Home / LSA Students / Academics & Requirements / Faculty /

Germanic Languages and Literatures Faculty listing

3110 Modern Languages Building | 812 East Washington Street | (734) 764-8018 (phone) | (734) 763-6557 (fax) | www.lsa.umich.edu/german | e-mail: german.dept@umich.edu

Professor Scott Spector, Chair

Academics and Requirements

 Professors

Kathleen M. Canning  (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Sonya Rose Collegiate Professor of History), Modern Germany, modern European women and gender, labor and social movement

Geoff Eley (Sylvia L. Thrupp Collegiate Professor of Comparative History; Karl Port Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History), German history, modern Europe, historiography, cultural studies

Julia Hell, Twentieth-century German Literature and Culture; Literary and Cultural Theory; Psychoanalysis and Feminist Theory

Andrei S. Markovits (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Carl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of German and Comparative Politics, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), German and European Politics, Comparative Poliltical Sociology, Sociology of Culture and Sports

Helmut Puff(Richard Hudson Research Professor of History), Early Modern German Literature and History, Gender Studies

Scott Spector, Cultural History, Intellectual History, Film, German-Jewish Culture

George Steinmetz (Charles H. Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Germanic Languages and Literatures), Social Theory, Historical Sociology, German Colonialism, Political Sociology

Associate Professors

Vanessa Agnew, Postcolonial Studies, German and Music, Eighteenth-century German Literature, and Culture

Frederick Amrine (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Age of Goethe, Philosophy, Literature and Science

Kerstin Barndt, Weimar Culture; Museum Studies; Feminist Theory

Andreas Gailus, Literaure and Philosophy; German Literaure, 1770-1945; Textual Theory; Psychoanalysis

Kader Konuk, Comparative Literature, Turkish-German Studies, Postcolonial Studies

Peter M. McIsaac, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German and Austrian literature and culture; museum studies, history of science and medicine, gender

Robin Queen (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Sociolinguistics, Intonation, Language Contact, Bilingualism, Language and Gender, Germanic Linguistics

Johannes von Moltke, Film Theory, Cultural studies, and German Film History; connections between German Film and Popular Culture

Silke-Maria Weineck, Comparative literature, literary theory, aesthetics

Lecturers

Johanna Eriksson, Swedish Language, Literature, and Culture

Karl-Georg Federhofer, Foreign Language Acquisition, Contemporary Popular Culture

Maria Gull (Swedish Language, Norse Mythology)

Andrew Mills, 19^th-Century Literature, Contemporary German Culture

Hartmut Rastalsky, Language Pedagogy, Comparative Literature, Scientific German

Annemarie Toebosch, Dutch Language, Literature, and Culture

Janet VanValkenburg, Business German, 19^th-century Literature

Professors Emeriti

Roy C. Cowen, 19^th-century Drama, Naturalism, Hauptmann

Mary Crichton, Goethe, C.F. Meyer, 19th Century Poetry

Gerhard Dunnhaupt, 16th and 17th Century Literature

Werner Grilk, 19th-Century Literature, Drama, Bibliography

Erich Hofacker, Modern Literature, DDR Literature

Robert L. Kyes, Germanic Linguistics, Language Learning and Pedagogy

Robert Paslick, Modern Literature, Humanism, Mysticism

Hansjoerg Schelle, 18th Century Literature, Age of Goethe, Wieland, Classical Tradition, Poetics, Prose Analysis, Metrics

Ingo Seidler, Modern and Contemporary Literature, Theory of Literature

Hermann F. Weiss, Romanticism, 19^th-century Literature