Zsuzsanna Abrams, Associate Professor
Office: EPS 3.162; Phone: 512-232-6374, zsabrams@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Applied Linguistics, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Computer-Mediated Communication, Teaching Culture

Katherine Arens, Professor
Office: EPS 3.128; Phone: 512-232-6363, k.arens@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
German Idealism, European Novel since the 18th Century, European Romanticism, Intellectual and history (18th-20th century, Germany and Austria), literary and cultural theory, history of science and history of the philosophy of science (nineteenth and twentieth centuries), history of psychology, history and theory of the humanities, women's and gender studies, eighteenth- through twentieth century germanophone literatures, Austrian studies

Kirsten Belgum, Associate Professor, Director of the Center for European Studies
Office: EPS 3.164; Phone: 512-232-6375, belgum@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Nineteenth-century German Studies; Popular Culture, Print Culture, Nationalism, German Realism, Travel literature

Cora Bender, Assistant Professor, DAAD Adjunct Assistant Professor (Fall 2008 only)
Office: 3.156; Phone: 232-6372

Hans C. Boas, Associate Professor, Director, Texas German Dialect Project
Office: EPS 3.112; Phone: 512-232-6358, hcb@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Computational Lexicography, Language Contact and Variation (focus on Texas German), Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Morphology, Endangered Languages and Dialects, Foreign Language Education, Phonology, Forensic Linguistics, Language Planning, Intercultural Communication, and History and Philosophy of Linguistics.

Texas German Dialect Project

Pascale Bos, Associate Professor
Office: EPS 3.160; Phone: 512-232-6373, pascale.r.bos@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Post 45 German and German-Jewish literature and culture, modern Dutch literature and culture, modern Jewish literature, history, and culture in Western Europe and U.S., Holocaust in literature, film, and history, ethnic minorities in Western Europe, theoretical perspectives on autobiography, cultural memory, trauma, race and gender.

Philip Broadbent, Assistant Professor
Office: EPS 3.154; Phone: 232-6371, p.broadbent@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
20th century culture and literature (modernity, minority literature, drama); East and West German politics and culture; European modernisms, comparative literature, literary theory, urban writing and theory, theories of alterity, memory and identity

Frank Donahue, Professor
Office: EPS 3.136; Phone: 512-232-6367, donahue@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Foreign Language Learning and Pedagogy, German Applied Linguistics, Teacher Training and Supervision.

Sabine Hake, Professor, Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture
Office: EPS 3.134; Phone: 512-232-6379, hake@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
German film, Weimar culture, modernism and the avant-garde, the culture of the metropolis, fascist aesthetics, working-class culture, Marxist theory.

Peter Hess, Associate Professor
Office: EPS 3.126; Phone: 512-232-6362, phess@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
(1) Early modern German and European literary and cultural history from 1450 to 1750, history of science, early modern gender issues, poetics, rhetoric. (2) European Studies, small countries in Europe, Swiss literature and culture.

John Hoberman, Professor, Chair, Department of Germanic Studies
Office: EPS 3.148; Phone: 512-232-6368, hoberman@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
A European cultural and intellectual historian with special interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of ideas about race. His books are Sport and Political Ideology (1984), The Olympic Crisis: Sport, Politics, and the Moral Order (1986), Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport (1992), and Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race (1997). He has published almost a hundred sports commentaries in American newspapers and magazines and in Der Spiegel.

Werner Krauss, Associate Professor, (DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service)
Office: EPS 3.156; Phone: 512-232-6372, werner.krauss@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Anthropology of Europe (European Union, Europeanization, cultural politics, national identity); Anthropology of Landscapes and Heritage (landscape theory; culture, environment and identity); Political Ecology (politics of nature; climate change, catastrophes; environmental conflicts, national parks, nature/culture; wind energy); Cultural Studies and Anthropological Theory (ethnographic methods; discourse theory, multi-sited ethnography; narration, writing culture); Science and Technology Studies (actor-network-theory); Anthropology of Sport

Hans-Bernhard Moeller, Associate Professor
Office: EPS 3.114; Phone: 512-232-6359, h-b.moeller@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Comparative, intercultural media and genre studies, especially in Central European and German-American Contexts. Exile literature and exile film.

Stine Nielsen, Lecturer
Office: 3.110, Office Hours: MW 3-4.30; Phone: 512-232-6357, snielsen@austin.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Contemporary Scandinavian literature, Nationalism and nation building, the relationship between Norway and Denmark in relation to Norwegian nation building, Dyslexia

Marc Pierce, Assistant Professor
Office: EPS 3.122; Phone: 512-232-6360, mpierc@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Historical linguistics, Germanic linguistics, history of linguistics, phonology, Scandinavian studies, medieval Germanic studies.

Marc Rathmann, Lecturer
Office: EPS 3.130; Phone: (512) 232-6366, mrathmann@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Business German, Anglo-American influence on German language and culture, German image of America (media), German politics, intercultural communication

Sandra Straubhaar, Lecturer
Office: EPS 3.132; Phone: 512-232-6365, sstraub@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Medieval Scandinavia, Postmodern Medievalism, Historical Linguistics

Janet Swaffar, Professor
Office: EPS 3.166, Office Hours: MW 10-11; Phone: 512-232-6376, jswaffar@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Modern German literature post 1945, German media, applications of literary theory to reading and writing in a foreign language, the effects of structured tasks on foreign language acquisition and attitudes of learners at advanced levels

John Weinstock, Professor
Office: EPS 3.150; Phone: 512-232-6369, weinstock@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Sami Culture and Civilization, Promotion of Scandinavian Studies in the U.S., Norwegian Language and Literature, Scandinavian Music, Scandinavian Linguistics, Old Norse Language and Literature, General and Historical Linguistics, Scandinavian Music.

Lynn Wilkinson, Associate Professor
Office: EPS 3.152; Phone: 512-232-6370, lrw@mail.utexas.edu
Research 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.

Robert King, Professor, Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies
Office: CAL 501; Phone: 512-471-1701, rking@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Current research and publication interests are three: the Yiddish language, especially in relation to what it tells us about Jewish history; the politics of language in general; and, third, the language politics of India in particular. The thread that runs through my current work is the relationship among language, ethnicity, nationhood, and politics in the largest sense of the word. The German language im Ausland offers rich opportunities for research along these lines.

Jürgen Streeck, Associate Professor
Office: CMA 7.136; Phone: 512-471-1955, jstreeck@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
Jürgen Streeck studies human interaction in everyday life. He is particularly interested in the relationships between linguistic and embodied components (multimodality) and in the cultural foundations of communication. He has conducted fieldwork in Germany, the Philippines, and the U.S. Dr. Streeck also studies how rappers have re-invented language and how a new community, the 'hip-hop nation', has evolved from new ways of using languages.