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Professors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Jürgen Streeck

Associate Professor

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

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

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

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

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

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