Graduate Students
Irene DeHan. Cultural studies, especially post-colonialism and Eurocentrism; Walter Benjamin's Concepts of History.
Foteini Garefalakis. The writings of Christa Wolf in relation to gender, politics, and myth; twentieth-century German-language Drama.
Sita Hessenbruch. Literature by Franz Kafka; Berlin; the role of German in academe.
Tom Hildebrandt. Socio-historical development of Bavaria as a political territory and socio-linguistic aspects of Bavarian dialect; political and cultural applications of Marxism in the DDR.
Audrey Joyner. Historical developments, trends, and movements of German-language literature; new historicism.
Susanne Kies. German-language literature in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth centuries.
Susan Kight. Mother-daughter relationship in literature; Nationalism; contemporary women writers.
Jenny Kummerle. Foreign Language Pedagogy in secondary education; Medieval literature; post-colonialism.
Sylvia Naylor. Nineteenth-century German-language Novelle; twentieth-century women writers (esp. Christa Wolf); gender studies; terrorism in Germany in the 1970s and today as cultural and political phenomena.
Thomas Neumann. Mittelhochdeutsch; Hartmann von Aue and his contemporaries; learning and teaching German as a second language.
Uche Okafor. Post-colonialism; Germany and Africa.
Katharina Rudolf. Thematic parallelisms between different literary eras, such as the role of “the other” and social pressure; literature in the “gray zones” of German history, such as Weimar Republic, Third Reich, GDR and young FRG.
John Thomas. Thirty Years War in Germany and its relevance to contemporary America.
Christopher Trimble. Etymology, philology; dialects; the works of Franz Kafka.
Christina Wall. Twentieth-century literature; Ingeborg Bachmann; film studies; romanticism.
Elke Wojan. The dynamics of history, text, and culture; the presentation of individual and subjective motivation; gender studies; Germany in global contexts.
Congratulations to our 2008 graduates!
Cerue Diggs (PhD)Cauleen Gary (PhD)
Stefanie Harrington (MA)
Robert Parker (MA)