Faculty

Lutz Koepnick
Chair, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures
Professor of German, Film and Media Studies, and Comparative Literature
Director of Graduate Studies
19th - 21st Century German Literature and Culture, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Film, Film/Media Theory, Intellectual History
Matt Erlin
Associate Professor of German
18th and 19th Century German Literature and Culture, Aesthetic Theory, Economics and Literature, Philosophies of History, Urban Culture
Jennifer Kapczynski
Associate Professor of German
Göttingen Program Contact
Tübingen Program Contact
19th to 21st-century Literature, Film Studies, Gender Theory, Nationalism, War & Representation
Paul Michael Lützeler
Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities
Director of Max Kade Center
Contemporary Discourses in the Humanities, Contemporary German Literature, Exile Literature 1933-45, German and European Romanticism, Literature and Culture of the 1920s
Erin McGlothlin
Associate Professor of German
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director of Research and Grants, Center for the Humanities
Autobiography, Literature of the Holocaust, Narrative theory, Postwar and Contemporary German and German-Jewish Literature, the Graphic Novel
Eva-Maria Russo
Specialist in Foreign Language Pedagogy
18th Century Literature, Bourgeois Tragedy, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Gender Studies, Love / Violence / Humor
Lynne Tatlock
Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Director, Committee on Comparative Literature
Book History, Gender Studies and Women's Writing, History of the Novel, Literature and Medicine, Literature and Society, Nationalism, Reading Cultures, Regionalism, Translation and Cultural Mediation
Sarah Westphal-Wihl
Associate Professor of German
Communities of Traditional Catholic Piety in the Age of Enlightenment, Legal Contexts of Medieval German Narrative, The Hapsburg Princess Kunigunde of Bavaria (+1520) and Female Biography in the Early Modern Period, Wild Women and Amazons--Gender in German Medieval Court Culture, Women and the Culture of the Medieval Book
Gerhild Williams
Vice Provost
Barbara Schaps Thomas and David M. Thomas Professor in the Humanties in Arts and Sciences
Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Early Modern German and French Literature, Magic/Daemonlogies/Witch Theory, Media and Culture, Reformation Movements, Translation Theory and Practice, Travel Narratives, Volksbuch/Novel