Biography Language(s): German, English Research/Language Interests: Second Language Acquisition; German About: Julia Goetze hails from Berlin, Germany, where she completed her bachelor’s degree in German Literature and American Studies in 2013. Shortly thereafter, she moved to the U.S. to pursue her graduate education. After finishing her M.A., Julia earned her Ph.D. in German with a …
Biography Language: Russian Research/Language Interests: Romanticism and its legacies, late and post-Soviet culture and society, theater and performance, intersections between literature and contemporary art, aesthetics and critical theory, political theory. About Me: My research falls into three main areas: Russian Romanticism in its European context, late and post-Soviet literature and culture, and Russian theater and …
Biography Language: German Research/Language Interests: 20th and 21st century film, literature, and culture; critical theory; media theory; gender and feminist theory; labor and political economy; German film history About: Mary Hennessy joined the department of German, Nordic, and Slavic in fall 2023. Previously, she taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines women’s …
Biography Pronouns: he/him Language(s): Yiddish, German, English About: Matt Johnson joined GNS+ in fall 2025 after holding positions at Lund University and the Ohio State University. His teaching and research center on Yiddish- and German-language literature and cultural history from the 18th century to the present. He also has active interests in the memory and representation …
Biography Language(s): English, Norwegian, Spanish About: Ida teaches first- through fourth-semester Norwegian language and supervises the graduate TA in Norwegian. She also teaches courses on Nordic literature and culture, including courses on the Nordic child and animals in Nordic literature and film. Her research interests include Nordic children’s literature and childhood studies, animal studies, Nordic …
Biography Language(s): Russian; reading knowledge of French, Latin, Ancient Greek, Czech, German Research/Language Interests: Vladimir Nabokov, creative writing, queer theory, reparative knowledge, contemporary Russian culture, Russian emigre culture, classical antiquity. About Me: My main research interest has been Vladimir Nabokov. My dissertation was about the uses of the classical tradition, the reception of Greek and …
Biography Language: German Research/Language Interests: Literature and Film: twentieth to twenty-first century German literature and film with a specific focus on postwar and contemporary German literature and culture; literature and cinema of the Wende and unification; the legacy of the GDR and the Holocaust; women’s writing; minority literature; and transnational literature Cultural Studies: transnational studies, …
Biography Language: Norwegian (speaking); Swedish, Danish, German (reading/research) Research/Language Interests: Nordic literature since the nineteenth century; cultural and political history of Scandinavia; fascism and anti-fascism; literary and cultural modernisms; memory studies; comparative literature. About: Dean Krouk’s main area of research is Norwegian literature since the nineteenth century, especially its intersections with modern political ideologies during the …
Biography Language: German; Dutch (reading knowledge) Research/Language Interests: Second Language Acquisition; Sociocultural Theory; L2 Literacy; Language Awareness; Pedagogy; the German-American experience. About Me: My main areas of inquiry have been driven by pedagogical concerns and curiosities that have emerged out of my own teaching experiences at the high school and college levels. My dissertation investigated …
Biography Language: Pennsylvania Dutch, German, Yiddish Research/Language Interests: Germanic linguistics, German-American studies, Anabaptist studies, Yiddish studies. About: Mark L. Louden is the Alfred L. Shoemaker, J. William Frey, and Don Yoder Professor of Germanic linguistics and Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies. He is an affiliate of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish …