Biography Language: German Research/Language Interests: 18th-21st century German literature and culture; lyric poetry; Race in/and German literature and philosophy; music and literature; meter, rhythm, and prosody; sound/text relations. About: Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge is Professor of German and Associate Chair in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works on German …
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 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: 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: 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 Languages: German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Yiddish Research Areas: 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 …
Biography Language: German, Turkish, Hindi, Urdu Research/Language Interests: 19th to 21st Century German literature and culture; World literature; Translation; the Novel; Migrants and Refugees in German, European, and global contexts; Literature and Migration; Print- and digital cultural histories; Theories of cosmopolitanism, globalization, post-colonialism, and transnationalism. About: B. Venkat Mani is Professor of German and World Literatures, …
Biography Language: German Research Interests: Her research interests are in the areas of literature and culture from the Renaissance to the present, with focus on the European emblem tradition and visual culture, as well as the use of images in architectural decorations, popular culture and propaganda. She has published three co-edited volumes, over thirty articles and …
Biography Language: German Research/Language Interests: Second language acquisition, foreign language pedagogy, authentic materials in L2 teaching and learning, in particular film, study abroad. About Me: I am an applied linguist who joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2010. Prior to that I taught at the University of Texas at Austin and …
Biography Language: German, Russian Research/Language Interests: 18th- to 21st-century German literature and culture; contemporary literature, Romanticism, GDR and Post-GDR literature, fairytales, feminist theory, queer theory, ecocriticism About: Melissa Sheedy joined the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ in August 2020. In addition to teaching classes on fairytales, Kafka, and German theater, she is also the …