Faculty
Achilles, Manuela (ma6cq@virginia.edu)General Faculty
(Ph.D in German and History from the University of Michigan)
Modern German history and culture, critical theory, European and transnational studies, Business German
506 New Cabell Hall
434-924-7091
Instructor ID #C266
Office Hours: Wednesday 11:00-1:30
Class Schedule: GETR 3590/STS 2500 - 11:00-12:15 TR CAB 311
Bennett, Benjamin K. (bkb@virginia.edu)
Kenan Professor of German
(Ph.D. Columbia)
Drama, German and European literature of the 18th and early 19th, late 19th and 20th centuries, literary theory
526 New Cabell Hall
434-924-6695
Faculty ID #1290
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 1:00-1:45
Class Schedule: GETR/CPLT 3559 - 2:00-3:15 MW WIL 301;
GETR/CPLT 3590-12:00-12:50 MWF RFN G004C
Bjorklund, Beth (bbb@virginia.edu)
Associate Professor
(Ph.D. Indiana)
Modern German and Austrian literature, linguistics and poetics, translation
518 New Cabell Hall
434-924-0985
Faculty ID #4399
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:00-3:30
Class Schedule: GERM 3590-1:00-1:50 MWF CHM 305;
GERM 3230-10:00-10:50 MWF CAB 331
Finder, Gabriel (gf6n@virginia.edu)
Associate Professor (General Faculty)
(Ph.D. University of Chicago; J.D. University of Pennsylvania)
Yiddish, modern Jewish history, Central and East European Jewry, the Holocaust, Holocaust memory
141 New Cabell Hall
434-243-4369
Faculty ID #4815
Office Hours: On Leave
Class Schedule:
Grossman, Jeffrey (jg2t@virginia.edu)
Associate Professor and Chair
(Ph.D. University of Texas)
German, Yiddish, and comparative literature since the late 18th century, German-Jewish culture, literary theory, translation
516 New Cabell Hall
434-924-6693
Faculty ID #6367
Office Hours: Tuesday 12:30-1:30
Class Schedule: YIDD 1050 - 11:00-12:15 TR WIL 141B
Heins, Laura (ljh8q@virginia.edu)
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. Yale University)
Cinema history and film theory, 20th - 21st century cultural history, German visual culture and media
509 New Cabell Hall
434-924-6699
Faculty ID #C235
Office Hours: On Leave
Class Schedule:
Hudson, Janette (jch2v@virginia.edu)
Lecturer and Language Coordinator
(Ph.D. Illinois/Urbana-Champaign)
Language pedagogy, modern German literature, women writers
519 New Cabell Hall
434-924-6694
Faculty ID #4401
Office Hours: Monday 2:00-3:00 and Wednesday 12:00-1:00
Class Schedule: GERM 3110-11:00-11:50 MWF CAB 335;
GERM 8610-3:30-6:00 R CAB 520
Ilsemann, Mark (mi2x@virginia.edu)
Lecturer
508 New Cabell Hall
434-924-7091
Instructor ID #B425
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 3:30-4:30
Class Schedule: GETR 2050-12:00-12:50 M-F CAB 236;
GERM 3680 2:00-3:15 MW CXAB 235
Kaiser, Volker (vk7y@virginia.edu)
Associate Professor
(Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University)
German literature and philosophy from the later 18th to the 20th century, literary theory, German intellectual history
512 New Cabell Hall
434-924-6697
Faculty ID #3779
Office Hours: On Leave
Class Schedule:
Martens, Lorna (lm2e@virginia.edu)
Professor
(Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Yale University)
Comparative literature 18th-20th centuries, modern German and Austrian literature, women's studies, GDR literature, poetry, narrative and narrative theory
517 New Cabell Hall
434-924-6704
Faculty ID #4780
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30-4:30; Friday 1:00-2:00
Class Schedule: GETR/CPLT/SWAG 3590-11:00-12:15 TR CAB 430;
GERM 5500-2:00-3:15 MW PAV V-Room 109
McDonald, William C. (wcm@virginia.edu)
Professor
(Ph.D. Ohio State)
Medieval German literature, German pedagogy
525 New Cabell Hall
434-924-6702
Faculty ID #2868
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 11:00-12:00
Class Schedule: GERM 3000-10:00-10:50 MWF CLK 101;
GERM 4450-9:00-9:50 MW WIL 141A -- Friday 1:00-1:50
Schenberg, Cora (cs5u@virginia.edu)
Lecturer
(Ph.D. University of Virginia)
Autobiography, memoir, GDR literature, Lyric Judaic studies, feminist theory/ies
507 New Cabell Hall
434-924-7463
Instructor ID #3760
Office Hours: Monday 12:00-1:00 and 2:00-3:00
Class Schedule: GERM 1015-11:00-11:50 MWF CAB 123;
GERM 1110-1:00-1:50 M-F CAB 234
Stewart, Gordon (gms7y@virginia.edu)
Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
(Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University)
Liberal arts education, literary history, German-American literary relations
213 Garrett Hall
434-924-8873
Faculty ID #1075
Office Hours: Daily by appointment 924-8873 or 924-8854
Class Schedule: GETR 2400-2:00-3:15 MW CAB 335
Voris, Renate (rlv3a@virginia.edu)
Professor
(Ph.D. Ohio State)
Aesthetics and literary theory, feminism, semiotics of theatre and cinema, German film history, 19th and 20th century literature and cultural studies
512 New Cabell Hall
434-924-6696
Faculty ID #4879
Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30-5:00 and by appointment
Class Schedule: GETR/CPLT 3590-11:00-12:15 TR BRN 310;
GERM 3010-2:00-3:15 TR CAB 224
Wellmon, Chad (mcw9d@virginia.edu)
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley)
European Romanticism and Enlightenment, European Intellectual History, Media Studies, Social and Cultural Theory
505 New Cabell Hall
434-924-7067
Faculty ID #C988
Office Hours:
Class Schedule: GETR 3330-9:30-10:45 TR CLK G004;
GERM/ENGL 5500-3:30-6:00 T MCL 2007
Emeritus Faculty
Thomas W. BestWilliam E. Jackson
Wm. A. Little
Walter Sokel