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
Annex B room 103
434-924-7091
Instructor ID #C266
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
Annex A room 108
434-924-6695
Faculty ID #1290
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
191 Nau
434-243-4369
Faculty ID #4815
Grossman, Jeffrey (jg2t@virginia.edu)
Associate Professor
(Ph.D. University of Texas)
German, Yiddish, and comparative literature since the late 18th century, German-Jewish culture, literary theory, translation
Annex A room 113
434-924-6693
Faculty ID #6367
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
Annex A room 112
434-924-0985
Faculty ID #C235
Ilsemann, Mark (mi2x@virginia.edu)
Lecturer
(Ph.D. Princeton)
German Idealism, Classicism, Romanticism, contemporary authors (such as Durs Grünbein and W.G. Sebald), and the history of literary theory.
Annex A room 109
434-924-6696
Instructor ID #B425
Kaiser, Volker (vk7y@virginia.edu)
Associate Professor and Chair
(Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University)
German literature and philosophy from the later 18th to the 20th century, literary theory, German intellectual history
Annex A room 115
434-924-6697
Faculty ID #3779
Martens, Lorna (lm2e@virginia.edu)
Professor of German and Comparative Literature
(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
Annex A room 114
434-924-6704
Faculty ID #4780
McDonald, William C. (wcm@virginia.edu)
Professor
(Ph.D. Ohio State)
Medieval German literature, German pedagogy
Annex A room 107
434-924-6702
Faculty ID #2868
Schenberg, Cora (cs5u@virginia.edu)
Lecturer
(Ph.D. University of Virginia)
Autobiography, memoir, GDR literature, Lyric Judaic studies, feminist theory/ies
Annex B room 101
434-924-7463
Instructor ID #3760
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
101 Monroe Hall
434-924-8873
Faculty ID #1075
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
Annex A room 110
434-924-7067
Faculty ID #C988
Affliated Faculty
Dorothe Bach
Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Teaching Resource Center
(Ph.D. in German Literature from the University of Virginia)
Children's and young adult literature, teaching and learning in higher education, faculty development
Hotel D, East Range
434-982-2800
Emeritus Faculty
Renate Voris
Janette Hudson
Beth Bjorklund
Thomas W. Best
William E. Jackson
Wm. A. Little
Walter Sokel