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
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Cornell University

GRST253 - 01
The New German Cinema

GRST255 - 01
Newest German Cinema

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 University
PHD Ludwig Maximilians University

GRST101 - 01
Elementary German

GRST101 - 02
Elementary German

GRST217 - 01
German Culture Today

Personal Homepage:
http://ibork.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:
M/W 1:30p.m.-2:30p.m. F 12:30p.m. - 1:30 p.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:
20th and 21 century literature:Truemmerliteratur, Holocaustliteratur, Migrantenliteratur.Language methodology and technology, and film.

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.

"Resistance in the former GDR," Wesleyan University research grant 2012.

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

GRST102 - 01
Elementary German

GRST102 - 02
Elementary German

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

Faculty Fellow
204

uplass@wesleyan.edu

MA University of Michigan
PHD New York University

CHUM340 - 01
Trials and Judgments in Arendt

GRST214 - 01
Speaking & Writing German

GRST362 - 01
Pop and Literature After 1968

Office Hours:

Thursdays 4:15 to 6:00 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, 2009, 2012

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

Director, Service Learning Center
222 Church Street 305
860-685-3378

Coordinator

kwinston@wesleyan.edu

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

CSPL493 - 01
Internship

GRST301 - 01
Advanced Seminar In German Lit

CSPL493 - 01
Internship

GRST230 - 01
The Simple Life

Office Hours:

M 4:00-5:30 PM and by appointment, Fisk 402: German, Mellon, Fulbright

 F 4:00-6:00 and by appt., Allbritton 305: Service-Learning

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, Vice President

Middletown Recycling Commission, Chair

Leadership Positions:

Jury Member, Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize, 2002-present

Jury chair, 2008-2011

Adjunct Professor of German Studies, Emerita

aarnold@wesleyan.edu

MA

Professor of German and Letters, Emeritus

haarnold@wesleyan.edu

MAA Wesleyan University
PHD University of Wurzburg

Professor of German Studies, Emeritus

pfrenzel@wesleyan.edu

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

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