Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Nathan Drapela
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
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| Eliot Hall 214A
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature; narrative theory; environmental humanities; theories of space, time, and memory.
Jake Fraser
Associate Professor of German and Humanities
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| 503-517-7958
| Eliot Hall 214A
On sabbatical 2024-25.
Eighteenth- to twentieth-century German literature, media history and media theory, literature and science, psychoanalysis.
Katja Garloff
Professor of German and Humanities
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| 503-517-7330
| Eliot Hall 407
On sabbatical 2024-25.
Nineteenth- to twenty-first-century German literature, German Jewish culture, genocide studies, film and media studies, literary and cultural theory.
Jan Mieszkowski
(Chair)
Reginald F. Arragon Professor of German and Humanities
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| Email
| 503-517-7343
| Eliot Hall 420
Romanticism, idealist philosophy, literary and cultural theory, classical political economy, military spectatorship and the aesthetics of war, the poetics of botany.
Irina Simova
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
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| Eliot Hall 407
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century German film, performance, and literature; media and affect theory; eco-criticism; theories of globalization, neoliberalism, and migration.
Visiting Scholar
Jessica Ginocchio
Visiting Scholar
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Russophone and Germanophone fiction, realism, modernism, animal studies, environmental humanities, cognitive literary studies, language pedagogy.
Language Scholar
Marie Sophie Längs
German Language Scholar
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| 503-517-4041
Staff
Charlie Wilcox '16
Faculty Administrative Coordinator
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| 503-517-5131
| Performing Arts Building 133
Emeritus/Emerita Faculty
Ülker Gökberk
Professor of German and Humanities, Emerita
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Dieter Paetzold
Associate Professor of German and Humanities, Emeritus