph.D., German, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Interests

  Comparative, intercultural media and genre studies, especially in Central European and German-American Contexts. Exile literature and exile film.

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Jürgen Streeck

Associate Professor

jstreeck@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-1955  |  CMA A7.136

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Lynn R Wilkinson

Associate Professor

lrw@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6370  |  BUR 360

Education   

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Interests

  Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European literature, culture, and film; women writers and women's and gender studies; literary and cultural theory; Scandinavian film.

Assistant Professors

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Philip M Broadbent

Assistant Professor

p.broadbent@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6371  |  BUR 364

Education   

Ph.D., German Literature, University College London

Interests

  20th century culture & literature (modernity, minority literature, drama); East & West German politics &culture; European modernisms, urban writing & theory, theories of alterity, memory & identity

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Marc Pierce

Assistant Professor

mpierc@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6360  |  BUR 368

Education   

Ph.D, Germanic Linguistics, University of Michigan

Interests

  Historical linguistics, Germanic linguistics and philology, history of linguistics, phonology, Scandinavian studies

Per Urlaub

Assistant Professor

urlaub@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-4355, (617) 501-4738  |  Burdine 330

Education   

Ph.D., German Studies, Stanford University

Interests

   (Literary) reading in the L2; transcultural hermeneutics; assessment of culture-centered L2 learning; creative writing and critical reading in the L2

Senior Lecturers

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Sandra B Straubhaar

Senior Lecturer

sstraub@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6365  |  BUR 316

Education   

Ph.D., German Studies and Humanities, Stanford University

Interests

  Medieval Scandinavia, Postmodern Medievalism, Historical Linguistics

Lecturers

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Stine S Nielsen

Lecturer

snielsen@austin.utexas.edu  |  232-6357  |  BUR 376

Interests

  Contemporary Scandinavian literature, Nationalism and nation building, the relationship between Norway and Denmark in relation to Norwegian nation building, Dyslexia

Professors Emeriti

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Frank E Donahue

Professor

donahue@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-6367  |  BUR 336

Education   

Ph.D., German, Pennsylvania State University

Interests

  Foreign Language Learning and Pedagogy, German Applied Linguistics, Teacher Training and Supervision

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Hubert P Heinen

Professor Emeritus

hubert.heinen@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-4123  |  BUR 336

Education   

Ph.D. Germanic Languages, University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Medieval literature, poetics, and culture; poetry

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J Christopher Middleton

Professor Emeritus

middleton@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-4123  |  BUR 336

Education   

D. Phil., Oxford University

Robert R Mollenauer

Associate Professor Emeritus

mollenauer@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-4123  |  BUR 336

Education   

PhD, German, Indiana University

Interests

  Romanticism, literature and music, detective fiction

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Thomas J O'Hare

Associate Professor Emeritus

tohare@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-4123  |  BUR 336

Education   

PhD, Linguistics and Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin
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George Schulz-Behrend

Professor Emeritus

pschulzbehren@austin.rr.com  |  471-4123  |  BUR 336

Education   

PhD, German Literature, State University of Iowa

Interests

  Baroque Literature

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Walter D Wetzels

Professor Emeritus

wwetzels@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-4123  |  BUR 336

Education   

PhD, German Literature, Princeton University

Interests

  Age of Goethe, Romantic Science

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