Provost Professor, Germanic Studies
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Research Interests
literature and cognitive science; empathy; narrative; emotions; German and European literature, philosophy, and culture since 1700; aesthetics; intellectual history of money; Goethe
Professor, Germanic Studies
Research Interests
literature and philosophy; aesthetic theory; literature starting around 1750; poetic criticism
Assistant Professor, Germanic Studies
Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sociology
Director: Olamot Center for scholarly and cultural exchange with Israel
Research Interests
memory studies; media and the public sphere; ethnicity and race; contemporary german culture; museums
Clinical Professor, Germanic Studies
Language Coordinator, Germanic Studies
Research Interests
foreign language pedagogy; innovative teaching and learning approaches; performative pedagogy; intercultural and multilingual competence; fairytales; curriculum development for higher education; Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
Professor, Germanic Studies
Research Interests
general and Germanic linguistics, phonology, morphology, and historical linguistics
Associate Professor, Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies
Associate Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
Günther Jikeli heads IU's Social Media & Hate Research Lab.
Research Interests
Antisemitism after the Holocaust; antisemitism in social media; racism, discrimination and education; Jewish-Muslim relations; national socialism: forced labor and the Holocaust.
Professor, Germanic Studies
Professor, Jewish Studies
Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair, Yiddish Studies
Adjunct Professor, Comparative Literature
Affiliated Faculty, Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute
Research Interests
history, dialectology, sociology, and the Linguistic Analysis of Yiddish; history of Old Yiddish literature (15th to 18th Century); Yiddish-Slavic linguistic and cultural contacts; Yiddish and modern Israeli Hebrew; modern Yiddish poetry
Assistant Professor, Germanic Studies
Director of the Institute of German Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Cultural Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Environmental Futures
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance
Research Interests
theater and performance, politics of aesthetics, comedy, environmental humanities, theater and the sciences, transcultural theater
Senior German Lecturer, Germanic Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Interests
language pedagogy; intercultural communication
Senior Lecturer, Germanic Studies
Coordinator of Norwegian Program
Research Interests
Norwegian language; Scandinavian literature and theatre; Ibsen and Strindberg; literary theory and criticism; translation for the theatre
Associate Professor, Germanic Studies
Research Interests
20th-century and contemporary literature and culture, especially with respect to institutions of law, economics and science; modernism and socialism; questions of literary reference and realism, particularly as they are thought about in phenomenological and sociological traditions
Professor, Germanic Linguistics and Philology
Director of Graduate Studies, Germanic Studies
Adjunct Professor, Department of Linguistics
Research Interests
Morphology and syntax of German, Language variation and change, Medieval Germanic languages and philology
Lecturer of German, Germanic Studies
Outreach Coordinator, Germanic Studies
Research Interests
Foreign language pedagogy and outreach; Germanic philology; Vikings and Sagas; Low German language and culture; 'liver-rhyme' poetry and 'Gesellschaftslyrik'
Associate Professor, Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature
Chair, Germanic Studies
Research Interests
literary theory; aesthetic theory; rhetoric; philosophy; the history of the German and the European novel; modernism; literature and life sciences (especially Immunology); trauma and literature
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