Reflecting the strong interdisciplinary ethos of the University of Chicago, members of the faculty in the Department of Germanic Studies often have joint (or even multiple) appointments in the Humanities, as indicated.
In addition, our affiliated faculty (see below) extends the department's intellectual and disciplinary reach, featuring scholars in Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, History, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology, among others. The department's course offerings reflect the faculty's broad-ranging interests.
Core Faculty and Staff -- Visiting Faculty -- Resource Faculty - Emeriti Faculty
Resource Faculty
Philip V. Bohlman, Ph. D., Mary Werkman Professor of the Humanities and of Music; Chair of the Committee on Jewish Studies
Interests: German-Jewish and German-American ethnomusicology; theory and history of folksong.
John W. Boyer, Ph. D., Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of History; Dean of the College
Interests: German and Austrian history, 18th century to the present; religion and politics in modern European history; European urban history.
Daniel Brudney, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Philosophy
Interests: Marx, German philosophy, Frankfurt School.
James Conant, Ph. D., Professor of Philosophy
Interests:
Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Wittgenstein.
Kathleen Conzen, Ph. D., Professor of History
Interests:
German-American history and the history of international migration.
Constantin Fasolt, Ph. D., Karl J. Weintraub Professor of History; Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division; Deputy Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences; Associate Dean of the College
Interests:
Early modern German history.
Michael Forster, Ph. D., Professor of Philosophy
Interests:
Herder, Hegel.
Michael Geyer, Ph. D., Samuel N. Harper Professor of German and European History
Interests:
German history of the 19th and 20th centuries with special interest in contemporary German and European affairs.
Andreas Glaeser, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Sociology
Interests:
Theories of culture and identity; with reference to Germany mostly post-unification controversies, social memory and architecture, reality construction processes among civil servants in authoritarian regimes.
Mark Hansen, Ph. D., Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Committee on Cinema and Media Studies
Interests:
Phenomenology, media theory.
Miriam Hansen, Ph. D., Ferndinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in Humanities; Professor, Department of English, Cinema and Media Studies
Interests:
Frankfurt School, film theory, German cinema, contemporary German intellectual life, Alexander Kluge.
John Haugeland, Ph. D., Professor of Philosophy
Interests:
Heidegger, philosophy of language.
Gary Herrigel, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Political Science
Interests:
Political economy of advanced industrial states (Germany, USA, Japan), German political and industrial history in the 19th and 20th centuries, social and political theory.
Berthold Hoeckner, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities
Interests:19th century Austro-German music; Lyrik und Lied; Romantische Musikästhetik; Wagner; Adorno and music.
Loren Kruger, Ph. D., Professor, Department of English; Department of Comparative Literature; Committee on African Studies; Committee on Cinema and Media Studies; Committee on Theatre and Performance Studies
Interests:
German literature 18th century to present (esp. drama); GDR and contemporary Germany; Brecht, Heiner Müller, Marxism; the Cold War; Frankfurt School; "Das andere Deutschland."
Jonathan Lear, Ph. D., John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy
Interests:
Freud, Wittgenstein, Heidegger.
Francoise Meltzer, Ph. D., Mabel Greene Meyers Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and the Divinity School; Acting Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities
Interests:
German romanticism, philosophy.
Paul Mendes-Flohr, Ph. D., Professor of Modern Jewish Thought in the Divinity School, Committee on Jewish Studies; Associate Faculty in the Department of History
Interests: German-Jewish intellectual history.
Glenn W. Most, Ph. D., Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought
Interests:
German literature and philosophy since the 18th century.
Robert B. Pippin, Ph. D., Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor; Committee on Social Thought and Department of Philosophy
Interests:
Kant; German Idealism; Nietzsche; Heidegger; Modernity Theory.
Moishe Postone, Ph. D., Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor of History; Committee on Jewish Studies
Interests:
Marx, Frankfurt School, contemporary European social theory, contemporary German affairs (with particular focus on issues of anti-semitism and the relation of the Nazi past to postwar German society and culture).
Robert Richards, Ph. D., Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and Medicine; Professor in the Departments of Philosophy, History, Psychology, and the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
Interests: German Romanticism, history and philosophy of science.
Jarrold Sadock, Ph. D., Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics
Interests:
Germanic languages (Scandinavian, Yiddish).
Malynne Sternstein, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Interests: Central European Studies, Literary, Psychoanalytic and Cultural Theory; Art and Media Theory
David Tracy, Ph. D., Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor of Catholic Studies and Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Religion in the Divinity School; Committee on Social Thought
Interests:
19th century German philosophy and theology.