Emeriti

Emeritus professor of German. Hans Adler has been a member of the Department of German since 1990 after teaching for twelve years at universities in Germany. His research and teaching covers 18th through 21st-century literature and culture, literary theory, aesthetics, and the relationship between literature, philosophy, and social history.

Emeritus professor of German. Salvatore Calomino holds the Ph.D. from Harvard University and the A.B from Columbia University. His fields of research and teaching are medieval literature and culture, Germanic philology, and music. Main areas of focus are Middle and Early New High German language and literature, and the relationship of music and literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Areas of interest are heroic and courtly epic, medieval dialects and palaeography, drama, and symphonic as well as operatic works from the Enlightenment to the present. His publications have dealt with the broader context of medieval studies, the works of Gustav Mahler, and German and Italian opera. Since 2010, he has held the appointment of Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry Library, Chicago.

Emerita professor of German. Monika Chavez’s current research focuses on social and perceptual aspects of language learning and teaching. Taking a comparative angle, Monika explores the views of learners of different languages; and of teachers and learners; she also compares language narratives in popular and academic discourses; and investigates the intersection between empirical measures of classroom language use, intent, and perceptions.

Halina Filipowicz’s fields of specialization are Polish literary and intellectual history, history and theory of drama and theatre, and gender and women’s studies.

Emeritus professor of German.

Emerita professor of German, faculty member in German since 1992; Faculty Director of the Honors Program (College of Letters & Science) from 2015 to 2021, Hilldale Award Arts/Humanities 2021, Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award 1999. Interests: Modern German-language literature and theater, time, text, and image, language play in the classroom.

†Emeritus professor of German.

Rob Howell is an emeritus professor of German. His research/language interests are focused around historical linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, dialectology, morphology, and phonology.