People - All

Name

Field of Interest

Melissa Ayar

Graduate Student

melayar@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Fridays 12:30-13:30 or by appointment (Spring 25)

DEN 400K

Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Media Studies, Second Language Acquisition, Translation and Interpretation

Rafael Balling

Assistant Professor

balling@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays, 12.30-1.30 and by appt.

Denny Hall 333

20th Century, 21st Century, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Body, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Jewish Studies, Literary Criticism, Queer Studies, Trans Studies

Nathan Bates

Graduate Student

n8bates@uw.edu

20th Century, Language Pedagogy, Modernism, Novel/Prose Fiction, Philosophy, Romanticism, Transhumanism

Seth Berk

Alumnus, German Studies

sberk25@uw.edu

18th Century, Critical Theory, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, German, Literature, Modernism, Philosophy, Postcolonial

Richard Block

Professor of German Studies

blockr@uw.edu / (206) 543-6025

Office Hours: W & F: 11:30-12:20 and by appt.

DEN 345

Culture, German, Global and Transnational Studies, Jewish Studies, Literature, Queer Studies

Hannah Bradley Kondo

Alumni

hbkondo@uw.edu

21st Century, Ecocriticism, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Klaus Brandl

Professor of German Studies
Language Program Director

brandl@uw.edu / (206) 543-6887

Office Hours: by appointment via zoom only

DEN 346

Applied Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Teacher Education and Learning, Technology and Language Learning

Aaron Carpenter

Alumni

aaronc84@uw.edu

21st Century, Austrian, Digital Humanities, Historical Linguistics, Literature, Medieval, Postcolonial, Translation and Interpretation

Matthew Childs

Alumni

mchilds5@uw.edu

18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Crisis Studies, Critical Theory, Disaster Studies, Ecocriticism, Economics, Environmental Humanities, Goethe Studies, Intellectual History, Kleist Studies, Philosophy

Stephanie Dawson

Alumna, German Studies

18th Century, 19th Century, Culture, German, Literature

Aline Franzus

Alumna

afranzus@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment (over Zoom)

DEN 400K

21st Century, American Studies, Book Studies, Censorship Studies, Cultural memory, Education, Global and Transnational Studies, Popular Culture, Social Justice

Anna Malin Gerke

Graduate Student

agerke@uw.edu

Office Hours: On leave

DEN 328

Affect Theory, Applied Linguistics, Digital Humanities, NLP, Podcasts, Pragmatics, Rhetoric and Composition, Textual Studies, Transcription

Rebecca-Sophie Glaw

Alumni

rglaw@uw.edu

18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Education, Language Pedagogy, Literature, Nonfiction Prose, Poetry and Poetics

Jason Groves

Associate Professor of German Studies
Undergraduate Programs Coordinator

jagroves@uw.edu / (206) 221-2566

Office Hours: By appointment

DEN 342

Ecocriticism, Global and Transnational Studies, Jewish Studies, Literary Criticism, Performance Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Public Scholarship, Translation and Interpretation

Dylan Hundley

Undergraduate Student Representative, 2016-17

Jeffrey Jarzomb

Alumni

jarzomb@uw.edu

18th Century, 19th Century, Film/Cinema

Japhet Johnstone

Alumnus, German Studies

japhetj@uw.edu

19th Century, 20th Century, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, German, Literary Criticism, Literature, Romanticism

Alexey Kuznetsov

Teaching Assistant

alexeyk@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesday 13:00-14:00, Friday 10:20-11:30, alternative times by appointment

DEN 400K (TA loft)

Nathan Magnusson

Alumnus, Germanics

magnun@uw.edu

19th Century, Historiography, Novel/Prose Fiction, Popular Culture, Romanticism

Justin Mohler

Alumnus

jmohler@uw.edu

18th Century, 19th Century, Animal Studies, Ecocriticism, Film/Cinema, Folklore and Mythology, German, Language Pedagogy

Michael Neininger

Program Specialist

nein@uw.edu / (206) 543-4580

Office Hours: M-Th 9:30 - 2:30; and by appointment

DEN 360 C

Critical Theory, Film/Cinema, Literature, Media Studies, Performance Studies, Philosophy, Poetry and Poetics, Visual Arts

Annegret Oehme

Associate Professor
Graduate Program Coordinator

oehme@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-2pm, Thursdays 2-3pm, Denny Hall 330: Sign-up here: https://oehme.youcanbook.me

DEN 330

16th Century, 17th Century, Comics, Historical Linguistics, Jewish Studies, Literature, Medieval, Race and Ethnicity, Yiddish

Thiti Owlarn

Alumni

thitiowlarn@gmail.com

Brigitte Prutti

Professor of German

triest@uw.edu / (206) 543-4565

Office Hours: M, F 11:30-12:00 and by appt.

