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Maximilian A. E. Aue
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies Department of Comparative Literature



  • Education:
    Ph.D. Stanford University, 1973
  • Research Interests:
    Contemporary Austrian Literature ­ Robert Musil, Literary Representation of Venice in German Literature after 1914. Wittgenstein.

  • Recent Publications:
    Ludwig Wittgenstein, LetzteSchriften über die Philosophie der Psychologie (Translator) 2006

  • Link to CV

  • Email: maue@emory.edu

    Office Hours:Mon 3-4 p.m. ,Tues and Thurs 3:30-4:30p.m. and by appointment
H. Erik Butler
Assistant Professor (on leave Fall 09)


  • Education:
    Ph.D. Yale University, 2001
  • Research Interests:
    Literature and film of the fantastic. Institutions and literatures of instruction in the Renaissance. Theory and history of minor literatures.

  • Recent Publications:
    Das Urgesicht: The Terrorist Aesthetics and Poetics of Modernism.” Pacific Coast Philology. Accepted; forthcoming 2010.
    “The Noble Savage and German Political Mythology of the North.”  North and Nordicity. Ed. Nicole Pissowotzki.  Accepted; forthcoming 2010.
    “Benjamin at the Barricades: The Arcades Project as Combat and Intrigue.” Glossator. Fall 2009. 1-20.


Office Hours: 10 a.m. - 11 a.m., Mon. Wed., and Fri.


 
Peter Höyng, Department Chair
Associate Professor



  • Education:
    Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Research Interests:
    German Literature and Culture since the 18th Century
    German-Jewish Culture since 1750
    Cultural History of Berlin in the 20th Century
    Genre Theory (Drama) and History of German Drama and Theater, Theater Censorship

  • Recent Publications:
    Die Sterne, die Zensur und das Vaterland; Geschichte und Theater im spaeten 18. Jahrhundert
     “'Laufet Brüder Eure Bahn’: Zur Geistverwandtschaft zwischen Schiller und Beethoven.” Monatshefte 97.3 (2005): 468-477.
    “Lessing’s Drama Theory.”A Companion to the Works of Lessing
    . Eds. Barbara Fischer and Thomas C. Fox. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2005. 211-229.
  • Link to CV
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  • Email: phoeyng@emory.edu
  • Office Hours: By appointment only 404.727.3598

     

Marianne Lancaster
Senior Lecturer
First Year Coordinator and FAME Advisor



  • Education:
    M.A. University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany 1986
  • Research Interests:
    Language Pedagogy, Language and Culture, Business German

  • Recent Presentation:
    Presenter "Intergrating and Using "Schaubilder" in Business German Class", CIBER Conference, Florida State University, April 2008

    Link to CV

  • Email: mlancas@emory.edu

    Office Hours: Mon. and Wed. 1 p.m. - 2 p.m., and by appointment

Hiram Maxim
Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies
Second Year Coordinator



  • Education:
    Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1999
  • Research Interests:
    Second Language Acquisition/Intertextuality in L2 Reading and Writing/Curriculum Construction/Foreign Cultural Literacy

  • Recent Publications:
    “Taking Text to Task: Issues and Choices in Curriculum Construction.” (with Heidi Byrnes, Cori Crane, Katherine Sprang). Special issue on task-based learning in the ITL International Journal of Applied Linguistics 152 (2006): 85-110.
    "Integrating Textual Thinking into the Introductory College-level Foreign Language Classroom." Modern Language Journal 90
    (2006): 19-32
    “Giving Beginning Adult Language Learners a Voice:  A Case for Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom.”  In Poetry and Pedagogy, Joan Retallack and Julianna Spahr (Eds.).  New York:  St. Martins/Palgrave, 2006. 251-259. (refereed).
  • Link to CV
  • Email: hmaxim@emory.edu
  • Link to Website

    Office Hours: on leave

James V. H. Melton
Professor


  • Education:
    Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1982
  • Research Interests:
    Enlightenment Europe, early modern German and Habsburg History, Atlantic World.

