Faculty

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

Professor, Film Studies
860-685-3379

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

llensing@wesleyan.edu

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

GRST252 - 01
Weimar Cinema in Context

GRST273 - 01
Freud's Vienna

GRST253 - 01
The New German Cinema

GRST381 - 01
Viennese Modernism

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

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:
M/W/F 1:30p.m.-2:30p.m. or by appointment

Research Interests:
Migration Literature in Germany and Its Role in the 21st Century. Kurzfilme and its use in the Foreign Language Classroom; Jewish Life in Germany Today; Historical Research: "Widerstand in Werder (Havel) und Berlin 1945-1956"

Scholarly Keywords:
19th and 20th century literature: "Tr|mmerliteratur, Holocaustliteratur, Migrantenliteratur." Language methodology and technology.

Academic Associations:
AATG ACTFL CT-COLT MaFLA NERALLT

Grants:
"Neuer Blick Neue Stimmen" a grant by the German government and Wesleyan University for attending a two-week educational seminar in Berlin to create teaching materials for the German classroom 2011

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

Leadership Positions:

AATG- Testing Chair and Member of the Trainernetzwerk-Ost

BA Wesleyan University
MA Washington University
PHD Washington University

GRST211 - 01
Intermediate German

GRST211 - 02
Intermediate German

GRST214 - 01
Speaking & Writing German

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

uplass@wesleyan.edu

MA University of Michigan
PHD New York University

GRST251 - 01
Kafka: Literature, Law, Power

GRST360 - 01
Violence and Representation

GRST240 - 01
The Ends of Empire

GRST261 - 01
Reading Nietzsche

Office Hours:
Wednesdays 12:30 to 2:30 and by appointment

Research Interests:
Current book project: Representing Damaged Life: Los Angeles and the Americanization of German Culture and Critical Theory, 1936-1950. 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

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

GRST230 - 01
The Simple Life?

Office Hours:
By appointment during the 2011-12 academic year.

Research Interests:
Literary translation; translator for the German authors Guenter 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

Board Memberships:
The Jonah Center, Middletown CT

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