Professors
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
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
Associate Professors
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, Chair
phess@austin.utexas.edu |
232-6352 |
BUR 336B
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
Jürgen Streeck
Associate Professor
jstreeck@austin.utexas.edu |
471-1955 |
CMA A7.136
Education: Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin
Lynn R Wilkinson
Associate Professor
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.
Assistant Professors
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, Utopias, Postcolonialism, Science Fiction
Senior Lecturers
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
Kerstin Somerholter
Language Program Director
somerholter@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)
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
Lecturers
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
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 |
512-471-1482 |
BUR 310
Education: M.A., Princeton University; Universität Potsdam, Germany
Interests: German literature since the long 19th century, Media Studies, History of Technology, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities
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
Professors Emeriti
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
