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Department of Germanic Languages


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Department Chair: Dorothea von Mücke, Ph.D.
319 Hamilton
Tel: 212.854.3202


Director of Graduate Studies (Yiddish): Jeremy Dauber, Dr. Phil.
414 Hamilton
Tel: 212.854.9608


Director of Graduate Studies (German): Andreas Huyssen, Ph.D.

Director of Graduate Student Teaching: Richard Alan Korb, Ph.D.
311 Hamilton
Tel: 212.854.2070


Faculty

Mark Anderson:
Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1985
Interests: Kafka, European modernism, German-Jewish culture, theory and practice of translation, postwar German and Austrian literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Stefan Andriopoulos:
Associate Professor, Dr. Phil., Hamburg, 1998
Interests: German and European literary history from 1750 to 1930, cinema and media studies, literary theory, occultism, interrelations of literature and science, law and literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jeremy Dauber:
Associate Professor, Dr. Phil., Oxford, 1999
Interests: History of Yiddish literature, Jewish literature, Yiddish theater
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wijnie de Groot:
Lecturer, M.A., Amsterdam, 1982, 1985
Interests: Second language acquisition, foreign language methodology, Dutch literature, Dutch history and art history, 17th-century Dutch texts
Miriam Hoffman:
Lecturer, M.A., Columbia, 1983
Interests: Yiddish etymological studies and folk lore
Andreas Huyssen:
Professor, Ph.D., Zurich, 1969
Interests: German literature and culture of the 18th-20th centuries, comparative modernisms, postmodernism, media studies, critical theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard Alan Korb:
Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1988
Interests: German language pedagogy
Verne Moberg:
Lecturer, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984
Interests: 19th and 20th century Scandinavian literature, women's studies, gay history, and translation
Dorothea von Mücke:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1988
Interests: The Romantic Fantastic, Eighteenth-century semiotics and aesthetics, paradigms of feminist scholarship, eighteenth-century literature, literature and psychoanalysis, Enlightenment and visuality, Faust and media, Classical drama
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Harro Müller:
Professor, Habilitation, Bielefeld, 1979
Interests: German literature of the 18th-20th centuries, theory of literature, critical theory, systems theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jutta Schmiers-Heller:
Lecturer, M.A., Munster, 1996
Interests: Second language acquisition, computer assisted language instruction, foreign language methodology, materials development
Lasse Suominen:
Lecturer, M.A., Tampere, 1990
Interests: Finnish language and pedagogy
Tobias Wilke:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 2008
Interests: German literature of the 19th and 20th centuries; media history and media theory; European avant-garde movements; interrelations of aesthetics and empirical psychology; poetics of affect




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