Fritz Breithaupt

Professor, Germanic Studies

• fbreitha@indiana.edu

Research Interests
literature and cognitive science; empathy; narrative; German and European literature, philosophy, and culture since 1700; aesthetics; intellectual history of money; Goethe

Troy Byler

Senior German Lecturer, Germanic Studies

Outreach Coordinator, Germanic Studies

• tbyler@indiana.edu

Research Interests
language pedagogy; teacher training; workshop development and programming

Michel Chaouli

Professor, Germanic Studies

• chaouli@indiana.edu

Research Interests
literature and philosophy; aesthetic theory; literature starting around 1750; poetic criticism

Susanne Even

Clinical Associate Professor, Germanic Studies

Language Coordinator, Germanic Studies

• evens@indiana.edu

Research Interests
foreign language pedagogy; innovative teaching and learning approaches; performative pedagogy; intercultural and multilingual competence, bilingual novels, and curriculum development for higher education

Kari Gade

Professor, Germanic Studies

Director of Graduate Studies, Germanic Studies

• gade@indiana.edu

Research Interests
old Norse-Icelandic language, literature, culture and history, together with Germanic philology, metrics, and linguistics

Bieneke Haitjema

Lecturer, Dutch Language and Culture, Germanic Studies

• jhaitjem@indiana.edu

Research Interests
comparative philology, sociolinguistics, and poetry international "In other words"

Tracy Alan Hall

Professor, Germanic Studies

Editor, Journal of Germanic Linguistics

• tahall2@indiana.edu

Research Interests
general and Germanic linguistics, phonology, morphology, and historical linguistics

Esther Ham

Senior Lecturer of Dutch, Germanic Studies

Coordinator for Dutch Language and Culture, Germanic Studies

• eham@indiana.edu

Research Interests
second/foreign language pedagogy, intercultural communication, Frisian, cittaal, Afrikaans and anything related to South-Africa and elephants

Dov-Ber Kerler

Professor, Germanic Studies

Professor, Jewish Studies

Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair, Yiddish Studies

• dkerler@indiana.edu

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

Nikole Langjahr

Senior Lecturer German, Germanic Studies

• nilangja@indiana.edu

Research Interests
language pedagogy; intercultural communication

Gergana May

Senior Lecturer, Germanic Studies

Coordinator of Norwegian Program

• ggmay@indiana.edu

Research Interests
Norwegian language; Scandinavian literature and theatre; Ibsen and Strindberg; literary theory and criticism; translation for the theatre

William Rasch

Professor, Germanic Studies

Chairman, Germanic Studies

• wrasch@indiana.edu

Research Interests
German philosophical tradition, especially social and political theory, from early modernity to the present; German literature within its historical and political context

Benjamin Robinson

Associate Professor, Germanic Studies

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Germanic Studies

• bbrobins@indiana.edu

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

Johannes Türk

Associate Professor, Germanic Studies

Director of Institute of German Studies

Adjunct Associate Professor, Comparative Literature

• joturk@indiana.edu

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

Marc Weiner

Professor, Germanic Studies

• weiner@indiana.edu

Research Interests
19th and early 20th century literary and cultural studies of Germany and Austria; Fin-de-Sicle Vienna; German and Austrian music; opera and ideology; history of racial and sexual iconographies; German-Jewish relations; German film; critical theory