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Frank
Baron, Ph.D.
Alumnus
of the University of California at Berkeley
Professor
Frank Baron began teaching at the University of Kansas in
1970, after two years of teaching with the Peace Corps in
Ethiopia and an additional two years conducting research in
Munich on German Renaissance and Reformation literary history.
His primary teaching and research interests are in fifteenth-
and sixteenth- century as well as twentieth-century studies.
Baron has published books and articles on various aspects
of the European Faust tradition and on the works of Rainer
Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, and the artist/author
Albert Bloch. He has received grants from the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation,
the German Academic Exchange (DAAD), and the University of
Kansas Hall Center.
Experiences as a child in Hungary during World War II prompted
interest in the topic of the Holocaust and resulted (in collaboration
with Hungarian journalist Sandor Szenes) in a book about Hungary
and Auschwitz.
He is director of the Max
Kade Center for German-American Studies.
Contact:
fbaron@ku.edu
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Heide
Crawford, Ph.D.
Alumna
of Pennsylvania State University
Heide Crawford joined the department in 2003. Her primary
teaching and research interests are the Enlightenment and
the Age of Goethe, which span the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Her specific areas of interest include the representation
of cultural history and folklore in poetry and other literary
genres. Directly related to these areas of interest are her
current research projects on the origins of the literary vampire
in German ballad poetry, as well as the representation of
magic, the occult and the Faust legend in literature. In addition
to her research she participates regularly in national and
international conferences.
Contact:
hac@ku.edu |
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William
D. Keel, Ph.D.
Alumnus
of Indiana University
Professor
and Chair
William D. Keel's primary teaching and research interests
are in German dialectology, Germanic philology, the structure
of Modern German, and German-American studies. He is internationally
recognized as an expert on German settlement dialects (Sprachinseln)
in the American Midwest and has lectured on that subject
at several German universities and the Institut für
deutsche Sprache in Mannheim.
He
is the recipient of German-American collaborative research
grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and
the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Since 1981,
he has served as editor of the Yearbook of German-American
Studies and, since 1986, as a member of the executive
committee of the Society for German-American Studies.
Publications
include co-edited books German Emigration from Bukovina
to the Americas (1996) with Kurt Rein (University of
Munich) and German Language Varieties Worldwide: Internal
and External Perspectives (2003) with Klaus Mattheier
(University of Heidelberg) as well as and a number of articles
treating Hannoverian Low German, German-Bohemian and Mennonite
Low German dialects in Kansas and Missouri as well as the
settlement history of Pennsylvania Germans in Kansas. His
edited work on The Volga Germans of West Central Kansas
is scheduled to be published in spring 2004.
He has been active in the Kansas Association of Teachers
of German for a number of years, serving on the executive
committee 1994-97. Since 1989, he has lectured in numerous
communities in the region as a member of the Speakers' Bureau
of the Kansas Humanities Council. Keel is the recipient
of the Verdienstkreuz am Bande of the Federal Republic
of Germany (1999) for his contributions to German-American
educational and cultural exchanges. Since 1990 he has chaired
the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.
Contact:
wkeel@ku.edu
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Arne
Koch, Ph.D
Alumnus
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professor
Koch received his Ph.D. in German Literature from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and joined the department
in 2001. Specializing in 19th-century literary and cultural
studies, he is particularly fascinated by expressions of
regional and national identities in Poetic Realism (including
the works of Fritz Reuter, Berthold Auerbach, Fontane, Storm,
Keller, and others). Directly related to this research are
his interests in the representation of alternative communities
and theories of narration.
Professor Koch has published on the concept of loyalty in
medieval literature as well as different topics of the nineteenth
century, and he regularly participates at national and international
conferences. In addition to his research and teaching interests,
he was the director of the KU Summer Language Institute
in Eutin/Germany for Summer 2003.
Contact:
akoch@ku.edu
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Leonie
A. Marx, Ph.D
Alumna of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Professor
Marx received her Ph.D. in German, Scandinavian, and Comparative
literature. For two years, she taught Danish language, literature,
and culture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, before
joining the University of Kansas. Her teaching concentrates
on modern German literature, primarily of the twentieth
century; it includes the study of prose fiction, women authors
and interdisciplinary approaches to literature. She has
also taught at universities in Germany and Denmark.
In her research, she combines her interests in German and
Danish literature and German-Scandinavian literary relations.
Among her book publications are a pioneering analysis of
the contemporary Danish author Benny Andersen (English edition,
1983; Danish edition 1986), a comprehensive study of the
German short story since the late nineteenth century (Metzler,
2nd, augmented edition, 1997), a volume focusing on the
literatures of Germany and Scandinavia, co-edited with Herbert
Knust (1989).She has published book chapters, such as: "Der
deutsche Frauenroman im 19. Jahrhundert" (Handbuch des Romans),
"Thomas Mann und die Literaturen Skandinaviens" (Thomas-Mann-Handbuch),
and "Die deutsche Kurzgeschichte" (Formen der Literatur).
