- Faculty, Language Program, and Visitors
- Graduate Students
- Staff
Marc Caplan, Assistant Professor Rochelle Tobias, Professor and Section Head
Areas of interest: Modern literature, Literary theory, Comparatist studies, History of German-Jewish culture, Paul Celan
profile email Katrin Pahl, Assistant Professor
Areas of interest: German Idealism and Romanticism, gender studies, feminist literary theory
profile email Eckart Forster, Professor of Philosophy
Areas of interest: Metaphysics, history of philosophy, Kant and German Idealism
profile email Lieselotte E. Kurth, Professor Emerita
email Hent deVries, Professor (Humanities Center)
Areas of interest: Modern European thought, history and critique of metaphysics, philosophies of religion, political theologies, concepts of violence, literature and temporality
email Peter Jelavich, Professor (History)
Areas of interest: Cultural and intellectual history of Europe since the Enlightenment, with emphasis on Germany
profile email Sue Waterman, Resource Librarian
Librarian for German and Romance Languages and Literature, Eisenhower Library. Research methodology for graduate studies, the history of the printed book
email LANGUAGE PROGRAM Deborah McGee Mifflin, Lecturer and Coordinator of German Language Instruction
Areas of interest: Pedagogy of language teaching, theories of second language acquisition
profile email Heidi Wheeler, Lecturer and Vice Coordinator of German Language Instruction
Areas of interest: Intermediate and advanced-level German, technology and language acquisition
email Donald Clark, Senior Lecturer
email Wolfram Groddeck, Visiting Professor (University of Basel)
Areas of interest: German literature from Romanticism to present, Hölderlin, Heine, Nietzsche, Walser, Swiss literature, Rhetoric, Textual philology
email Klaus Haberkamm, Visiting Professor (University of Münster)
Areas of interest: History and theory of emblems, Rhetoric, Contemporary literature (Dürrenmatt, Frisch, Grass)
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Uwe Hebekus (University of Konstanz), Visiting Professor Fall 2006
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Christophe Menke, Visiting Professor Gerhard Neumann, Visiting Professor Spring 2006
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Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Visiting Professor Spring 2007 Thomas Schestag, Visiting Professor 2007/2008 Academic year
email Klaus Weimar, Visiting Professor (University of Zürich)
Areas of interest: German literature from the 18th-century to the present; hermeneutics and literary theory, history and systematics of literary study, Klopstock, Goethe, Jean Paul, Brentano
Hopkins email Zurich email Beatrice Caplan, (Language Program)
Viola Kolarov, Mellon Fellow, 2006-2008
Joshua Gold, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-2007
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Josh Alvizu
email Christiane Arndt
Christiane Arndt has studied German and Philosophy at the Rheinische-Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the University of Durham, UK. She holds a degree in secondary school teaching (1. Staatesexamen) and entered the program after visiting the department as a Fulbright exchange student. Her research interests include German literary Realism, the history of literary theory and the philosophy of literature. Translations: English-German.
email Annette Budzinski-Luftig
Annette Budzinski-Luftig studied German, Italian and Art History in Heidelberg and Bologna and holds an M.A. in German from the Ruperto Carola, Heidelberg. Her current interests include German Romanticism (and its reception of Dante and Boccaccio), translation theory, taste, gusto and bon gout in the 19th century. Translations: English-German, Italian-German, German-English. Tutoring: all levels.
email Florentina Costache
Florentina Costache studied German Language and Literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania and holds a M.A. in German Literature from the Johns Hopkins University. Her current ares of research include contemporary Austrian literature, narrative theory, postmodern (re)writing and deconstructive reading, as well as history of science in the 18th and 19th centuries, with particular emphasis on philosophies of nature and evolutionary theories of literature. She is also interested in recent trends in trauma theory that call into question various representational claims raised by traditional media in a post-psycholanalytic context. She has completed work on Freud, Wittgenstein, turn-of-the-century Vienna, the Romantic novella, problems of temporality and causation in postmodern texts, and Latin-American writers.
email Doreen Densky
Doreen Densky studied German and English Literature and Linguistics at Humboldt University, Berlin and holds the first Staatsexamen. She spent an academic year at Brown University, Providence, RI as a graduate student fellow. Her research interests include late 19th and 20th century literature, narrative theory, German-Jewish writing, and Franz Kafka.
email Caroline Domenghino
email Lauren Faraone
email Anne Flannery
Anne Flannery holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago. Her research interests include 19th and 20th century literature, history of photography and the visual development of the City, as well as travel narratives and Austrian and Czech history and culture.
email Karsten Gogolin
email Arne Hoecker
Arne Hoecker studied German literature and history in Berlin and holds an M.A. from the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2003 to 2005 he held a DFG-scholarship at the graduate project "The Figure of the Third" (Die Figur des Dritten) at the University of Konstanz. His dissertation focuses around the connections between the definition and interpretation of criminality in the fields of scientific criminology, judiciary practice, and literature around 1900.
email Tove Holmes
email Chris Long
email Arndt Niebisch
Arndt Niebisch studied German Literature, Comparative Literature, Philosophy and History at the University of Münster. He holds a M.A. by the Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include self-referential forms of art, aesthetics, film studies and the history of literary criticism.
email Bianca Schröder
Bianca Schröder studied philosophy, journalism and Russian literature at the University of Hamburg. She spent a semester in St. Petersburg, Russia, working as a translator and teaching German. After receiving her M.A., she worked as a journalist with the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung and held a McCloy Fellowship to the U.S. Bianca is mostly interested in German idealism, aesthetics, and 20th-century literature.
email Malte Wessels
Malte entered the program in September 2004. He holds an M.A. from the Freie Universitaet Berlin. Main interests: theory and aesthetics of scripture from medieval ages to the present, German romanticism, Deleuze.
email Ellwood Wiggins
Ellwood Wiggins has a BA from St. John's college in Annapolis, MD, where he got into the addictive habit of reading and talking about great books. After a couple of years as a Fulbright teacher at a German Gymnasium and a Peace Corps instructor at a Russian pedagogical university, he returned to the US for a post-baccalaureate in classics (Greek and Latin) at U. Penn, and an MA in Eastern Classics at St. John's College, Sante Fe, NM. Still not able to kick the habit, he is now reading and discussing books in the German department at Johns Hopkins. His interests include theater, the reception of Greek poetry and philosophy, and the culture and literature of the DDR.
email Markus Wilczek
Markus Wilczek holds an M.A. from the Georgia Augusta at Göttingen. His research interests include 17th and 18th century literature, Heiner Müller, and literary historiography.
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Rebecca Swisdak, Department Administrator
Gilman Hall 328
410-516-7227
rswisdak@jhu.edu Sally Hauf, Academic Program Coordinator
Gilman Hall 330
410-516-7226
shauf@jhu.edu Mel Edden, Study Abroad Coordinator
Gilman Hall 331
410-516-5133
meledden@jhu.edu
Sherron Bullock, Budget Analyst
Gilman Hall 332
410-516-7508
Clayton Haywood, Systems Administrator
Gilman Hall 300
410-516-0761
chaywood@jhu.edu
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