Faculty
Susan Derwin, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Professor (contemporary war literature, veterans and social reintegration; humanities and social justice; Holocaust and trauma studies, narrative and healing; psychoanalytic theory)
Michael Hofmann, Continuing Lecturer
Wolf Kittler, Habilitation, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Professor (18th-20th-century German literature and philosophy, critical theory, deconstruction, history of science and media technology)
Gisela Kommerell, M.A., Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Continuing Lecturer (German language and literature, second language acquisition, translation)
Larry McLellan, MA, ABD, UC Berkeley, Continuing Lecturer (Slavic linguistics, language pedagogy, heritage language learners)
Fabian Offert, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor (Computational Humanities, artificial intelligence, new media, Art History)
Evelyn Reder, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Continuing Lecturer (German language and linguistics, foreign language pedagogy, second language acquisition, applied linguistics)
Sven Spieker, DPhil, University of Oxford, Professor (modern and contemporary art and literature, with emphasis on East-Central Europe, including Russia; avant-garde studies; global art; intersections between media, art, science, and philosophy)
Christina Vagt, PhD, Bauhaus University Weimar, Associate Professor (European Media Studies, German and French philosophy, history and theory of knowledge, technology and design)
Elisabeth Weber, PhD, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Professor (18th-21st century literature and philosophy, German-Jewish culture, critical theory, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, trauma studies, human rights)
Sara Pankenier Weld, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (Russian literature, film, and culture; comparative literature; Scandinavian literature; modernism; avant-garde literature, art, and theory; word and image studies; childhood, children's literature, picturebooks)
Kelsey White, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Continuing Lecturer (German language and linguistics, foreign language pedagogy, second language acquisition, applied linguistics, language learning technology)
Emeriti Faculty
Clifford Barraclough
Gunther Gottschalk, PhD, University of Southern California
Gerhart Hoffmeister, PhD, University of Maryland
Albert Kaspin, PhD, UC Berkeley
Roselinde Konrad
Torborg Lundell, PhD, UC Berkeley
Kenneth Pai
Laurence Rickels, PhD, Princeton University
Affiliated Faculty
Elena Aronova, PhD (History)
Adrienne Edgar, PhD (History)
Cynthia Kaplan, PhD (Political Science)
Catherine Nesci, PhD (French and Italian)