She regularly participates in national and international
conferences.
Contact: marx@ku.edu
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Carmen
Taleghani-Nikazm, Ph.D
Alumna of the University of Texas at Austin
Carmen
Taleghani-Nikazm received her Ph.D. from the Department
of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
where she specialized in Applied Linguistics. Her research
interests include Conversation Analysis, particularly grammar
in interaction, cross-cultural interaction, the organization
of offers and requests in German and Persian, and foreign
language pedagogy. She teaches courses in German Applied
Linguistics and Sociolinguistics.
In
addtion to her research and teaching responsibilites, Professor
Taleghani-Nikazm also coordinates the Elementary
and Intermediate German Language Program.
For
copies of grading key, grading criteria, student survey,
and collection of exercises go to our "German Language
Teaching Materials" website at Blackboard.
Contact:
nikazm@ku.edu
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| Professors
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Professor
Emeritus Ernst S. Dick, Dr. Phil.
Alumnus of the University of Münster
Professor
Ernst Dick teaches Germanic philology, medieval literature,
and modern German. Before joining the German department at
Kansas in 1968, he taught at the University of Virginia. For
shorter periods he was also affiliated with Johns Hopkins
University, the University of Montana, and the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
His primary research interests are Germanic word studies and
medieval German literature, especially in epic and romance.
In the modern period, he pursues reception studies of medieval
epic, but is also interested in the Novelle and in
modern drama (Dürrenmatt).
His
major publications include an etymological and semantic study
on central terms of Germanic religion and culture (Ae.
DRYHT und seine Sippe), several co-edited books, and numerous
articles on medieval German literature, Germanic philology,
reception studies, and folklore. Reflecting his secondary
interest in modern literature, he has also published articles
on Annette von Droste-Hüllshoff and Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Contact:
esdick@ku.edu
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Professor
Emeritus Helmut E. Huelsbergen Dr. Phil.
Alumnus
of the University of Köln
Contact:
huelsber@ku.edu
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Professor
Emeritus Warren Maurer, Ph.D.
Alumnus of the University of California-Berkeley
Contact: german@ku.edu
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Associate
Professor Emeritus Henry F. Fullenwider, Ph.D.
Alumnus of the University of California-Davis
Contact:
hfullenw@cc.helsinki.fi
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Rex
Clark , Ph.D.
Alumnus
of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rex
Clark received an M.A. from the Freie Universität Berlin
and completed his Ph.D. studies at the University of Illinois.
His research areas are 18th-century travel literature and
utopian fiction, history of the novel, definitions of culture
in German thought, and representations of colonialism in German
literature. He has also worked extensively with instructional
technology and language learning, serving from 1999-2001 on
the Technology Committee of the American Association of Teachers
of German (AATG). He has helped create the Alexander von Humboldt
Digital Library project at the Max Kade Center for German-American
Studies.
Rex
Clark's Homepage: http://www.ku.edu/home/rexclark/
Contact:
rexclark@ku.edu
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Jim
Morrison
Alumnus
of the University of Kansas
Jimmy
D. Morrison has over twenty years experience in international
business, both in the United States, Europe and South America.
He has dealt in international transportation, telecommunications,
data transmission, power generation and distribution as
well as the automotive industry.
Mr.
Morrison is currently involved in lecturing at the University
of Kansas on international business issues as well as German
business culture. He is also Associate Director of the Center
for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)
at the university
Mr.
Morrison holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Kansas
and attended the Universitaet Erlangen/Nürnberg. He
is certified by the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce
as an "Industriekaufmann" after having completed
an accredited program with Siemens in Germany covering all
aspects of commercial administration.
Mr.
Morrison has served as member of the board of directors
of the American Public Transit Association (APTA) as well
as the Railway Progress Institute (RPI) governing board.
He currently sits on the advisory board of the Max-Kade
Center for German-American Studies at the University of
Kansas and the university's Center for International Business
Education and Research (CIBER).
Contact:
jdmorr@ku.edu
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| Courtesy
Instructors |
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D.
Chris Johnson, Ph.D.
Alumnus of the University of Kansas
Courtesy
Assistant Professor Chris Johnson is an Associate Director
in the Office of Student Financial Aid.
In
addition, he teaches the Introduction to Old Norse course.
His research activities are primarily focused on German
Dialects in Kansas.
Contact:
cjohnson@ku.edu
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Pieter
Berendsen
Almunus of the University
of California, Riverside.
Contact:
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Mark
Nesbitt-Daly , Ph.D.
Alumnus
of the University of Kansas
Contact:
mdaly@ku.edu
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