Katherine Arens

Professor

arens@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-6363 |
BUR 320

Education: Ph.D., Stanford University, Dual PhD, German Studies and Humanities Special Programs, 1981

Interests: German Idealism, European Romanticism, Intellectual & cultural history (18th-20th centuries), literary & cultural theory, history of science, psychology, & the humanities, Austrian studies

Hans C. Boas

Department Chair, Professor; Raymond Dickson, Alton C. Allen and Dillon Anderson Centennial Professor; Director, Linguistics Research Center; Director, Texas German Dialect Project

hcb@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6358 |
BUR 328

Education: Ph.D., Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Interests: Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Computational Lexicography, Language Contact and Variation, Historical Linguistics, Pragmatics, Morphology, Phonology, Documentary Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Endangered Languages and Dialects, Foreign Language Education.

Sabine Hake

Professor, Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture

hake@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6379 |
BUR 332

Education: Ph.D., University of Hannover, Germany

Interests: Late-nineteenth and twentieth century German culture, German film and media, art and politics, fascist aesthetic, the modern metropolis, cultural theory

John Hoberman

Professor

hoberman@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6368 |
BUR 322

Education: Ph.D. Scandinavian Languages and Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Interests: European cultural and intellectual history with special interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of ideas about race

Jürgen Streeck

Professor

jstreeck@austin.utexas.edu |
471-1955 |
CMA A7.136

Education: Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin

Kirsten "Kit" Belgum

Associate Professor

belgum@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6375 |
BUR 324

Education: Ph.D., German, University of Wisconsin (Madison)

Interests: Nineteenth-Century German Studies, Popular Culture, Print Culture, Nationalism, German Realism, Travel literature

Pascale Bos

Associate Professor

pascalebos@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6373

Education: Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)

Interests: Post 45 German & German-Jewish, modern Dutch, and modern Jewish literature & culture; Holocaust; ethnic minorities in Europe; autobiography, cultural memory, trauma, race & gender, sexual violence in armed conflict.

Peter Hess

Associate Professor

phess@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6362 |
BUR 356

Education: Ph.D., German Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Interests: (1) Early modern German & European literary & cultural history (1450-1700), early modern globalization, poetics, rhetoric. (2) small countries in Europe, contemporary Switzerland.

Barbara Laubenthal

DAAD Adjunct Associate Professor

barbara.laubenthal@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6374 |
BUR 368

Education: PhD, University of Giessen

Interests: Immigration in Germany and Europe; reparation politics; memory studies

Marc Pierce

Associate Professor

mpierc@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6360 |
BUR 358

Education: Ph.D, Germanic Linguistics, University of Michigan

Interests: Historical linguistics, Germanic linguistics and philology, history of linguistics, phonology, Scandinavian studies

Lynn R Wilkinson

Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Women's and Gender Studies

lrw@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6370 |
BUR 360

Education: Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

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.

Kirkland A Fulk

Assistant Professor; Faculty Undergraduate Advisor

kafulk@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 364

Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Interests: Contemporary German literature and film; Critical Theory; Literature and Economics; Science Fiction; Pop Culture and Pop Music; Social Movements

Nicholas Henry

Assistant Professor

nhenry@austin.utexas.edu |
232 4355 |
BUR 330/BUR 310

Education: Ph.D., German Applied Linguistics and Language Sciences, Penn State University

Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Applied Linguistics / Language Pedagogy, Morphosyntax, Phonology / Prosody, Popular Music in German Culture

Sandra B Straubhaar

Senior Lecturer

sstraub@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6365 |
BUR 316

Education: Ph.D., German Studies and Humanities, Stanford University

Interests: Medieval Scandinavia, Postmodern Medievalism, Historical Linguistics

Kerstin Birkholz

Language Program Director

kbirkholz@utexas.edu |
5128920338 (cell, preferred) or 512 4714123 (office) |
BURDINE 372

Education: Ph.D. Germanic Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin

Interests: travel, tennis, reading, foreign films, hiking (Camino de Santiage de Compostela)

Yitskhok (Itzik) N. Gottesman

Faculty

itzikgottesman@utexas.edu |
917-930-0295 |
Burdine 308

Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993

Interests: Jewish folklore, Yiddish language and culture, folktale, folksong, East European Jewish folklife, Jewish American immigrant life

Rikke Cortsen

Faculty

rpcortsen@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6357 |
BUR376

Education: Ph.D., Comparative Literature and Modern Culture, University of Copenhagen

Interests: Danish Language and Culture, Scandinavian and Nordic Culture, Cultural Theory, Comics and Graphic Novels, Popular Culture, Theory and Practice

Karen Ewing

Faculty

Karen.ewing@utexas.edu

Smyth Johansson

Lecturer

smyth.johansson@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6366 |
BUR 308

Education: MA, University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Scandinavian Studies

James C Kearney

Faculty

james.kearney@austin.utexas.edu |
28140 |
Burdine 304

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas

Interests: blues guitar, horses, Texas Germans, Texas feuds, barbecue, Texas Indians, rafting, canoeing

Hannes Mandel

Faculty

hmandel@austin.utexas.edu |
512–232–6376 |
BUR 318

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University

Interests: German literature since the long 19th century, Media Studies, History of Technology, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities

Laura Snyder

Lecturer

laura.snyder@utexas.edu |
BUR 378

Vincent Vanderheijden

Lecturer

vdheijden@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6372 |
Burdine 380

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Foreign Language Pedagogy; Inter- and Transcultural Communicative Competence; Instructional Design and Curricular Development; Language Teacher Professional Development

Hubert P Heinen

Professor Emeritus

hubert.heinen@mail.utexas.edu |
471-4123 |
BUR 336

Education: Ph.D. Germanic Languages, University of Texas at Austin

Interests: German Language, Literature, & Culture; Medieval literature and culture; poetry and poetics

Robert King

Professor

rking@austin.utexas.edu |
923-3502 |
CAL 507

Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin

Hans-Bernhard Moeller

Associate Professor Emeritus

h-b.moeller@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6359 |
BUR 326

Education: Ph.D., German, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Interests: Comparative, intercultural media and genre studies, especially in Central European and German-American Contexts. Exile literature and exile film.

Robert R Mollenauer

Associate Professor Emeritus

mollenauer@mail.utexas.edu |
471-4123 |
BUR 336

Education: PhD, German, Indiana University

Interests: Romanticism, literature and music, detective fiction

Janet K Swaffar

Professor Emeritus

jswaffar@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6376 |
BUR 318

Education: Ph.D., German, University of Wisconsin (Madison)

Interests: German literature post 1945, German media, applications of literary theory to reading and writing in a foreign language, foreign language acquisition and advanced learners

John M Weinstock

Professor Emeritus

weinstock@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6369 |
BUR 354

Education: PhD, Indo-European Linguistics, Scandinavian Studies, University of Wisconsin (Madison)

Interests: Sami Culture & Civilization, Scandinavian Studies, Norwegian Language & Literature, Scandinavian Music, Scandinavian Linguistics, Old Norse Language & Literature, Wagner's Operas

Walter D Wetzels

Professor Emeritus

wwetzels@mail.utexas.edu |
471-4123 |
BUR 336

Education: PhD, German Literature, Princeton University

Interests: Age of Goethe, Romantic Science