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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: Andreas Huyssen, 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 Student Teaching: Richard Alan Korb, Ph.D.
311 Hamilton
Tel: 212.854.2070


Director of Graduate Studies (German): Dorothea von Muecke, Ph.D.
410 Hamilton
Tel: 212.854.1891


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:
Assistant Professor, Dr. Phil., University of Hamburg (Germany), 1998
Interests: German and European literary history from 1750 to 1930, cinema & media studies, literary theory, occultism, interrelations of literature and science, law and literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Kelly Barry:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2001
Interests: literature and aesthetics in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods; anthropology and literature; philosophical anthropology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jeremy Dauber:
Assistant Professor, Dr. Phil., Oxford, 1999
Interests: History of Yiddish literature, Jewish literature, Yiddish theater
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wijnie de Groot:
Lecturer, M.A., University of Amsterdam (Holland), 1982, 1985
Interests: Second language acquisition, foreign language methodology, Dutch literature, Dutch history and art history, 17th-century Dutch texts
Michael Eskin:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University (New Brunswick), 1998
Interests: Nineteenth- through twenty-first-century literature, post-World War II and contemporary poetry and culture, interdisciplinary and philosophical approaches to literature (ethics and literature, hermeneutics, semiotics), literary theory and criticism, the theory and practice of translation, the theory of fiction and narrative, continental philosophy, aesthetics, intellectual history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Aili Flint:
Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., Columbia, 1977
Interests: Finnish language and folklore; sociolinguistics and semantics
Miriam Hoffman:
Lecturer, M.A., Columbia, 1983
Interests: Yiddish etymological studies and folk lore
Andreas Huyssen:
Professor (Germanic Languages), Ph.D., Zurich, 1969
Interests: German literature and culture 18th-20th century, comparative modernisms, postmodernism, media studies, critical theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard Alan Korb:
Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1988
Interests: German language pedagogy
Dorothea von Muecke:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1988
Interests: The Romantic Fantastic, Eighteenth-century semiotics and aesthetics, paradigms of feminist scholarship, eigthteenth-century literature, literature and psychoanalysis, Enlightenment and visuality, Faust and media, Classical drama
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Harro Muller:
Professor, Habilatation, Bielefeld, 1979
Interests: German literature from the 18th-20th centuries, Theory of Literature, Critical Theory, Systems Theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Roskies:
Adjunct Professor (Jewish Theological Seminary), Brandeis University, 1975
Interests: Jewish literary history; war and literature; Yiddish literature; literature and folklore
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jutta Schmiers-Heller:
Lecturer, M.A., Munster University (Germany), 1996
Interests: Second language acquisition, computer assisted language instruction, foreign language methodology, materials development




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