placement

 

The Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages successfully assists students who have received a Ph.D. in their search for acacemic positions. The following list demonstrates the German Deparmtent’s excellent placement record in the recent past:

 

Holly H. Liu (Ph.D 2004), Assistant Professor of German at Alma College, Michigan

Regina Schwarzmeier (Ph.D. 2005), Associate Professor of German at Belmont University, Nashville

Brian McInnis (Ph.D. 2006), Assistant Professor of German, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York

Robert Jenkins (Ph.D. 2007), Assistant Professor of German at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Mark P. Lee (Ph.D. 2007), Assistant Professor of Music and German at Columbia State College, Tennessee

Carola Daffner (Ph.D. 2007), Assistant Professor of German at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Mark Looney (Ph.D. 2010), Lecturer at Iowa State University, Ames

Robert Kelz (Ph.D. 2010), Assistant Professor of German at the University of Memphis, Tennessee

Maria Ebner (ABD), Lecturer at Fordham University, New York

Betrix Brockman (Ph.D. 2012), Assistant Professor of German, Austin Peay State University, Tennessee

Gesa Froemming (Ph.D. 2011), Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wellesley College, Massachusetts

Kathrin Seidl-Gomez (Ph.D. 2011), Assistant Professor of German, Brandeis University, Massachusetts

Elizabeth Weber (Ph.D. 2012), Assistant Director of Graduate Student Development, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

 

recent dissertations

 

Beatrix M. Brockman (2012): “Nur fliegend fängt man Worte ein”: Eva Strittmatters Poetik

Wesley B. Lim (2012): Dancing in the City. Scenes from the Works of Endell, Rilke, Döblin, and Lasker-Schüler

Gesa Frömming (2011): Pastorale. Musik, Melancholie und die Kunst der Selbstregierung im Werk von Christoph Martin Wieland

Andrea Eder Poling (2009): Retrospektive Selbst-und Zeitdarstellung in Exilautobiographien: Stefan Heym, Susanne Leonhard, Hilde Spiel, Carl Zuckmayer