Faculty

German Department faculty combine research strengths in 18th-21st century literature and culture, literary and cultural theory, and Second Language Acquisition with a high level of dedication to teaching and advising.

All German Department faculty teach at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate programs, from first-year instruction to graduate courses in their areas of specialty, and participate in the education of graduate students as teachers.

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Affiliated Faculty

Students of German, both at the graduate and undergraduate levels, also benefit from Georgetown professors in a range of other disciplines who have research expertise pertaining to “things German” (incl. history, literature, art history, philosophy, political science) or in Applied Linguistics.

Faculty News & Announcements

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Faculty, Spring 2025

Faculty News

Prof. Joe Cunningham Prof. Joe Cunningham has been elected to a two-year term as Vice President of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO). His term will begin at the…

May 14, 2025

Faculty, Spring 2025

Recent Faculty Publications

Professor Mary Helen Dupree’s essay “Inventorying the Audible Past: German-Language Recitation Anthologies in the Nineteenth Century” appeared in the anthology Taking Stock. Media Inventories…

May 14, 2025

Announcements, Faculty, PhD Students

German Department at the 2024 GSA Conference

As always, current members and alumni of the German Department will be present and presenting at this year’s German Studies Association Annual Conference held in Atlanta, GA, from September 26-29,…

August 29, 2024