GERMAN PROGRAM
	Faculty

Thomas C. Fox, Ph.D.
Professor of German, Department Chair
Director of Alabama in Germany 2012
200 B.B. Comer; (205) 348-5054 | email |
Research Interests: 19th & 20th century literature, women writers, East German literature, and Holocaust studies.

Jeffrey P. Guenther, M.A.
Instructor of German, Undergraduate Advisor (for student last names L-Ri) and Advisor orr German Club
215 B.B. Comer; (205) 348-5055 | email |
Research Interests: FL Pedagogy.

Viktoria Harms , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of German, Delta Phi Alpha
263b B.B. Comer; (205) 348-9067 | email |
Research Interests: 18th and early 19th-century literature, gender studies, women writers around 1800.

Steve Krause , M.A.
Instructor of German
263 B.B. Comer; (205) 348-7652 | email |
Research Interests:18th and early 20th-century literature, aesthetics, philosophy; Kant, Goethezeit, Hofmannsthal..

Rasma Lazda, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of German, Graduate Advisor for German and Study Abroad, Scholarships, German Day, Goethe Institute Language Exams
220 B.B. Comer; (205) 348-6954 | email | web |
Research Interests: Medieval German studies, Early Modern, representation of war, language and culture acquisition.

Douglas Lightfoot, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of German, Director of German Program, Undergraduate Advisor (for student last names A-K), Language Program Director for German
224 B.B. Comer; (205) 348-6608 | email | cv |
Research Interests: Foreign language teaching methodology, second language acquisition theory, historical linguistics, grammaticalization, cognitive linguistics.

Elaine Martin, Ph.D.
Professor of German, Director of the German House and the Program in Comparative & World Literature, Undergraduate Advisor (for student last names Ro-Z)
213 B.B. Comer; (205) 348-8520 | email | web |
Research Interests: Romanticism: literature, art, and music; Post-1945 literature, art, and film; theory/practice of literary adaptation; women writers.


Emeriti:

Christel Bell, M.A.
emerita | email
former Director of the German summer program Alabama in Austria.

Robert F. Bell, Ph.D.
emeritus | email
Research Interests: 17th century poetry, Novelle, Exile Novelle (ca. 1933-1945).

Mary Gray Porter, Ph.D.
emerita | email

Affiliated Faculty:

Catherine Davies, Ph.D.
Department of English | email | web |
Research Interests: Interactional Sociolinguistic Approaches to Cross-Cultural Communication, Discourse Analysis, and Southern American Discourse.

James D. Mixson, Ph.D.
Department of History | email | web |
Research Interests: Medieval Europe, Religious Movements, Medieval Cultural History, Material Culture and Consumption.

Louis A. Pitschmann, Ph.D.
Dean of Libraries | email |
Research Interests: Germanic Philology.

Daniel Riches, Ph.D.
Department of History | email | web |
Research Interests: Early Modern European History (especially Central and Northern Europe), Military and Diplomatic History, Interaction of Religion and Diplomacy, Interpersonal Networks, History of Higher Education.

Thomas T. Sawallis, Ph.D.
Department of English | email |
Research Interests: Phonetics, Perception and Acquisition of Speech, Sound Change, and Bilingualism.

Janek Wasserman, Ph.D.
Department of History | email |
Research Interests: Austrian Intellectual History, Modern German History

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