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Robert Adler Peckerar comes to CU from the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Comparative Literature. At Berkeley Adler Peckerar concentrated on Yiddish, Hebrew, and German literature and completed course work in Modern Standard and Levantine Arabic. He is a translator of Yiddish and Hebrew short fiction and poetry and also an avid watcher of television and film. Originally from the Washington, D.C. area, Adler Peckerar is moving to Boulder with his partner Naomi and five-year old son, Tomek.

Helmut Muller-Sievers (MA in German and Latin Literature, FU Berlin 1985, Ph.D. in German and the Humanities, Stanford 1990) is Professor of German. His work is concerned with the interrelations of literature, science, philosophy, and with the history of philology and interpretation. He is the author of:

• Epigenesis. Naturphilosophie im Sprachdenken Wilhelm von Humboldts.
• Self-Generation. Biology, Literature, Philosophy around 1800.
• Desorientierung. Anatomie und Dichtung bei Georg Büchner.

with articles in Modern Philology, Tobias Nanz, Bernhard Siegert , Staffan Müller-Wille, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger , and in Trajekte 16.

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Helga Luthers was interviewed by the History Channel for a new series they are producing on the various mythologies of the world. Topics of the interview were the Norse God Thor, Beowulf, and J.R.R. Tolkien and his work.

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