German Department

Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Jake Fraser

Associate Professor of German and Humanities
Email | 503-517-7958 | Eliot Hall 214A

Eighteenth- to twentieth-century German literature, media history and media theory, literature and science, psychoanalysis.

Katja Garloff (Chair)

Moe and Izetta Tonkon Professor of German Studies, Jewish Studies, and Humanities
Email | 503-517-7330 | Eliot Hall 407

Nineteenth- to twenty-first-century German literature, German Jewish culture, genocide studies, film and media studies, literary and cultural theory.

Jan Mieszkowski

Reginald F. Arragon Professor of German and Humanities
Website | 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.

Visiting Scholar

Irina Simova

Visiting Scholar
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Twentieth- and twenty-first-century German film, performance, and literature; media and affect theory; eco-criticism; theories of globalization, neoliberalism, and migration.

Staff

Charlie Wilcox '16

Faculty Administrative Coordinator
Email | 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