Evelyn Allgeier

Evelyn received her BA in German and Russian from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2001, where she was also minoring in Business Administration and German. In 2003, she received her MA in German with a minor in TESL from the same university. Since August 2003, she is enrolled in the German program at KU, where she is seeking a PhD in German Applied Linguistics. Currently, she is teaching Intermediate German II.

Contact: lileve@ku.edu

Viktoria Bagi

Viktoria earned her B.A. degree in English at the University of Miskolc and her M.A. in German at the University of Debrecen in Hungary, where she was also specialized in European Studies. Currently, she is a Ph.D-student in German Literature and teaching GERM 108.

Contact: bagiv@ku.edu

Nora Brügmann

Contact: noringo@ku.edu

Melody Harries

Melody received her BA in German in 2003 from KU. She also has a Co-Major in European Studies and a minor in French. Melody is pursuing a Master's degree in German and also working on finishing a BA in French. She is teaching German 108 this semester.

Contact: melodyp@ku.edu

Marianne Hovgaard

Contact: moofy@ku.edu

Glenn Hudspeth

Contact: ghudspeth@sunflower.com

Thorsten Huth

After receiving the MA in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Thorsten Huth has entered the Ph.D. program at KU in 2001, specializing in German Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. With the support of a dissertation fellowship from the Max Kade Foundation, he completed his dissertation which is entitled “Talking Perspective: Conversation Analysis and Culture in the German Foreign Language Classroom” in May 2004. Thorsten’s teaching and research interests revolve around the interconnection of language and culture as it is mediated by language use. His dissertation examines developmental aspects of L2 learners’ pragmatic abilities, using conversation analytic research techniques. Currently, Thorsten teaches German Translation (GERM100) and Advanced German Conversation (GERM444). He furthermore serves as assistant coordinator for the basic German language program.

Contact: huth@ku.edu

Traute Kohler

Contact: tkohler@ku.edu

John Littlejohn

Contact: x7lijo@yahoo.com

Karl Magnuson

Contact: kmag@ku.edu

Jörg Meindl

Jörg Meindl received his MA degree from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 2002. He majored in German and minored in History and Political Science. Jörg is PhD student at the University of Kansas since spring 2003 and his pursuing his dissertation about dialect attitudes in the 18th century. His main interests of research are German dialects, Sociolinguistics and Historical Linguistics. This semester Jörg is teaching German 108.

Contact: meindl@ku.edu

Lisa Mays

Immediately after she finished her coursework for her Phd. in German, she moved to the Dallas/Fort Worth area to teach German and ESL for three years at Northwest High School. Currently, she is ABD and has recently moved back to Lawrence to devote herself full-time to dissertation research. The topic of her dissertation is "Low German-Speaking Mexican Mennonites in Kansas." A very interesting group of Low German speakers that have maintained their language and Mennonite culture and religion for over 200 years, during migrations from West Prussia to Russia, to Canada and on to Mexico, and recently to Kansas.

Contact: frau_mays@yahoo.com

Andrea Némedi

Andrea comes from Hungary, where she received her MA degrees in Comparative Literature (2001), English (2002) and German (2003) from the University of Szeged. Since 2001 Andrea has been enrolled in the Comparative Literature Department’s PhD program of the University of Szeged, where she sought her PhD degree in Literary Theory. Twice had she the opportunity to study in Germany on DAAD scholarships. Fall 1998 Andrea attended the Friedrich Schiller University (Jena), fall 2002 and spring 2003 she studied at the University of Cologne (Köln). This is her first year as a Jayhawker. She enrolled in the KU German Department’s PhD program this fall, where she is seeking a PhD degree in German literature. Her research interest is digital literature, including hyperfiction, multimedia and internet literature. She is especially interested in the question of how the computer as a new medium influences the way literary texts are written and read. This semester she teaches German 104 and German 444.

Contact: anemedi@yahoo.com

Mónika Pacziga

Mónika teaches Hungarian courses under the auspices of the German Department. She is a native Hungarian who studied at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest before coming to KU. She is enrolled as an MA student in the Department of American Studies. Her special research interest is the study of writer Edith Wharton and the era and society she lived in with a special attention to gender issues.

Contact: pacziga@ku.edu

Mike Putnam

Mike is currently a PhD candidate in the department. He is also pursuing an MA in the Linguistics Department at this time. Although Mike's research interests include most subfields of German Linguistics, he is particularly interested in the syntactic structure of past and present West Germanic Languages. In particular, Mike's research centers around the prosody-syntax and semantic-syntax interfaces. His dissertation, Non-lexical Triggers in West Germanic Scrambling, investigates the active role of scopal and prosodic elements in syntactic operations. Mike also serves as one of the principal investigators for the LAKGD Project, and has a particular interest in Pennsylvania German and Yiddish.

The Prepositional Case in German-American Dialects

Contact: mputnam@ku.edu

Jens Rathjen

Jens comes from Bremen, Germany and has studied in the German Department since Fall 1999. He is currently working on the completion of his PhD dissertation about the contemporary Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. His main interests are 20th Century Literature, theatre and film. Jens has taught classes on various levels and is currently instructing two sections of Intermediate German I (GERM 212).

Contact: rathjen@ku.edu

Scott Seeger

G. Scott Seeger is a PhD student immersed in German Dialectology, Socio-linguistics and Speech Island Studies. He received his BA in German from the University of Colorado at Denver in 1995, and his MA in Modern Languages and Literatures/German from Colorado State University in 1997. His particular areas of interest and research are Low German Dialects and Frisian Studies. Scott has extensive experience abroad including 11/2 years of study abroad at the Carl von Ossietsky Universität in Oldenburg. Research abroad includes a year at the Christian-Albrecht Universität in Kiel with The University of Kansas’ Graduate Direct Exchange (GDX) and, most recently, a research scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for 2002-2003 to document language use/interaction in North Friesland. He has functioned as instructor/co-coordinator for the KU’s Summer Langauge Institute in Eutin (2000, 02 and 03). He is the Graduate Student Advisor for the German Club and organizer and coach of the Lawrence Schleuderball Verein. He is currently teaching Beginning German II (German: 109 Honors section).

Contact: gsseeger@hotmail.com

Andrea Weis

Andrea, a native of Mainz, Germany, is currently writing her Ph.D. dissertation in American Studies on German Prisoners of War in American Captivity. Her dissertation is a Cultural Studies informed Oral History project that seeks to find new ways of understanding history, memory, and identity production. Andrea has taught various undergraduate level courses in the English and German Departments at the University of Kansas. She is currently teaching a course on conversational German and a self-designed course in English that explores international and interdisciplinary perspectives of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Next semester, she will teach an English course on Women's Life-Writings and another section of German for Everyday Use.

Contact: anadea@ku.edu