Adjunct Associate Professor of German Studies
Fisk Hall 409
860-685-3753

ibork@wesleyan.edu

MA Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat
PHD Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat

GRST101 - 01
Elementary German

GRST101 - 02
Elementary German

GRST217 - 01
German Culture Today

GRST102 - 01
Elementary German

GRST102 - 02
Elementary German

Personal Homepage:
http://ist263.su-webdesign-sites.com/fall2010/jjgoldfi/wordpress/

Office Hours:
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 1:30pm-2:30pm or by appointment

Research Interests:
Migration literature in Germany and its role in the 21st century.

Scholarly Keywords:
19th and 20th century literature: "Truemmerliteratur, Exilliteratur, Holocaustliteratur, Migrantenliteratur."
Language methodology and technology.

Academic Associations:
AATG (American Association of Teachers of German)
ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)
CT-COLT (Connecticut Language Teachers)
NERALLT (New England Regional Association for Language Learning Technology)

Lab URL:
http://ibork.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

AB Occidental College
MA University of Connecticut

ENGL205 - 01
Shakespeare

ENGL207 - 01
Chaucer

ENGL201J - 01
History of Selfhood

Office Hours:
Fall 2010: Tues & Thurs 12:00-1:00PM 294 High St., Downey House #301

Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies
Fisk Hall 408
860-685-3354

ahoecker@wesleyan.edu

MA Humboldt University
PHD Johns Hopkins University

Office Hours:
Tuesdays 4.00pm-5.30pm, and by appointment

Research Interests:
Current projects: *The Case of Citation: On Pragmatic and Literary Reference *Verfahrensform: The Modernist Novel between Bildung and institution Recent Publications: *Zeitschrift fuer deutsche Philologie, Issue 04/2010, on the topic "Die Einrichtung der Literatur" ["The Institution of Literature"], co-edited with Ulrich Plass *most recent articles on Gottfried Benn's approach to lyric poetry, on problems of scientific authorship, and on the figure of the prison chaplain.

Scholarly Keywords:
German literature and culture from the late 18th century to the present
History of Science
Literary Theory
Literature and Law
Theory of the Novel
Realism

Academic Associations:
"The Figure of the Third", interdisciplinary research group at the University of Konstanz, Germany
German Studies Association
Modern Language Association

Professor of German Studies
Fisk Hall 405
860-685-3379

Chair, German Studies
Fisk Hall 405
860-685-3379

Professor, Film Studies
860-685-3379

llensing@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Notre Dame
MA Cornell University
PHD Cornell University
MAA Wesleyan University

GRST211 - 01
Intermediate German

GRST252 - 01
Weimar Cinema in Context

GRST273 - 01
Freud's Vienna

GRST253 - 01
The New German Cinema

GRST363 - 01
Realism and Reality

Office Hours:
By appointment Office: Fisk Hall, Rm 405 X3379

Leo Lensing is the editor of the Anarchy of the Imagination (1992), The American collection of the essays and interviews of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. His other work includes articles on the relationship between film and literature during the 1920s and 1930s and lexicon essays on Fassbinder, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders. He occasionally writes on film for the Times Literary Supplement, mostly recently an essay on Fassbinder the writer. "Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wunderkind," and a review of Werner Herszog's Rescue Dawn. He regularly teaches courses on the new German Cinema and on the films of the Weimar Republic.

Assistant Professor of German Studies
Fisk Hall 411
860-685-3302

uplass@wesleyan.edu

MA University of Michigan
PHD New York University

GRST254 - 01
Frankfurt Critical Theory

GRST386 - 01
German Romanticism

GRST251 - 01
Kafka

GRST261 - 01
Reading Nietzsche

Office Hours:
On sabbatical in spring 2011, office hours by appointment only

Research Interests:
Current book project: Exile, Crisis, and Dialectics: Adorno's Philosophy of "Damaged Life" in Context. Recent publications: *Franz Kafka (UTB Profile) *Telos 149 (December 2009), special issue on "Adorno and America", co-edited with Joshua Rayman *Zeitschrift fuer deutsche Philologie, issue 04/2010, on the topic "Die Einrichtung der Literatur" ["The Institution of Literature"], co-edited with Arne Hoecker

Scholarly Keywords:
German literature and culture from 1770 to the present
Critical Theory
Lyric poetry
Literary theory and history
Aesthetics

Academic Associations:
Modern Language Association
German Studies Association
American Association of Teachers of German
American Society for Aesthetics
American Association of University Professors

Grants:
NEH summer seminar 2007 Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellow fall 2008 Wesleyan Project Grants, 2007 and 2009

Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature
Fisk Hall 402
860-685-3378

Dean of the Arts and Humanities
North College 326
860-685-2706

Professor of German Studies
Fisk Hall 402
860-685-3378

Professor, Environmental Studies
Fisk Hall 402
860-685-3378

Coordinator

kwinston@wesleyan.edu

BA Smith College
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University
MAA Wesleyan University
GE

Office Hours:
By appointment

Research Interests:
Literary translation; translator for the German authors G|nter Grass and Peter Handke; German literary exiles

Scholarly Keywords:
--20th-century German and Austrian drama and fiction
--Thomas Mann, Oedoen von Horvath
--The German Volksstueck
--Literary translation

Academic Associations:
AATG
MLA
ALTA
PEN
Society for Exile Studies

Presented paper on "Linguistic Displacement and the Humiliations of Exile: Refugee Writers and their Struggle to be Published"at North American Society for Exile Studies conference at Trinity College, Hartford CT, Sept. 15-17, 2006 Presented paper on "Translating Guenter Grass," Liverpool UK, Sept. 2007 Recent translations published: Peter Handke, "Crossing the Sierra de Gredos" Hans Jonas, "Memoirs" Werner Herzog, "Conquest of the Useless" Peter Handke, "Crossing the Sierra de Gredos," "Don Juan" Guenter Grass, "The Box" In preparation: Guenter Grass, "From Germany to Germany" and "Fifty Years Inside the Artist's Studio"; Peter Handke, "Moravian Night"; Patrick Roth, "Starlite Terrace" Chair of Jury, Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize Chair, Middletown Resource Recycling Commission

Adjunct Professor of German Studies, Emerita

aarnold@wesleyan.edu

MA

Professor of German and Letters, Emeritus

haarnold@wesleyan.edu

PHD University of Wurzburg
MAA Wesleyan University

Professor of German Studies, Emeritus

pfrenzel@wesleyan.edu

BA Yale University
MA Middlebury College
PHD University of Michigan
MAA Wesleyan University

CER University of Freiburg

Office Hours:
M,W 4-5 Fr 12:30-1 and by appointment

Scholarly Keywords:
language teaching
fairy tales
children's literature
radio plays

MAA Wesleyan University