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Maximilian A. E. Aue
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies Department of Comparitive 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: TTh 1:30-2:30 or by appointment
H. Erik Butler
Assistant Professor


  • 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:
    Dr. Mabuse: Terror and Deception of the Image. German Quarterly 78.4 2006.
    Empires of Future Past: Justus Georg Schottelius and the Bellum Grammaticale. FMLS, Special Issue on Conjectural Histories, Fall 2006.

  • Link to CV

  • Email: hbutle2@emory.edu

Office Hours: Wed. 10:00-12:00pm walk-ins welcome

Ganeshan, Vridhagiri
Visiting Instructor


  • Education:
    Ph.D. Munich University, Germany 1972
  • Research Interests:
    History of Modern German Literature

  • Recent Publications:

    Link to CV

  • Email: vganesh@emory.edu

    Office Hours: Mon. 1:15-3:15

Peter Höyng
Associate Professor & Chair



  • 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

     

 

Monika Johnston
Visiting Instructor



  • Education:
    M.A. German Studies and Japanese Studies Universität Tuebingen, Germany, 1993

 

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. 2:00-2:50pm Tues. 10:30-11:20pm

Hiram Maxim
Department Chair
Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies



  • 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: Mon., Wed. 10:30-12:00pm and by appt.

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: not available until Spring 2009 semester

Caroline Schaumann
Assistant 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.” Forthcoming: ‘Germans as Victims’ in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic. Ed. Stuart Taberner and Karina Berger. Rochester: Camden House, 2008.
Miriam Udel-Lambert
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: Not available until Spring 2009 semester

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: Tues. 9:30-11:30am

Viola Westbrook
Senior Lecturer
Second Year Coordinator


  • 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: Mon. 4:00-6:00pm or by appt.

Kristina Gugerbauer
Teaching Assistant


  • Education:
    M.A. Journalism University of Applied Sciences, Vienna, Austria
  • Research Interests:
    American Politics, Broadcast Journalism, Teaching: Foreign Languages
  • Email: kgugerb@emory.edu

     

Staff

Silke Delamare
Academic Department Administrator


  • Contact:
    115 Trimble Hall
    637 Asbury Circle
    Atlanta, GA 30322
    Tel: 404.727.3598
  • Responsibilities:
    Alumni
    Budget
    Faculty/Staff
    Newsletter
    Majors/Minors
    Study Abroad
    Website

  • Email: sdelama@emory.edu

     

Marion Hughes
Program Administrative Assistant


  • Contact:
    115 Trimble Hall
    637 Asbury Circle
    Atlanta, GA 30322
    Tel: 404.727.3598
  • Responsibilities:
    Course Atlas
    Annual Report
    Invoices
    Grade and class rosters
    Book orders
  • 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 French & Italian

Department of History

Institute of the Liberal Arts

Department of Music

Department of Philosophy

Department of Poltical Science

Department of Sociology

Tam Institute for Jewish Studies

 

 

 

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