Faculty

Cori Crane
Associate Professor of the Practice and German Language Program Director
116D - Old Chemistry (919) 660-3170Home Institution: Duke University
Specializations
- Pedagogy
- Linguistics
- Applied Linguistics

Eric Downing
Gerhard L. Weinberg Distinguished Professor of German, English and Comparative Literature; Adjunct Professor of Classics
Dey Hall 436Home 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

Stefani Engelstein
Professor of German
116C Old Chemistry (919) 660-3173Home Institution: Duke University
Specializations
- Critical Race Studies
- Political Theory
- Jewish Studies
- Literary and Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature
- Science and Culture
- Intellectual and Cultural History
- Gender Studies
- Aesthetics
- Ancient-Modern Relations
- Romanticism and Idealism
- Nineteenth Century
- Eighteenth Century

Kata Gellen
Associate Professor of German
116B Old Chemistry (919) 660-3168Home Institution: Duke University
Specializations
- Music and Sound
- Jewish Studies
- Film, Media and Visual Studies
- Austrian Studies
- Twentieth Century
- Modernism

Bryan Gilliam
Professor of Music and Germanic Languages and Literatures
067 Mary Duke Biddle (919) 660-3321Home Institution: Duke University
Specializations
- Music and Sound
- Austrian Studies
- Twentieth Century

Clayton Koelb
Guy B. Johnson Distinguished Professor of German; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Dey Hall 443Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Specializations
- Modernism
- Realism
- Aesthetics
- Literary and Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature

Richard Langston
Professor
Dey Hall 430Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Specializations
- Political Theory
- Literary and Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature
- Film, Media and Visual Studies
- Twentieth Century
- Modernism
- Twenty-First Century

Priscilla Layne
Associate Professor of German
Dey Hall 424Home 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

Laura Lieber
Associate Professor of Religion and Germanic Languages and Literatures; Assistant Director, Duke Center for Jewish Studies; Director, Duke-UNC Center for Late Ancient Studies
118B Old Chemistry (919) 660-3510Home Institution: Duke University
Specializations
- Poetics
- Jewish Studies
- Medieval and Early Modern

Jakob Norberg
Associate Professor of German
116H Old Chemistry (919) 660-3161Home Institution: Duke University
Specializations
- Political Theory
- Intellectual and Cultural History
- Twentieth Century
- Nineteenth Century

Thomas Pfau
Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English; Professor of German and Member of the Duke Divinity School Faculty
116E Old Chemistry (919) 681-3098Home Institution: Duke University
Specializations
- Music and Sound
- Literary and Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature
- Romanticism and Idealism
- Nineteenth Century
- Modernism
Henry Pickford
Associate Professor of German
116K Old Chemistry (919) 660-3089Home Institution: Duke University
Specializations
- Political Theory
- Literary and Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature
- Aesthetics

David Pike
Professor of German
Dey Hall 434Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Specializations
- Twentieth Century
- GDR
Inga Pollmann
Associate Professor of German and English & Comparative Literature
Dey Hall 420Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Specializations
- Literary and Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature
- Science and Culture
- Film, Media and Visual Studies
- Aesthetics
- Twentieth Century
- Modernism
- Twenty-First Century

Sarah Pourciau
Assistant Professor
Old Chem. - 116L 660-3162Home Institution: Duke University
Specializations
- Aesthetics
- Theology
- Music and Sound
- Literary and Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature
- Science and Culture
- Twentieth Century
- Nineteenth Century
- Modernism

Aleksandra Prica
Assistant Professor of German
Dey Hall 432Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Specializations
- Aesthetics
- Historical Processes
- Philosophy
- Literary Theory
- Poetology and Hermeneutics
- Theology
- Premodern Media
- Medieval and Early Modern

Paul Roberge
Professor of Germanic Languages, Joint Professor of Linguistics, Chair, Department of Linguistics
Dey Hall 441Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Specializations
- Linguistics

Gabriel Trop
Associate Professor of German
Dey Hall 439Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Specializations
- Poetics
- Literary and Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature
- Science and Culture
- Aesthetics
- Romanticism and Idealism
- Eighteenth Century

Ruth von Bernuth
Seymour & Carol Levin Distinguished Term Professor; Director of Carolina Center for Jewish Studies
Dey Hall 423Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Specializations
- Yiddish
- Popular Culture
- Jewish Studies
- Science and Culture
- GDR
- Disability Studies
- Medieval and Early Modern

Ingeborg Walther
Associate Professor of the Practice in German and Associate Dean, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
116J Old Chemistry (919) 660-3163Home Institution: Duke University
Specializations
- Pedagogy
- Music and Sound
- Linguistics
- Theater and Performance Studies
- Twentieth Century

Christina Weiler
Teaching Assistant Professor & Language Program Director
UNC- Chapel Hill - Dey Hall - 414Home Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Specializations
- Romanticism and Idealism
- Nineteenth Century
- Eighteenth Century