Max Kade Professors & Writers-in-Residence

With the support of the Max Kade Foundation, the German Department is pleased to welcome an alternating Visiting Professor or Writer-in-Residence to the department each academic year.

Current Max Kade Professor

The German Department looks forward to welcoming Dr. Daniel Morat as the Max Kade Professor during the Spring 2027 semester.

Past Max Kade Professors and Writers-in-Residence

Alexander Schimmelbusch

Max Kade Writer-in-Residence
Spring 2026

Dr. Steffen Siegel

Max Kade Professor
Fall 2024

Dr. Mascha Dabić

Max Kade Writer-in-Residence
Spring 2024

Dr. Jens Kugele

Max Kade Professor
Fall 2022

Dr. Judith Nika Pfeifer

Max Kade Writer-in-Residence
Spring 2020

Dr. Andrea Geier

Max Kade Professor
Spring 2019

Christopher Kloeble

Max Kade Writer-in-Residence
Spring 2018

Dr. Doris Bachmann-Medick

Max Kade Professor
Fall 2016

Maxi Obexer

Max Kade Writer-in-Residence
Spring 2016

Dr. Christian Sieg

Max Kade Professor
Spring 2015

Prof. Dr. Hans-Michael Speier

Max Kade Writer-in-Residence
Spring 2014 and Spring 2012

Prof. Dr. Helmut J. Schneider

Max Kade Professor
Spring 2013

Dr. Birgit Dahlke

Max Kade Professor
Spring 2011

Felicitas Hoppe

Max Kade Writer-in-Residence
Spring 2010 and Fall 2008

Peter Schneider

George M. Roth Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
Spring 2001