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

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Martha Helfer, Rm. 4125, 15 Seminary Place, College Avenue Campus (848-932-0440)

Website: http://german.rutgers.edu/academics/graduate

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Nicola Behrmann, Assistant Professor of German, SAS; Ph.D., New York
Nineteenth and 20th-century German literature; gender studies; literary theory

Stephen Eric Bronner, Board of Governors Professor of Political Science, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Politics and culture; philosophical idealism; modern political history; critical theory

Belinda Davis, Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Twentieth-century German and European history; history of New Left activism; women's history

Paul Hanebrink, Associate Professor of History, SAS; 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, Professor of German, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Eighteenth- and 19th-century literature; aesthetic theory; gender studies; German-Jewish studies

Michael G. Levine, Professor of German, SAS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Nineteenth- and 20th-century German literature; literary theory; and intellectual history

Fatima Naqvi, Professor of German, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Twentieth- and 21st-century German and Austrian literature and culture; film studies

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

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

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

Andrés Mario Zervigón, Associate Professor of Art History, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
History of photography; German photography