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Leslie A. Adelson:*Professor and Director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies. German literature from 1945 to the present; literatures of migration; postcolonial theory and German Studies; Jewish Studies; literary theory, social theory, and cultural history; feminist theory and women's literature. Address: 188 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 255-8540; Email: laa10@cornell.edu

Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm
: Lecturer in Swedish. Scandinavian studies, applied linguistics and second/foreign language studies; computer-assisted and technology-enhanced language learning; affective and social aspects of language and linguistic interaction; language technologies. Address: G71 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone (607) 254-6574; Email: eoa5@cornell.edu

David Bathrick:*Professor Emeritus. Twentieth-century German literature/culture; cultural theory; history/theory of cinema; history/theory of theatre; Holocaust Studies; GDR and Weimar culture. Editor of New German Critique. Address: 183 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 255-5265; Email: db17@cornell.edu

Bonnie Buettner: Visiting Senior Lecturer in German (fall 2009). Language pedagogy; medieval German literature; nineteenth- and twentieth-century drama. Address: G77 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 255-3394; Email: bcg3@cornell.edu

Herbert Deinert: Professor Emeritus. German literature and intellectual history since Luther. Address: 180 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 255-8356; Email: hd11@cornell.edu

Peter Gilgen:(on leave spring 2010) *Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. Eighteenth- to twentieth-century literature and philosophy; literary theory; media theory. Address: 192 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 254-3312; Email: pg33@cornell.edu

Anna Glazova : Mellon Postdoctoral Associate. Address: 192 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 255-8355; Email: ag656@cornell.edu

Arthur Groos:*Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities. Medieval literature; early modern city culture; German and Italian opera; history of science. Editor of Cambridge Opera Journal. Address: 182 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 255-8354; Email: abg3@cornell.edu

Peter Uwe Hohendahl: *Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German and Comparative Literature: eighteenth- to twentieth-century German literature; intellectual history; literary and social theory; comparative literature. Address: 193 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone:(607) 255-8353; Email: puh1@cornell.edu

Chrissy Hosea: Lecturer in Dutch. Netherlandic Language and Culture; Applied linguistics: Second language acquisition; Language pedagogy; Listening comprehension & Speech perception; General linguistics, especially: Dutch, Frisian & Indonesian. Address: G67 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 254-6576; Email: ch534@cornell.edu

Gunhild Lischke
: Senior Lecturer in German, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Language Program Director. Second language acquisition; applied linguistics, and professional development for language teachers; sociocultural theory; discourse analysis; German business culture. Address: G75 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 255-0725; Email: gl15@cornell.edu

Grit Matthias: Lecturer in German. Address: G69 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 254-6578. Email: gm326@cornell.edu

Brent McBride: Senior Lecturer in German.

Patrizia McBride: *Associate Professor and Acting Director of Graduate Studies. 18th to 20th-century literature and culture; modernism and theories of modernity; the intersection of literary theory, philosophy, and political theory; visual studies; Austrian literature and culture, especially fin-de-siècle Vienna. Address: 186 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 255-8323. Email:pcm29@cornell.edu

Anette Schwarz: *Associate Professor and Department Chair. Romanticism; Realism; twentieth century; literary theory; psychoanalysis; philosophy of language. Address: 185 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 255-7670; Email: as163@cornell.edu

Geoffrey C. W. Waite:*Associate Professor. Philosophy and philosophical approaches to literary, cultural, and political theory; Marxism; linguistics; psychoanalysis; visual culture; Spinoza and the New Spinozism; Nietzsche; Gramsci; Heidegger; Lacan; Althusser. Address: 191 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 255-8357; Email: gcw1@cornell.edu

German Studies Emeritus Faculty

Anne Adams , emerita: Africana Studies: Dutch Creole dialectology.

David Bathrick,
emeritus:
Twentieth-century German literature/culture; cultural theory; history/theory of cinema; history/theory of theatre; Holocaust Studies

Herbert Deinert, emeritus: German literature and intellectual history since Luther.

Herbert L. Kufner, emeritus: German dialectology; German language pedagogy; tratidional grammar; contrastive linguistics.

E. Rosenberg, emeritus: Comparative Literature and English Literature.

Cornell Faculty with Interests in German Studies

*S. Buck-Morss, Government: German political philosophy, Marx to Benjamin.

A. Chignell, Philosophy.

W. Goehner, Architecture.

S. Hamilton, Human Development and Family Studies.

*W. Harbert, Germanic linguistics: syntactic theory; Welsh.

*I. V. Hull, History: Eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century German political, legal, and institutional history; sexuality and gender.

*P. Katzenstein, Government: Political structure and economy of central Europe; Germany and European Union.

*M. Kosch, Philosophy: 19th and 20th-century German & Danish Philosophy.

D. LaCapra, History.

J. Monroe, Comparative Literature.

C. Otto, Architecture.

*A. Richards , Music. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music criticism and aesthetics; performance theory and practice; C.P.E. Bach; intersections between music and visual culture.

*J. Webster, Music: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music; opera; music historiography; musical aesthetics.

N. Zaslaw, Music.

* Member of the Graduate Field of Germanic Studies

Administrative Staff

Miriam Zubal. Address: 183 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 255-4047; Email: mz17@cornell.edu

Gisela Podleski. Address: 183 Goldwin Smith Hall; Telephone: (607) 255-5265; Email:gp13@cornell.edu


For more information, send e-mail to: germanic_studies@cornell.edu or visit the Cornell University home page. This site was created by M. Duncan. Last modified: 10/7/2009.