Graduate Program in German Studies

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AFFILIATED FACULTY

LITERATURE

Sibylle Fischer, Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Literature. 19th century literature and philosophy; Nietzsche; aesthetic theory and the arts; authoritarianism and literature; author of the forthcoming Modernity Disavowed: Culture and Politics in the Caribbean after the Haitian Revolution.

Fredric Jameson, William A. Lane, Jr., Professor of Comparative Literature. Chair, Program in Literature. Modernism and postmodernism, Third World literature and cinema, Marx and Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, the modern French novel and cinema, and the Frankfurt School. Author of Marxism and Form (1971), The Prison-House of Language (1972), The Political Unconscious (1981), Late Marxism (1990), Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System (1992), Seeds of Time (1994), Brecht and Method (1998), The Cultural Turn (1998), and Singular Modernity (2002).

Thomas Lahusen, Professor, Graduate Program in Literature. Russian and Soviet literature and culture, Soviet and Chinese film. Author of The Concept of the "New Man" : Forms of Address and Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia (1982), On Synthetism, Mathematics and Other Matters: Zamyatin's Novel "We" (1994 with Edna Andrews and Elena Maksimova), and How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin's Russia (Cornell, 1997).

Kenneth Surin, Professor, Graduate Program in Literature. Continental philosophy, German Romanticism, interpretation and ideology, tragedy and revolution, and colonialism and post-colonialism. Author of The Turnings of Darkness and Light: Essays in Philosophical and Systematic Theology (1989), and Theology and the Problem of Evil (1986).

HISTORY

Malachi Hacohen, Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of History. European intellectual history and Jewish history. Author of Karl Popper, The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna (2000) and of essays in The Journal of Modern History, The Journal of the History of Ideas, History and Theory, and numerous collections. Currently working on Jewish emancipation and the dilemmas of multiculturalism, and on the Congress for Cultural Freedom and postwar Atlantic liberalism.

Claudia Koonz, Professor of History. Nazi race and gender theories, indoctrination and socialization, and German public memory of genocide. Author of Mothers in the Fatherland (1987), Becoming Visible: Women in European History (rev. ed., 1987), and The Shaping of the Nazi Conscience: Ethics, Identity and Race (1999).

Thomas Robisheaux, Associate Professor of History. Early modern social and religious history of Germany. Author of Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany (1989). Courses on Reformation Germany, and the social and economic history of Europe. He is currently at work on witchcraft.

ART HISTORY

Hans van Miegroet, Associate Professor of Art and Art History. Economic, social, and political history of early Modern European art, with emphasis on Burgundy, France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Author of books on Konrad Witz (1986) and Gerard David (1989); co-authored studies on Economics of the Arts and Markets and Novelty. Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art.

Kristine Stiles, Associate Professor of Art and Art History. Contemporary art and theory, performance art, and feminism. Focus on aesthetics and global issues in Romania, Israel, and Vietnam. Author of Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (1996) and Concerning Consequences: Destruction, Performance, and
Survival in Cultures of Trauma (forthcoming). Her research is especially concerned with the representations of violence, trauma, and destruction internationally.

MUSIC

Bryan Gilliam, Professor of Music. Late 19th- and early 20th-century German music including Anton Bruckner, Wagner, Richard Strauss, Kurt Weill, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Books include: Richard Strauss's "Elektra" (1991); The Life of Richard Strauss (1999); editor of Richard Strauss and his World (1992); Richard Strauss: New Perspectives (1992); and Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic (1994).

Elizabeth Paley, Assistant Professor of Music. Music narratology, 19th- century melodrama and incidental music, and gender studies. An article, "'The Voice Which Was My Music': Narrative and Nonnarrative Musical
Discourse in Schumann's Manfred," recently appeared in 19th-Century Music.

R. Larry Todd, Professor of Music. 19th-century German music, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn in their social context. Author of Mendelssohn’s Musical Education (1983); editor of Nineteenth- Century Piano Music (1990) and Mendelssohn and His World (1991).

PHILOSOPHY

Benjamin Ward, Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy. Aesthetics, philosophy of music, Kantian ethics, and the Frankfurt School. Focus on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault. Author of The Romantic Recovery and The Performer’s Imperative.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Romand Coles, Associate Professor of Political Science. Continental political philosophy from Kant to Adorno, critical theory, existential phenomenology, post-modernism, and Marxist thought. Author of Self/Power/Other: Political Theory and Dialogical Ethics (1992), which examines the thought of Augustine, Foucault, and Merleau-Ponty, and Critical Theory and Receptive Generosity: Critical Theory and the Politics of Caritas, which explores the work of Kant, Adorno, Habermas, and others.

Michael Gillespie, Professor of Political Science. Political philosophy in Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger; relation of religion and politics. Author of Hegel, Heidegger and the Ground of History (1984) and Nihilism Before Nietzsche (1995); editor of Nietzsche’s New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics (1988).

Herbert Kitschelt, Professor of Political Science. Comparative public policy, political parties, and social movements in Eastern and Western Europe. Author of The Logics of Party Formation (1989) and Beyond the European Left (1990).

Peter Lange, Professor of Political Science. Provost. Comparative politics, political economy, and 20th- century European politics. Author of Union Democracy and Liberal Corporatism: Exit, Voice and Wage Regulation in Postwar Europe (1984), co-author of Unions, Change and Crisis: French and Italian Union Strategy and the Political Economy (1982).

WOMEN'S STUDIES

RELIGION

Hans Hillerbrand, Professor of Religion. German Reformation, and interaction of religion and society. He has written or edited some eleven books and some forty articles. Several of Dr. Hillerbrand's many books on the Reformation have become standard texts. Editor-in-chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (1996).

DIVINITY SCHOOL

David C. Steinmetz, Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of the History of Christianity. History of Christianity in the later Middle Ages and Reformation. Numerous books and articles, including Luther and Staupitz (1980), Luther in Context (1986, 2002), and Calvin in Context (1995). General editor of the series, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. He is currently writing a book for Oxford entitled, Divided by a Common Past: Christian Thought in Reformation Europe and is co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology. He is the founding president of the American Friends of the Herzog August Bibliothek and a former president of the American Society of Church History.