  • Recent Publications:
    The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2001); Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria (Cambridge University Press, 1988); editor, Cultures of Communication from Reformation to Enlightenment: Constructing Publics in the Early Modern German Lands (Ashgate, 2002); Paths of Continuity: Historical Scholarship in Central Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1994); coeditor and translator of Otto Brunner, Land and Lordship: Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992).
  • Link to CV

  • Email: jmelt01@emory.edu

    Office Hours: Mon 2:00-3:00pm

Caroline Schaumann
Associate Professor


  • Education:
    Ph.D. University of California at Davis, 1999
  • Research Interests:
    Postwar and post-Wall German literature and culture; German-Jewish literature; Representations of the Holocaust; Exploration and mountaineering literature and film; Language pedagogy

  • Recent Publications:
    Memory Matters: Generational Responses to Germany's Nazi Past in Recent Women's Literature. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, May 2008.
    “‘A Different Family Story:’ German Wartime Suffering in Women's Writing by Wibke Bruhns, Ute Scheub, and Christina von Braun.” Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic. Ed. Stuart Taberner and Karina Berger. Rochester: Camden House, 2009.
Miriam Udel
Assistant Professor

  • Education:
    Ph.D. Harvard University, 2008
  • Research Interests:
    Yiddish literature and culture; secularization and
    the novel; American-Jewish literature; the novel's ethical engagement;
    modernist poetry; the comparative study of literary genres and forms.

  • Recent Publications:


    Link to CV

  • Email: @emory.edu

    Office Hours: Mon and Wed 11:40am-12:40pm, or by appointment.

Erdmann F. Waniek
Associate Professor


  • Education:
    Ph.D. University of Oregon, 1972
  • Research Interests:
    18 th through 20 th Century Literature, Sociology and Theory of Literature and the Arts, Relation between the Arts, the process of reading.
  • Recent Publications:
    Un Jueho Peligroso: La Busqueda del Autor en (Joc de Miralls) Carme Riera”. Alba de America, co-author, Cristina de la Torre. 1997
  • Link to CV

  • Email: langew@emory.edu

    Office Hours: Thursdays 11:00am-1:00pm and by appointment

Viola Westbrook
Senior Lecturer
(on leave 2009-2010)


  • Education:
    M.A. Emory University 1973
  • Research Interests:
    Language Pedagogy, Phonetics, Modern German Literature, Cultural Studies
  • Recent Publications:
    Workbook/CD Program for Second Year German to accompany: Der Besuch der alten Dame, F. Dürrenmatt, Abendliche Häuser, Kayserling (co-authored with Ingrid Wieshofer)
    Berlin liegt doch am Rhein – oder ?“ presented at IDV, 2005.

  • Link to CV

  • Email: langvw@emory.edu

    Office Hours: by appointment

Katharina Babczyk
Teaching Assistant


  • Education:BA American Studies, currently pursuing a Masters Degree
  • Research Interests: Literature from 16th century to current Linguistics, Syntax, Morphology, language acquisition, grammaticalization

  • Email: kbabczy@emory.edu

    Office Hours: Monday and Friday "Almost all day", Tuesday 2:15pm - 4:00pm & after 6:00pm, Wednesday 2:00pm - 4:00pm & after 5:00pm, Thursday 2:15pm - 3:00pm & after 4:00pm

   

 

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Marion Hughes
Academic Department Administrator


  • Contact:
    Modern Languages Building 202A
    532 Kilgo Circle
    Atlanta, GA 30322
    Tel: 404.727.6439
  • Responsibilities:
    Course Atlas
    Annual Report
    Invoices
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    Book orders
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  • Email: mhughe4@emory.edu

     

Anna Jakowska
Volunteer


  • Contact:
    117 Trimble Hall
    637 Asbury Circle
    Atlanta, GA 30322
    Tel: 404.727.6439

    Responsibilities:
    Support Staff

     



Affiliated Faculty by Departments

Department of Art History

Department of Comparative Literature

Department of Film Studies

Department of History

Institute of the Liberal Arts

Department of Music

Department of Philosophy

Department of Poltical Science

Tam Institute for Jewish Studies

 

 

 

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