Faculty

Lisa Lampert-Weissig, Director, German Studies Program. Professor Lampert-Weissig joined UCSD in 2002. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature. A specialist in medieval literature, she has also published on modern German-Jewish literature and on medieval anti-Semitism. Her current research project includes treatment of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival.

Frank Biess joined UCSD in 2000 and is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. His research has focused on the social, political, and cultural history of 20th Century Germany. His book Homecomings. Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany was published in 2006 by Princeton University Press. He teaches courses on Modern German, Italian, and European History.

Elizabeth Bredeck, Lecturer in German, came to UCSD in 1992. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of German-Austrian Modernism and language philosophy, and she has written a book on the philosopher of language Fritz Mauthner. She also directs the Intermediate German language sequence in the German Studies Program.

Fatima El-Tayeb is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature. Her teaching and research interests include (Black) European History. Publications include Schwarze Deutsche: Der Diskurs um 'Rasse' und nationale Indentität: 1890-1933.

William M. Chandler, Professor of Political Science.

Harvey S. Goldman, Professor of Sociology

Michael O. Hardimon, Associate Professor of Philosophy.

Deborah Hertz, Professor of History.

Edda Hodnett, Lecturer in the Department of Literature.

Todd C. Kontje came to UCSD in 1991 and is Professor of German and Comparative Literature in the Department of Literature. He has published books on Schiller's aesthetics, the German novel, women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries, and German Orientalisms. He has also edited a volume of essays on German Realism. From July 2006 to June 2008 he will serve as the Study Center Director of the UC Education Abroad Program in Goettingen, Germany.

Wm. Arctander O'Brien, Associate Professor of German & Comparative Literature, joined UCSD in 1986. His research has concentrated on German Romanticism and Idealistic Philosophy, and he published Novalis: Signs of Revolution in 1995. He teaches German literature from the 18th to the 20th century, as well as philosophy and critical theory, especially Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and the Frankfurt School.

Frederick A. Olafson, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy

Armin Owzar, History Department Visiting DAAD Professor (2007-2009)

Esra Özyürek, Associate Professor, Anthropology

Carol Plantamura, Professor of Music

Laurel A. Plapp, Lecturer in the Department of Literature

John Rouse joined UCSD in 1996 and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance. His research includes modern and contemporary German theatre and drama; he is a regular visitor to the Berlin Theatertreffen festival.

Donald P. Rutherford, Professor of Philosophy.

Jane R. Stevens has been teaching Music History at UCSD since 1990. One of the few members of the Music Department who focus on the history of European music, she works especially with German music of the 17th to the 19th centuries. Her most recent book is The Bach Family and the Keyboard Concerto: Evolution of a Genre (2001).

Tracy B. Strong, Professor of Political Science.

Cynthia Walk is an Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Literature. Her work on 20th-century German Literature, Culture, and Film includes a current research project on Theatre and Cinema: Cross-Media Exchange in Weimar Culture.

Eric Watkins joined the German Studies Program at UCSD in 2001 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He pursues research in 18th Century German philosophy, especially that of Immanuel Kant, publishing articles in the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie and Kant-Studien, among others. His most recent publication is Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He also served as the editor of Kant and the Sciences (Oxford University Press, 2001), and supervising editor for the Dictionary of 18th Century German Philosophers.