Elisabeth Weber |profile|email
(Professor and Chair, Ph.D. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 1988, Affiliated Professor of Religious Studies)

Weber's research interests and publications include the following: French philosophy and theory; psychoanalysis and trauma-studies; German Judaism of the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries; nineteenth- and twentieth century German literature.

Cornelia Becher |profile|email
(Lecturer, Director of German Language Program, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1989)

Cornelia Becher works in the fields of cultural studies and applied linguistics. Her interests include the study of language and culture, German film, eighteenth- to twentieth-century German literature, and German for reading knowledge.

Dorothy M. Chun |profile|email
(Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1982)

Dorothy Chun's areas of research involve second language acquisition, intonation (the melody and rhythm of language), computer-mediated communication for language learning, and learning and teaching with digital media.

Susan Derwin |profile|email
(Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1988)

Susan Derwin works in the fields of Holocaust studies and nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative, with an emphasis on memoir, testimony, psychoanalytic theory, and the American and European novel. She is an affiliate of the English Department and the Comparative Literature Program.

Jocelyn Holland |profile|email
(Assistant Professor, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 2003)

Jocelyn Holland's areas of research include Goethe, German romanticism, rhetoric, and the philosophy of nature, with an emphasis on the intersections between the history of science and literature.

Wolf D. Kittler |profile|email
(Professor, Ph.D., University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, 1979; Habilitation, University of Freiburg, 1986)

Wolf Kittler's research interests are interdisciplinary. They include Western literature from Greek antiquity to the present, philosophy, art history, history of science, media technology and critical theory.

Katia McClain |email
(Lecturer, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles)

Slavic linguistics, discourse, language acquisition, language and gender, folklore, women in Russian and East European society and literature.

Larry McLellan|profile|email
(Lecturer, Slavic Academic Advisor, M.A., ABD, University of California, Berkeley)

Slavic linguistics, syntax, discourse, language pedagogy.

Laurence A. Rickels |profile|email
(Professor, Ph.D. Princeton University, 1980)

The genealogy of media (of both occult mediums and media technologies), Freud, psychoanalytic theories, and the overlaps (for example in Frankfurt school thought as in deconstruction) between psychoanalysis and various other critical discourses.

Sven Spieker |profile|email
(Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Affiliate Professor of Art and History of Art and Architecture, Ph.D. Oxford University, 1992)

Sven Spieker is particularly interested in East-Central European literatures, contemporary art (especially in the East-Central-European context), the theory and practice of the historical avant-gardes in East-Central Europe and the US, and the interplay of media, art, and critical theory.

Sara Wheeler |profile|email
(Lecturer, M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara)

Hebrew linguistics, syntax, discourse, language pedagogy. Modern Israeli literature.