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	Professor	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	teacher and learner variables; learner & teacher objectives; classroom language use; code switching; foreign language pedagogy
Sabine	Groß	sgross@wisc.edu	262-0647	Professor	Literary theory, narratology, stylistics, reading research, image/text relations, contemporary German-language authors, theater and film
Robert	Howell	rbhowell@wisc.edu	262-1844	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
Nancy	Kaiser	nkaiser@wisc.edu	262-3503	Professor	Feminist literary and cultural studies, German literature and aesthetics around 1800, and questions of gender in emancipatory discourses
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
Mark	Louden	mllouden@wisc.edu	265-4786	Professor	Syntactic theory, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic factors in language contact and syntactic change, synchrony and diachrony of languages strongly affected by contact, including Yiddish, Pennsylvania German, and pidgins and creoles
Carla	Love	cjlove@wisc.edu	262-2626	Distinguished Lecturer	Teaching language and literature to undergraduates; academic governance
B. Venkat	Mani	bvmani@wisc.edu	265-0779	Associate Professor	20th century German literature, especially literature written by authors of non-German heritages, feminist literature, gay and lesbian literature.
Sara	Markham	smarkham@wisc.edu		Senior Lecturer	19th, 20th and 21st -century literature, culture, and history of German-speaking countries; Nobel Prize-winning writers in the German language.
Mark	Mears	mkmears@wisc.edu	262-4628	Graduate Coordinator
Sabine	Mödersheim	smoedersheim@wisc.edu	262-3758	Associate Professor	Early Modern literature and culture, emblematics, rhetoric
Joseph	Salmons	jsalmons@wisc.edu	262-0034	Professor	Phonology, language change and morphology using data from historical and contemporary Germanic languages, including German dialects in America
Marc	Silberman	mdsilber@wisc.edu	262-0450	Professor	German cinema, Bertolt Brecht, 20th century, culture, literary historiography
James	Steakley	steakley@wisc.edu	262-9750	Professor	20th-century German and Dutch gay history
Jolanda Vanderwal	Taylor	jvtaylor@wisc.edu	262-1844	Associate Professor	Dutch and German literature and culture, Dutch (anti-) colonial writing, Dutch- and German-Jewish literature, and exile writings

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