German Program Faculty

19th & 20th C. German and French literature. History and theory of the avant-garde. Critical theory. Modern and contemporary art.

Second language acquisition. Literature, art, and creative writing in the language classroom. Contemporary Germany.

German Literature and Culture from the 18th century to the present; literary theory; history and theory of scientific cultures.

SLA, Interculturality, Holistic Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, German-Americana, Anabaptism and Pietism.

Afro- and Black German cultural production, Germanic medieval literature and culture, beguine mysticism, queer theory of affect, aesthetics, and phenomenology, antiracist pedagogy, decolonization and/in German studies.

Literature, science, philosophy, and the history of philosophy and interpretation.

18th and 19th-century German and Norwegian literature and culture. Fairy tales and folklore. Lessing and the Enlightenment. Disability studies.

19th century German Romanticism, Political Romanticism, Romantic nationalism and populism. Romantic nihilism.

Literature and culture from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries and their points of intersection with the German philosophical tradition since Kant.

critical race studies; gender and sexuality studies; immigrant and refugee art, film and literature