FACULTY IN GERMAN

GANEVA-Mila

Dr. Mila Ganeva, Associate Professor, Ph. D. German Studies, University of Chicago (2000). Her research and teaching interests include literature and culture of the Weimar Republic, film history, and contemporary German film. She has published articles on fashion journalism, fashion photography, and mannequins, early German film comedies, and Berlin in film. She is author of the book Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933 (Camden House, 2008). Member of the Film Studies and Jewish Studies Programs.

JEEP-John Dr. John M. Jeep, Associate Professor, Ph.D. German literature, University of Chicago. Director of Medieval Studies, editor of Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia ( 2001); author of Alliterating Word-pairs in Old High German (1995); articles on the role of women in early German literature, Notker Labeo and modern bibliographic practice; medieval rhetoric.
KOZOCHKINA-Evgenia Ms. Evgenia Kozochkina, Instructor, Junior Faculty in Residence
SANDERS-Ruth Dr. Ruth H. Sanders, Professor and Chief Department Adviser; Ph.D. Germanic Languages and Literatures, State University of Stony Brook, New York. Editorial board, CALICO; editor of Familiengeschichten ( 2004); editor of Thirty Years of Computer-Assisted Instruction: Festschrift for John R. Russell (1996); articles on computer parsing of German, artificial intelligence in computer-assisted instruction.
SHEN-Qinna Dr. Qinna Shen, Visiting Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Yale University. Research interests incude 20th century German literature and film, and the German fairy tale. She is currently working on a book project on East German Fairy Tale Films.
STROINIGG-Dieter Dr. Dieter Stroinigg, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in German Literature, University of Cincinnati. Pedagogy of German language.
THESZ-Nicole Dr. Nicole Thesz, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; articles on German authors Günther Grass and Thomas Mann.


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DiDONATO-Robert

Dr. Robert Di Donato, Professor and Chair of Spanish and Portuguese. Frequent keynote speaker at national and state professional conferences; co-author of Deutsch: Na Klar!; developer and on-screen host of the PBS and cable telecourse Fokus Deutsch ; chief academic and series developer of the college text series Fokus Deutsch and the high-school text series Auf Deutsch; co-author of The Big Yellow Book of German Verbs (2005).

EMERITI

Dr. Michael Bachem
Dr. Gisela E. Bahr
Dr. Peter E. Carels
Dr. Marion L. Miller
Dr. Edward M.V. Plater
Mr. David C. Siebenhar
Dr. Audrone B. Willeke