Graduate Faculty
Our Ph.D. program draws on faculty expertise in German literature, aesthetics, history, and culture. Within the Department German Studies, our faculty members represent a broad range of research areas, but we also encourage interdisciplinary work with faculty from other departments.
We are fortunate to have an exciting roster of Brown faculty members across departments whose research intersects in various ways with German Studies. They offer graduate seminars that our students take, and also serve on exam and dissertations committees.
Below is a listing of faculty, both within and outside of the department, who are available to work with our graduate students.
FACULTY WITHIN DEPARTMENT |
Omer Bartov
John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History, Professor of German Studies
The
history of genocide; politics of memory |
Susan Bernstein
Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies
German, French, and English and American literature of the 18th through 20th centuries; literary theory, literature and the arts (specifically music and architecture), Romanticism, philosophy, and poetry. |
Thomas Kniesche
Associate Professor of German Studies
Modern German literature, intellectual history, literary theory, and psychoanalysis |
Kevin McLaughlin
Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres, Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and German Studies
19th-Century European and American Literature; Literature and Philosophy (also Comparative Literature) |
Carol Jean Poore
Professor of German Studies
20th century German literature and culture, literature and history, and disability studies. |
Zachary Sng
Associate Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature
18th and 19th century literature and philosophy in Britain and Germany; rhetoric, literary theory, and the history of aesthetics. |
Jane Sokolosky
Senior Lecturer in German Studies
Language pedagogy; computer-mediated language instruction; language learning and technology; turn-of-the-century Austrian literature |
Michael P. Steinberg
Director of Cogut Humanities Center, Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, Professor of Music and German Studies
Modern European cultural and intellectual history, German Jewish history, the history and theory of modernity, politics and the arts, and the cultural history of music |
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FACULTY IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS |
Mary Gluck
Professor of History
Intellectual history of avant-garde art, the social history of urban modernity and bohemia, and the cultural history of the Jewish Question |
Dana Gooley
Associate Professor of Music
19th-century European musical culture; the role of charisma in the public sphere of 19th century Europe; jazz history |
Kenneth Haynes
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics
The classical tradition in European literature and philosophy since the Renaissance, with particular attention to German and British Hellenism |
Marc Redfield
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
British, American, French, and German literature and literary theory of the 18th through 20th centuries, with a particular focus on romanticism; history, philosophy, and politics of post-romantic aesthetics;
identity and intersubjectivity |
Bernard Reginster
Professor of Philosophy
Ethics, metaethics, and moral psychology in 19th century German philosophy |
Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Italian and German literature of the 19th and 20th centuries; psychoanalysis; literary and cultural theory; the construction of gender. |
Adam Teller
Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies
The history of the Jews in early modern Europe, Jewish economic history and the history of the Jewish family. |
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