Eric Downing

Gerhard L. Weinberg Distinguished Professor of German, English and Comparative Literature; Adjunct Professor of Classics

edowning@email.unc.edu

Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Specializations

• Literary and Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature
• Aesthetics
• Ancient-Modern Relations
• Realism
• Twentieth Century
• Nineteenth Century
• Modernism
• Eighteenth Century

Kata Gellen

Associate Professor of German

kata.gellen@duke.edu

Home Institution: Duke University

Specializations

• Music and Sound
• Jewish Studies
• Film, Media and Visual Studies
• Austrian Studies
• Twentieth Century
• Modernism

Clayton Koelb

Guy B. Johnson Distinguished Professor of German; Professor of English and Comparative Literature

ckoelb@email.unc.edu

Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Specializations

• Literary and Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature
• Aesthetics
• Realism
• Modernism

Priscilla Layne

Associate Professor of German

playne@email.unc.edu

Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Specializations

• Critical Race Studies
• Popular Culture
• Music and Sound
• Turkish-German and Afro-German
• Gender Studies
• Film, Media and Visual Studies
• GDR
• Twentieth Century
• Twenty-First Century

Adi Nester

adines@email.unc.edu

Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Specializations

• Philosophy
• Theories of Language and Translation
• Theology
• Political Theory
• Music and Sound
• Jewish Studies
• Twentieth Century
• Nineteenth Century

Thomas Pfau

Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English; Professor of German and Member of the Duke Divinity School Faculty

pfau@duke.edu

Home Institution: Duke University

Specializations

• Music and Sound
• Literary and Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature
• Romanticism and Idealism
• Nineteenth Century
• Modernism

David Pike

Professor of German

dpike@email.unc.edu

Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Specializations

• Twentieth Century
• GDR

Sarah Pourciau

Assistant Professor

sarah.pourciau@duke.edu

Home Institution: Duke University

Specializations

• Aesthetics
• Theology
• Music and Sound
• Literary and Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature
• Science and Culture
• Twentieth Century
• Nineteenth Century
• Modernism

Paul Roberge

Professor of Germanic Languages, Joint Professor of Linguistics, Chair, Department of Linguistics

ptr@email.unc.edu

Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Specializations

• Linguistics

Ruth von Bernuth

Seymour & Carol Levin Distinguished Term Professor; Director of Carolina Center for Jewish Studies

rvb@email.unc.edu

Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Specializations

• Yiddish
• Popular Culture
• Jewish Studies
• Science and Culture
• GDR
• Disability Studies
• Medieval and Early Modern