DEN 341

18th Century, 20th Century, Austrian, Culture, Drama, Literature

Sam Romanelli

Alumni

samroma8@uw.edu

18th Century, Drama, German, Linguistics, Music, Poetry and Poetics, Romanticism, Translation and Interpretation

Arpit Samuel

Graduate Student

arpitsam@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm, Tuesdays 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm

Denny Hall 400K

Sophia Schuessler

Alumna

sschue@uw.edu

Folklore and Mythology, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics

Andre Schuetze

Assistant Teaching Professor
Honors Adviser

berlin1a@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

DEN 337

Austrian, Berlin, Culture, DDR, Film/Cinema, German, Literature, Literature and Other Arts, Media Studies, Modernism, Swiss, Urban Studies

Martin Schwartz

Graduate Student

mhschwar@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tu 11:30-12:30 and by appointment

DEN 400K

20th Century, 21st Century, Antisemitism, Drama, Film/Cinema, Intellectual History, Jewish Studies, Performance Studies

Inga Schwemin

Graduate Student

schwemin@uw.edu

Office Hours: Dienstag und Donnerstag 13:30-14:30 Uhr, bitte per Mail anmelden

DEN 328

18th Century, Body, Drama, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, History, Poetry and Poetics, Popular Culture

Martina Sijakovic

Alumni

msijakov@uw.edu

German, Historical Linguistics, Intercultural Studies, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Phonetics/Phonology

Kye Terrasi

Associate Teaching Professor

kterrasi@uw.edu / (206) 221-7758

Office Hours: By appointment

DEN 336

Austrian, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, German, Visual Arts

Samantha Vangeel

Alumna, German Studies

samjv@uw.edu

Applied Linguistics, Culture, German, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Translation and Interpretation

Detlev Weber

Graduate Student

dmgweber@uw.edu

Critical Theory, Folklore and Mythology, History, Literature, Medieval

Stephanie Welch

Administrator

snwelch@uw.edu / (206) 543-6046

Office Hours: Daily 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

DEN 360D

Children's Literature, Comics, Education, Film/Cinema, International Studies, Novel/Prose Fiction, Science and Technology

Ellwood Wiggins

Associate Professor of German Studies
Chair

wiggins1@uw.edu / (206) 543-4189

Office Hours: Schedule a Meeting with me here: https://calendly.com/ellwood_wiggins/advising

DEN 360

18th Century, 19th Century, Affect Theory, Classics, Comparative Literature, Drama, Performance Studies, Philology, Philosophy, Reception of Antiquity, Reception of Shakespeare, Translation and Interpretation

Anshuang Yang

Alumna

azy32@uw.edu

Applied Linguistics, German, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Literature, Second Language Acquisition

Emeriti Faculty

Jane K. Brown

Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor of Western Civilization Emerita (German Studies and Comparative Literature)

jkbrown@uw.edu / (206) 543-4580

17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, Comparative Literature, German, Literature

Marshall Brown

Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature and German Studies

mbrown@uw.edu / (206) 543-1488

B405 PDL

18th Century, 19th Century, Comparative Literature, Literary Criticism, Literature and Other Arts, Music and Literature

Richard Gray

Professor of German Studies, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities

woyzeck@uw.edu

18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Critical Theory, Culture, German, Literature, Sociology

Sabine Wilke

Professor Emerita

wilke@uw.edu

Austrian, Critical Theory, Culture, Ecocriticism, German, Literature, Postcolonial

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

People - Adjuncts & Affiliates
Name	Title	Email/Phone
Albiero, Olivia	Affiliate Assistant Professor, German Studies	albieroo@uw.edu
Ames, Eric	Adjunct Professor, Cinema & Media Studies and German Studies	eames@uw.edu (206) 543-7542
Canfield-Budde, David	Affiliate Assistant Professor, German Studies	dacan@uw.edu
Kaup, Monika	Adjunct Professor, English, Comparative Literature, and German Studies	mkaup@uw.edu (206) 221-6509
Kuru, Selim	Adjunct Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization and German Studies	selims@uw.edu
Lang, Sabine	Adjunct Professor, Jackson School of International Studies and German Studies	salang@uw.edu
Marhoefer, Laurie	Adjunct Associate Professor, History and German Studies	marl@uw.edu
Marshall, Colin	Adjunct Associate Professor, Philosophy and German Studies	crmarsh@uw.edu
Nascimento, Amos	Adjunct Professor, Philosophy, Interdisciplinary A&S UW Tacoma, and German Studies	anascim@uw.edu
Pfaff, Steven	Adjunct Professor, Sociology and German Studies	pfaff@uw.edu
Simon, Britta	Affiliate Assistant Professor, German Studies; Director of Summer Quarter, Academic Programs	bsimon@uw.edu (206) 685-6303
Tilghman, Heidi	Affiliate Assistant Professor, German Studies; Manager, Arts & Humanities Shared Services Center	tilghman@uw.edu

In Memoriam

People - In Memoriam
Name	Title
Ammerlahn, Hellmut	Professor Emeritus, German Studies and Comparative Literature
Bansleben, Manfred	Professor Emeritus, German Studies
Barrack, Charles	Professor Emeritus, German Studies
Behler, Diana	Professor Emerita, German Studies and Comparative Literature
Mclean, Sammy	Professor Emeritus, Germanics and Comparative Literature
Voyles, Joseph	Professor Emeritus, German Studies