GERMAN STUDIES CONSORTIUM

Faculty

Dr. Helga Braunbeck, Associate Professor
North Carolina State University
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
Focus: Contemporary German Literature

Dr. Raymond Burt, Professor
Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Focus: 18th Century German Literature, German Folklore &
Contemporary Austrian Literature

Dr. Ruth Gross, Professor and
Head of the Department of Foreign Languages
North Carolina State University
Ph.D. Yale University
Focus: 20th Century Austrian and German Literature, Kafka,
Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, and Modernism

Dr. Alexandra Hellenbrand, Associate Professor
Chair of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Appalachian State University
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Focus: German and Medieval Studies

Dr. Birgit Jensen, Assistant Professor
East Carolina University
Ph.D. Ohio State University
Focus: 19th Century German Literature, Autobiography, Women Writers

Dr. Kevin Kennedy, Associate Professor
Appalachian State University
Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Focus: Goethe, German history, German-Caribbean Studies, German film
 

Dr. Andreas Lixl, Professor and Department Head
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Focus: Autobiographies, Weimar, Technology

Dr. Beverly Moser, Associate Professor
and Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty
Appalachian State University
Ph.D. Georgetown University
Focus: German and Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition,
Language Pedagogy, Teaching English as a Second Language

Dr. Barry Salwen, Associate Professor
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
D.M.A., Julliard School
Focus: Music, German Jewish History

Dr. David L. Smith, Assistant Professor of German
East Carolina University
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Focus: 17^th and 18^th centuries; literary and cultural theory; gender studies;
business German; orality and literacy

Dr. S. Elizabeth Snyder, Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Ph.D., Harvard University
Focus: 20th Century Literature and Culture; Holocaust Studies, and German cinema.

Dr. Oliver Speck, Associate Professor
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Ph.D. University of Mannheim
Focus: Film and Media Theory, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, Business German

Dr. Henry R. Stern, Professor of German
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Focus: German culture and civilization, contemporary Germany, historical linguistics.

Dr. Olga Trokheminko, Assistant Professor of German
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Ph.D., Duke University
Focus: Medieval German Literature
 

Dr. Jill Twark, Assistant Professor
East Carolina University
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Focus: GDR Literature, post 1945 literature, post-unification literature, and pop literature.

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In Memoriam

Dr. Miles McGinty, Visiting Assistant Professor
 Ed.D., University of Georgia
Western Carolina University