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German Program People Directory

  • Faculty

  • Christiane Frey

    Associate Professor of German
    Head of Section
    Co-Director, Max Kade Center

    • [email protected]
    • Gilman 408
    • Research Interests: 17th- and 18th-century German literature in the European context; history of science; literature and astronomy; early modern philosophy and aesthetics; critical theories of secularization; baroque temporalities; small forms; historical epistemologies and ecologies
    • Education: PhD, University of Bonn
  • Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei

    Professor and William Kurrelmeyer Chair in German
    Director of Graduate Studies in German

    • [email protected]
    • Gilman 416
    • 410-516-7509
    • Research Interests: Continental Philosophy; Phenomenology; Aesthetics and Philosophy of Literature; Cognitive Literary Theory; Philosophy of Imagination; Modern German Literature and Thought., Literary Ecology and Environmental Studies
    • Education: DPhil, University of Oxford
      PhD, Villanova University
  • Jacob Haubenreich (he/him/his)

    Assistant Professor of German
    Director of Undergraduate Studies, German

    • [email protected]
    • Gilman 435
    • Research Interests: 19th-21st century German literature, posthermeneutics, theory and history of media, Schriftbildlichkeit, book history, writing process, archival theory and practice, experimental literature, literature and the visual arts, new materialism, multilingualism
    • Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
  • Katrin Pahl

    Professor of German

    • [email protected]
    • On Leave: Academic Year 2023-24
    • Gilman 414
    • 410-516-7513
    • Research Interests: German literature and philosophy in comparative perspective (US and French); the theory, poetics and history of emotionality, gender and sexuality; contemporary theater; Hegel; Kleist
    • Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
  • Rochelle Tobias

    Professor of German,
    Head of the German Subdivision
    Director, Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought

    • [email protected]
    • On Leave: Academic Year 2023-24
    • Gilman 404
    • 410-516-7512
    • Research Interests: 18th to 20th century German and European literature and thought; phenomenology; religious studies; continental philosophy; modern poetry; theory of the novel, fiction, and autobiography; German-Jewish culture.
    • Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
  • Deborah McGee Mifflin

    Associate Teaching Professor of German
    Language Program Director, German
    Study Abroad Advisor

    • [email protected]
    • Gilman 469B
    • 410-516-7592
    • Research Interests: German language, literature & linguistics; pedagogy of language teaching, theories of second language acquisition
    • Education: MA, Temple University
  • Heidi Wheeler

    Senior Lecturer, German
    Coordinator, Intermediate German

  • Associated Faculty

  • Lucy Allais

    Miller Professor of Philosophy

    • [email protected]
    • Research Interests: Kant, forgiveness, punishment
    • Education: D.Phil., Oxford
  • Jennifer Culbert

    Associate Professor, Political Science

    • [email protected]
    • Research Interests: Political theory, jurisprudence
    • Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
  • Peter Jelavich

    Professor, History

    • [email protected]
    • Research Interests: European cultural and intellectual history
    • Education: PhD, Princeton University
  • Katharina Kraus

    Miller Associate Professor of Philosophy

    • [email protected]
    • Research Interests: Philosophy of Enlightenment, 19th and 20th century German philosophy
    • Education: PhD, University of Cambridge
  • Leonardo Lisi (he/him)

    Associate Professor, Comparative Thought and Literature, Diversity Champion, Executive Editor, Comparative Literature Issue, MLN

    • [email protected]
    • Research Interests: European literature of the 19th century, modernism, Kierkegaard and German idealism
    • Education: PhD, Yale University
  • Yitzhak Melamed

    Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy

    • [email protected]
    • Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, German idealism, metaphysics
    • Education: PhD, Yale University
  • Mitchell Merback

    Professor, History of Art

    • [email protected]
    • Research Interests:  Late medieval and northern Renaissance art
    • Education: PhD, University of Chicago
  • Dean Moyar

    Professor, Philosophy

    • [email protected]
    • Research Interests: German Idealism, ethics, political philosophy
    • Education: PhD, University of Chicago
  • Karen ní Mheallaigh

    Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics

    • [email protected]
    • Research Interests: Greek literature, culture, and science
    • Education: PhD, Trinity College Dublin
  • Caroline Lillian Schopp

    Assistant Professor, History of Art

    • [email protected]
    • Research Interests: Modern and contemporary art, critical theory, performance
    • Education: PhD, University of Chicago
  • Mark Christian Thompson

    Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, English

    • [email protected]
    • Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century African-American, German and French literature; the history and representation of race in literature and philosophy; political philosophy; aesthetics; art theory
    • Education: PhD, New York University
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