Faculty | Germanic Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Faculty, 2012-2013

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Welcome to the faculty page of the Department of Germanic Studies. Here you will find detailed listings of the faculty members of the department. The listings are divided into Continuing Faculty, Permanent Lecturers, & Emeritus Professors. Adjunct Faculty are also listed. For a complete list of office hours for all faculty, including Associate Instructors, please click here.

Continuing Faculty

Literature & Culture:

Claudia Breger

Associate Professor of Germanic Studies

Office: BH 669 \\ Hours: Tues. 2-3pm (Germanics Studies) Wed. 3-4pm (Gender Studies) & by appt.

Tel.: (812) 855-1894 \\ Email: clbreger@indiana.edu

Ph.D. Humboldt University

Fields of interest: 20th-century German literature and culture; gender studies, post-colonial studies, literary and cultural history, German film.

Claudia’s CV

Fritz Breithaupt

Professor of Germanic Studies and Director of Graduate Studies

Office: BH 655 \\ Hours: Mon. 11-12pm; MW 2:30-3:30pm & by appt.

Tel.: (812) 855-4551 or (812) 855-3280 \\ Email: fbreitha@indiana.edu

Ph.D. (1997, Johns Hopkins University)

Fields of interest: literature and cognitive science; empathy; narrative; German & European literature, philosophy, and culture since 1700; aesthetics; intellectual history of money, Goethe.

Fritz's CV

Fritz’s Web Page

Michel Chaouli

Associate Professor of Germanic Studies

Office: BH 660 \\ Hours: Thurs 3:00-5:00pm & by appt.

Tel.: (812) 855-8847 \\ Email: chaouli@indiana.edu

Director, The Institute of German Studies

Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley)

Fields of interest: literature and philosophy; phenomenlogical and cognitive approaches to fiction; embodied mind and the senses; aesthetic theory; literature starting around 1750.

Michel Chaouli’s Home Page

Hildegard Elisabeth Keller

Professor of Germanic Studies

Office: BH 657 \\ Hours: Tues. 2:45-3:45pm & by appt

Tel.: (812) 855-7611 \\ Email: hekeller@indiana.edu

Ph.D University of Zürich

Fields of interest: German literature, especially from the beginnings up to 1700 - mysticism in the Middle Ages and early modernity - medical history - historiography of the theatre - performative approaches to medieval literature

Hildegard’s CV

Hildegard's Webpage

William Rasch

Professor of Germanic Studies

Office: BH 654 / 644A \\ Hours: by appointment only

Tel.: (812) 855-8242 \\ Email: wrasch@indiana.edu

Ph.D. University of Washington/Seattle

Fields of interest: German philosophical tradition, especially social and political theory, from early modernity to the present. German literature within its historical and political context.

Bill’s CV

Bill's Web Page

Benjamin Robinson

Associate Professor of Germanic Studies

Office: BH 653 \\ Hours: Tues 11-12pm (UDGS: Mon. & Tues 2-4pm) & by appt.

Tel.: (812) 855-6887 \\ Email: bbrobins@indiana.edu

Ph.D. Stanford University

Fields of interest: 20th century and contemporary literature and culture, especially with respect to institutions of law, economics and science; modernism and socialism; questions of literary reference and realism, particularly as they are thought about in phenomenological and sociological traditions.

Ben's CV

Ben’s Web Page

Johannes Türk

Associate Professor of Germanic Studies

Office: BH 677 \\ Hours: Thurs. 11-12pm & by appt.

Tel.: (812) 855-1642 \\ Email: joturk@indiana.edu

Ph.D. Freie Universität Berlin

Fields of interest: Literary Theory, Aesthetic Theory, Rhetoric, Philosophy, The history of the German and the European Novel, Modernism, Literature and Life Sciences (especially Immunology), Trauma and Literature

Johannes's Web Page

Brigitta Wagner

Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies

Office: BH 678 \\ Hours: Fall Leave of Absence

Tel.: (812) 855-0679 \\ Email: bbwagner@indiana.edu

Ph.D. Harvard University, 2008

Fields of interest: 20th-21st century German culture; German film history, 1895-present; Berlin memory studies; post-unification film politics; European silent cinema; classical film theory; Cold War inter-German film relations; the city film and intersections of new media, cinema, and urban space; German multiculturalism; documentary theory and practice.

Brigitta's Web Page

Marc Weiner

Professor of Germanic Studies

Office: BH 668 \\ Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 1:00-2:00pm & by appt

Tel.: (812) 855-2033 \\ Email: weiner@indiana.edu

Ph.D. Stanford University

Fields of interest: 19th- & early 20th-century literary and cultural studies of Germany and Austria; Fin-de-Siècle Vienna; German and Austrian music, opera and ideology, history of racial and sexual iconographies, German-Jewish relations, German film, critical theory.

