Department of German | College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin

First Name	Last Name	Email	Phone	Position	Speciality
Hans	Adler	hadler@wisc.edu	262-9863	Halls-Bascom Professor for Modern Literature Studies (German and Comparative Literature)	German literature from the 18th - 20th century; aesthetics; functions of literary and artistic discourses; history of rationality and reason; interrelationship between philosophy and literature
Salvatore	Calomino	calomino@wisc.edu	262-2915	Associate Professor	Medieval German literature, Middle High German language, heroic and courtly epic, paleography, hagiography
Monika	Chavez	mmchavez@wisc.edu	262-8783	Professor of German and Second Language Acquisition	teacher and learner variables; learner & teacher objectives; classroom language use; code switching; foreign language pedagogy
Hannah	Eldridge	hveldrid@gmail.com		Assistant Professor	Late 18th through 21st-century literature, culture, and philosophy, especially lyric poetry, music, and the relationship between sound and text.
Sabine	Groß	sgross@wisc.edu	262-1844	Professor	Literary theory, narratology, stylistics, reading research, image/text relations, contemporary German-language authors, theater and film
Jost	Hermand		262-6895	Active Professor Emer.	German literature and culture since 1750, with special emphasis on democratic traditions, German-Jewish relations, fascism, and Germany after 1945, as well as on schools of criticism and a comparative arts approach to German culture
Robert	Howell	rbhowell@wisc.edu	262-9070	Professor	Explanatory models of linguistic change ranging from early Germanic phonology to sociolinguistic factors influencing the development of Early Modern Dutch and German
Charles J.	James	cjjames@wisc.edu	262-9747	Professor	Language testing, primarily placement and proficiency testing, teaching and learning methodology
Sonja	Klocke	sklocke@wisc.edu	262-9750	Assistant Professor	Late 18th to 21st century German literature and culture; GDR, “Wende” and unification; post-1945 cinema; women’s writing; globalization; transnationalism; memory theory; body concepts; gender theory
Cora Lee	Kluge	clnollen@wisc.edu	262-8784	Professor	Eighteenth century literature and culture, German-American studies, history of German studies in America
Joan	Leffler	jleffler@wisc.edu	262-2193	Department Coordinator
Weijia	Li	wli255@wisc.edu	(608) 262-2492	Assistant Professor	Transnationalism, Asian German Studies, Anna Seghers and China, German-Jewish refugees in China, 20th and 21st Century German culture and literature.
Mark	Louden	mllouden@wisc.edu	265-4786	Professor	Syntax; language contact; dialectology; Pennsylvania Dutch; Yiddish; German-American studies
B. Venkat	Mani	bvmani@wisc.edu	265-0779	Associate Professor	Discourses of Comparative World Literatures; Libraries, Print-Cultural Histories and New Reading Media; Mono- and Multilingualism; Migration, Cosmopolitanism, Globalization, Transnationalism, Postcolonialism; 20th century German Literature and Culture; Turkish-German Literature.
Mark	Mears	mkmears@wisc.edu	262-4628	Graduate Coordinator
Sabine	Mödersheim	smoedersheim@wisc.edu	(608) 262-3758	Associate Professor	Early Modern literature and culture, Emblem Studies, Visual Culture
Joseph	Salmons	jsalmons@wisc.edu	262-2192	Professor	Historical linguistics, phonology, sociolinguistics, sociophonetics
Jeanne	Schueller	jmschuel@wisc.edu	608-262-3503	Ph.D., Faculty Associate	foreign language pedagogy; authentic materials, particularly film, in language instruction; the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in L2 education
Marc	Silberman	mdsilber@wisc.edu	262-0450	Professor	German cinema, Bertolt Brecht, 20th century, culture, literary historiography
Jolanda Vanderwal	Taylor	jvtaylor@wisc.edu	262-5790	Professor	Dutch and German literature and culture, Dutch (anti-) colonial writing, Dutch- and German-Jewish literature, and exile writings

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