Rotating Teaching Faculty

Title
Miriam Bailin
Associate Professor, English; Comparative Literature; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
history of the book; the novel; Victorian literature and culture
Henry Biggs
Associate Dean and Director of Undergraduate Research
16th-century French poetry; hip-hop; linguistics; metrical phonology
Andrew Brown
Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish)
20th- and 21st-century Latin American narrative; Argentine cinema; cyborg and post human theory; literature and science
Letty Chen
Associate Professor, Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (Chinese)
globalization; identity politics; mimesis; narratology; postcolonialism; Postmodernism; travel theory
Matt Erlin
Associate Professor, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures
18th- and 19th-century German studies; aesthetic theory; literature and economics; the novel; urban culture
Lutz Koepnick
Professor, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Film and Media Studies; Comparative Literature
critical theory and aesthetics; German literature and film; media history and theory; visual culture
William Layher
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Comparative Literature
German and Scandinavian drama; heroic poetry; medieval German literature; medieval Scandinavian literature; mythology
Tabea Linhard
Assistant Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish); Comparative Literature
contemporary Spanish and Mexican literature and cultural studies; immigration in Europe; Jewish diaspora; Mediterranean studies; Spanish film
Erin McGlothlin
Associate Professor, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Comparative Literature
Holocaust studies; Jewish studies; narrative theory and autobiography; postwar and contemporary German-Jewish literature; Yiddish literature
Stephan Schindler
Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures; Comparative Literature; Film and Media Studies
Chair, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures
18th- and 20th-century German literature; film studies; gender studies; holocaust studies; international affairs; psychoanalysis