Marc’s CV

Marc’s Web Page

Adjunct:

Sander Gliboff — History & Philosophy of Science

Christopher Irmscher — English

Joshua Kates — English

Michelle Moyd — History

Eyal Peretz — Comparative Literature

Julia Roos — History

Mark Roseman — History, Jewish Studies

William E. Scheuerman — Political Science, Law

Sandra Shapshay — Philosophy

Jeffrey Veidlinger — History

Language Teaching Research:

Susanne Even

Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies

Office: BH 658 \\ Hours: Weds. 4:40-5:30pm & by appt

Tel.: (812) 855-7562 \\ Email: evens@indiana.edu

Ph.D. University College Cork, Ireland

Fields of interest: second/foreign language pedagogy, teacher training, innovative teaching approaches, drama in education for FL teaching and learning, intercultural and multilingual competence, bilingual novels, and curriculum development for higher education.

Susanne’s CV

Susanne's Web Page

Philology:

Kari Ellen Gade

Professor and Chair of Germanic Studies

Office: BH 676 \\ Hours: Mon. & Weds. 12:00-2:00pm & by appt.

Tel.: (812) 855-8138 \\ Email: gade@indiana.edu

Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Fields of interest: Old Norse-Icelandic language, literature, culture and history, together with Germanic philology, metrics, and linguistics. Professor Gade teaches courses on Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature (sagas), eddic, and skaldic Poetry, Old Norse poetic language, history of the Scandinavian languages, Old High German, Old Saxon, Gothic, runes and runic inscriptions, alliterative Meters, vikings and sagas.

Adjunct:

Rob Fulk — English

Germanic Linguistics:

Tracy Alan Hall

Professor of Germanic Studies

Office: BH 656 \\ Hours: MW 10:00-11:00 & by appt.

Tel.: (812) 855-1640 \\ Email: tahall2@indiana.edu

Ph.D. University of Washington

Fields of interest: General and Germanic linguistics, phonology, morphology, and historical linguistics.

Tracy’s CV

Rex A. Sprouse

Professor of Germanic Studies and Second Language Studies & Director of Undergraduate Studies

Office: BH 661 \\ Hours: by appt. only

Tel.: (812) 855-3248 \\ Email: rsprouse@indiana.edu

Adjunct Professor of Linguistics

Ph.D. Princeton University

Fields of interest: structure and history of the languages of Western Europe (Germanic, Romance, Celtic); second-language acquisition; syntactic theory.

Rex’s Web Page

Rex's Welcome and Advice Page

Department of Second Language Studies Web Page

Adjunct:

Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig — Second Language Studies

Laurent Dekydtspotter — French & Italian

Other Languages:

Dov-Ber Kerler

Yiddish \\ Professor of Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies

Office: BH 670 \\ Hours: by appt. only

Tel.: (812) 855-1951 \\ Email: dkerler@indiana.edu

Professor of Jewish Studies and Yiddish Language and Literature, Cohn Chair in Yiddish Studies

Ph.D. Oxford University

Fields of interest: history, dialectology, sociology, and the linguistic analysis of Yiddish; history of old Yiddish literature (15th to 18th century); Yiddish-Slavic linguistic and cultural contacts; Yiddish and modern Israeli Hebrew; Modern Yiddish poetry.

Gergana May

Norwegian \\ Coordinator for Norwegian Language & Culture

Office: BH 659 \\ Hours: W 1:30-2:30 & by appt

Tel.: (812) 855-1046 \\ Email: ggmay@indiana.edu

Senior Lecturer in Germanic Studies & West European Studies

Ph.D. University of Washington

Fields of interest: Norwegian language, Scandinavian literature and theatre, Ibsen and Strindberg, literary theory and criticism, translation for the theatre.

Norwegian Program Page

Gergana's CV

Esther Ham

Dutch \\ Coordinator for Dutch Language and Culture

Office: BH 667 \\ Hours: TR 1:00-2:00 & by appt.

Tel.: (812) 855-7173 \\ Email: eham@indiana.edu

Senior Lecturer in Germanic Studies and West European Studies

Doctorandus, Utrecht University

Fields of interest: second/foreign language pedagogy, intercultural communication, Frisian, citétaal, Afrikaans and anything related to South-Africa and elephants.

Adjunct:

Bieneke Haitjema

Permanent Lecturers:

Troy Byler

German Lecturer & Outreach Coordinator

Office: BH 675 \\ Hours: W 10:05-11:05 & by appt.

