Emeriti

 Ewa Miernowska received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1996 and joined the Department of Slavic Languages, where she taught Polish language and culture. She initiated the Polish major at UW–Madison and developed advanced Polish courses that incorporated literary texts and various forms of media. In 1993, she founded the Annual Polish Film Festival, one of the first film festivals held on the UW–Madison campus.

I hold the Michael Ochs Professorship in German and Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My work concentrates on relating music, the arts, and the writing of cultural history to ideological, political, social, and economic conditions, focusing twentieth-century Germany, Europe, and the United States.

Marc Silberman, who retired in January 2016, received his Ph.D. from Indiana University (1975) and joined the UW faculty in 1988 after spending twelve years at the University of Texas in San Antonio. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses on German literature, cinema, and culture of the twentieth and twenty-first century, including as guest professor at UCLA, Freie Universität Berlin, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, University of Oxford, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Universidad de Valencia in Spain.

I am the Vilas-Phipps Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I have a dual interest in Russian Studies and Theatre for Youth, and have been able to combine these two large areas of research during my studies and my career at UW-Madison.