Poetry (especially 19th and 20th century European and American); photography; literary theory; continental philosophy; visual culture; trauma and witnessing; what constitutes a "great" book; the liberal arts
Faculty
Ulrich Baer
Hent de Vries
Metaphysics, philosophy of religion, religion and law
Doreen Densky
19th to 21st century German-language literature, culture and thought, literary and filmic modernism, narratology, content-based instruction
Andrea Dortmann
German Literature and Culture from the 19th to the 21st centuries; Foreign Language Pedagogy; Content Based Language Instruction (CBI); Curriculum Development; History, Theory, and Practice of Translation
Andrea Krauss
German Literature, Poetics/Aesthetics of the long 18 th century, German Literature after 1945, Exile Literature, Literary Theory, Methodology, Cultural Theory and Analysis
Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Literature and political theory; political theater; postcolonial literature and theory; biopolitics and the Anthropocene
Avital Ronell
Literary and other discourses; feminist and queer letters; philosophy; technology and media; psychoanalysis; deconstruction; performance art
Elisabeth Strowick
Areas of Research/Interest
German literature and thought from the 19 th century to the present, literary theory, psychoanalysis, ecocriticism, aesthetics, rhetoric, and poetics of knowledge
Friedrich Ulfers
German Romanticism; 20th-century novel (Franz Kafka, Robert Musil); post-classical philosophy and its relation to modern science
Leif Weatherby
Romanticism and Idealism; digital theory; political economy
Christopher Wood
Temporalities of art: anachronism, archaism, typology, primitivisms; history of scholarship, esp. the disciplines of art history and archeology; folk art and folk literature; Märchen and Sagen; portraiture and especially “embedded” portraits (donors, votaries); votive objects and images, pilgrimages, relics; drawing and studio practice in the Renaissance; European art and the New World; art and replication technologies; magic and witchcraft in early modern Europe; art and the Protestant Reformation; iconoclasm; German art and culture in the 19th century; art and poetry of Romanticism
Elisabeth Bronfen
Eckart Förster
Eckart Förster is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, German, and Comparative Thought & Literature at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany). He has published widely on Kant and German Idealism, on Goethe’s Philosophy of Science, and on Hölderlin.
Uta Habbig
Foreign Language Pedagogy, Role of Music in Second Language Learning, Children's Language Acquisition, German Music and Culture from 20th to 21th centuries
Maiken Kaczmar
German and Russian literature from the 19 th and 20 th century, linguistics, teaching foreign languages, film, classical music and the arts in Germany and Russia
Foteini Samartzi
Foreign language acquisition and methodology, materials development and film