Tel.: (812) 855-7013 \\ Email: tbyler@indiana.edu

Dual MA, Indiana University

Fields of interest: language pedagogy, teacher training, workshop development and programming.

Troy's CV

Nikole Langjahr

Permanent Lecturer

Office: BH 675 \\ Hours: MWF by appt.

Tel.: (812) 855-7013 \\ Email: nilangja@indiana.edu

MA, University of Stuttgart

MAT, Indiana University

Fields of Interest: Language pedagogy, intercultural communication

Julia Lawson

Adjunct Lecturer

Office: BH 675 \\ Hours: TR 2:30-3:30 & by appt.

Tel.: (812) 855-7013 \\ Email: juklawso@indiana.edu

Julia's CV

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Emeritus Professors ↑

Theodore Andersson \\ Ph.D. (Yale University)

Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies

Fields of interest: Medieval Germanic languages, literatures, and cultures.

Frank G. Banta \\ Ph.D. (University of Bern)

Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies

Fields of interest: Germanic linguistics, Indo-European linguistics.

Office: BH 649

Tel.: (812) 855-1754

Hours: by appt.

Email: fbanta@indiana.edu

Peter Boerner \\ Ph.D. (University of Frankfurt)

Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and West European Studies

Fields of interest: eighteenth century European literature, Goethe, Franco German and Anglo German literary relations

Catherine Fraser \\ Ph.D. (University of Connecticut)

Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies

Fields of interest: language teaching and learning, Swedish literature.

Email: cfraser@indiana.edu

Ingeborg Hoesterey \\ Ph.D. (Harvard University)

Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Communicaton and Culture.

Fields of interest:20th century German literature, modernism & postmodernism in literature & the visual arts, new lit. theory. Professor Hoesterey studied art history in Berlin and literature at Harvard where she received her PhD in 1977. She is the author of Verschlungene Schriftzeichen: Intertexualität von Literatur und Kunst in der Moderne/Postmoderne (1988) and editor of Zeitgeist in Babel: The Postmodernist Controversy (1991), Neverending Stories: Towards a Critical Narratology (1992), as well as Intertextuality: German Literature and Visual Art (1993). A book-length study, Pastiche. Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature, was published by Indiana University Press in 2001. With her background in visual and literary studies, Professor Hoesterey focuses on interrelations of verbal and visual art in modernism/postmodernism. She also writes on critical theory, narratological problems as well as on 20th century German authors.

Albrecht Holschuh \\ Ph.D. (Princeton University)

Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies

Fields of interest: 20th-century German literature, poetry, and German studies.

Email: holschuh@indiana.edu

Ferdinand Piedmont \\ Ph.D. (University of Bonn)

Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies

Fields of interest: 18th-century literature (esp. Schiller), literature and the theater, teaching methodology.

Office: BH 649

Tel.: (812) 855-1754

Hours: by appt.

Email: piedmont@indiana.edu

William Z. Shetter \\ Ph.D. (University of California-Berkeley)

Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies

Fields of interest:

language and civilization of the Netherlands, medieval German literature, Germanic linguistics.

Scholarly work includes: Dutch: An Essential Grammar. 8th edition 2002. London and New York, Routledge.
The Netherlands in Perspective: The Dutch Way of Organizing a Society and its Setting. 2nd edition 2002. Utrecht, Nederlands Centrum Buitenlanders.

Office: BH 667

Tel.: (812) 855-7173

Hours: by appt.

Email: shetter@indiana.edu

Terence Thayer \\ Ph.D. (Harvard University)

Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies

Fields of interest: German literature since 1750, German poetry.

Office: BH 649

Tel.: (812) 855-1754

Hours: by appt.

Email: thayer@indiana.edu

Stephen L. Wailes \\ Ph.D. (Harvard University)

Professor of Germanic Studies

Fields of interest:

medieval and 16th-century German literature.

Stephen Wailes has published books on the didactic and religious poety of Der Stricker, on the allegorical tradition of interpreting Jesus’ parables in the Middle Ages, and on a group of Reformation dramas about wealth and poverty. His articles range from stylistic and rhetorical analyses in Middle High German to problems in the relations of history and literature during the sixteenth century, including studies of the Nibelungenlied, Hrotsvit von Gandersheim, Walter von der Vogelweide, Oswald von Wolkenstein, Hermann von Sachsenheim, Fortunatus, Hans Sachs, and Martin Luther.

Office: BH 649

Tel.: (812) 855-1754

Email: wailes@indiana.edu

Ulrich Weisstein \\ Ph.D. (Indiana University)

Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature

Fields of interest: drama, twentieth-century literature, Anglo-German literary relations.