Degree Programs Offered: Master of Arts, Master of Arts for Teachers, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Martha Helfer, 101-A German House, 64 College Avenue, College Avenue Campus (732/932-7201/7379)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Stephen Bronner, Professor of Political Science, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Politics and culture; philosophical idealism; modern political history; critical theory

Marlene Ciklamini, Professor of German, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
History of the German language; Old Norse literature; medieval studies

Christine Cosentino-Dougherty, Professor of German, FAS-C; Ph.D., Columbia
Literature before and after German unification; expressionism

Belinda Davis, Associate Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Michigan
Twentieth-century German and Europe; history of New Left activism; women's history

Paul Hanebrink, Assistant Professor of History, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Chicago
Modern East Central Europe; the history of nationalism and anti-Semitism as modern political ideologies; religion in the modern nation-state

Martha B. Helfer, Associate Professor of German, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Eighteenth- and 19th-century literature; aesthetic theory; gender studies; German-Jewish studies

Hildburg Herbst, Associate Professor Emerita of German, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Eighteenth-century romanticism; German literature; German cinema

Fatima Naqvi, Assistant Professor of German, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard Twentieth-century German and Austrian literature, culture, and film (post 1945)

Joanna M. Ratych, Professor Emerita of German; FAS-NB; Ph.D., Munich
Contemporary German literature; stylistics

Nicholas A. Rennie, Associate Professor of German, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale Eighteenth- to 20th-century aesthetics; theory

James A. Rushing, Associate Professor of German, FAS-C; Ph.D., Princeton
Medieval studies, 19th- and 20th-century narrative

Jeffrey Shandler, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Yiddish language, literature, and culture; Holocaust representation; Jews and media

Otto J. Zitzelsberger, Professor Emeritus of German, FAS-N; Ph.D., Columbia
German philology and literature prior to 1500