• Patrick Fortmann, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Harvard University). The primary emphasis of his research lies in 18th- and 19th-century literature and culture, with Munich and Prague Modernism forming a second specialization. His work balences Aesthetic investigations with inquires into the cultural semantics of Old-Europe and investigates the poetics of science, literary performances, the modern reception of the Middle-Ages, and the political imaginary. (fortmann@uic.edu)

Modernity, gender, visual cultures, and law in film. Currently working on a study of the relationship between police work and film culture in Germany's Weimar Republic.

(sahall@uic.edu).

• Helga W. Kraft, Professor (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley). German Studies (focus 18th - 21th-century); specializing in women in German literature gender theory, German drama. Expertise in second language acquisition. Past Head of Germanic Studies at UIC (1997-2004); past editor of Women in German Yearbook. Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture (2004-2007). (kraft@uic.edu)

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• Elizabeth Loentz Associate Professor (Ph.D. Ohio State University). German-Jewish studies, minority literatures, Yiddish culture, women's writing, late 19th to 21st century literature.
  Recent publications include:
  Let Me Continue to Speak the Truth: Bertha Pappenheim as Author and Activist (2007)
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  Beyond Klezmer: The Legacy of Eastern European Jewry, a special issue of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, co-edited with Sander L. Gilman (2006).
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  Current projects include a study of Yiddish in Germany from the fin-de-siècle to the new millennium and a study of Yiddish secular schools in Chicago.(loentz@uic.edu)

Research and teaching foci: German and Austrian 19th and 20th century literature and culture; German-Jewish writing; Holocaust literature and film. Lorenz was the editor of The German Quarterly (1997 to 2003). Book publications include Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers (1997), Verfolgung bis zum Massenmord. Diskurse zum Holocaust in deutscher Sprache (1992), and Grillparzer. Dichter des sozialen Konflikts (1986) and edited volumes, From Fin-de-Siecle to Theresienstadt: The Works and Life of the Writer Elsa Porges-Bernstein (2007), with Helga W. Kraft; A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti (2004), A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler (2003), Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria (1999). (dlorenz@uic.edu).

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Research focus: Second Language Aquisition, lexical development, development of formulaic sequences and lexical collocations, interrelationship between lexicon and grammer, the effect of classroom interventions, and CALL.

My main research focus is the encoding, storage and retrival of individual lexical items, phraseologisms and lexico-grammatical constructions. My studies are based on linguistic descriptions and cognitive processes outlined in Construction Grammer. In particular, I investigate how form-meaning mappings develop across interrelated continua that mark partial to complete, weak to robust, and non-target like to language use by second language learners in an instructed learning setting. I assess the effect of linguistic aspects, such as length and morphosyntactic complexity, cognitive aspects, such as attention and phonological working memory capacity and instructional aspects, such as awareness-raising and the effort of frequency. (srott@uic.edu).   

Eighteenth-century literature and history and philosophy of science (tantillo@uic.edu).CV

My research focuses on Central European literature and culture with a special emphasis on the Bohemian Lands in the pre-modern and modern periods. Anne’s Bohemia: Czech Literature and Society, 1310-1420 (1998) was the first general study in English of a vernacular literature, which, by the fourteenth century, had achieved the sophistication and range of its continental counterparts. A Blessed Shore: England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare (2007) is a comparative and interdisciplinary study of real and imagined relations between England and Bohemia from the fourteenth to seventeenth century. The third volume in this loosely conceived trilogy-- The Bohemian Body. Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture (2007)-- examines the intersection between generic, sexual, and national constructions of the self in the formation of modern Czech identity. Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City  treats Prague as a discursive space in which the physical and imagined contours of the city become inextricably intertwined in the writings of Apollinaire, Bachmann, Camus, Hrabal, Kafka, Kundera, Meyrink, Perutz, Rilke, and Sebald.

(alfredt@uic.edu)

German Philosophy. Past President of the Hegel Society of America. (rrw@uic.edu).

• Anna Guillemin, Visiting Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Princeton University) Eighteen- to twentieth-century German and Comparative Literature, visual studies, aesthetic theory, the poetics of architecture and style. (aguillem@uic.edu)

• Ruth Beckermann, Internationally acclaimed Austrian filmmaker, and Visiting Scholar, Fall 2002.
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• Monika Treut, Internationally acclaimed German filmmaker, and Visiting Scholar, Fall 2001 (MTreut@aol.com).

• Sally Sedgwick, Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D. University of Chicago).  German idealism, theoretical and practical philosophies of Kant and Hegel. (sedgwick@uic.edu).

• Kay-Eduardo Gonzalez-Vilbazo Assistant Professor for Linguistics in the department for Spanish, French, Italian and Portugese (Ph.D. University of Colonge, Germany).  Formal linguistics (syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics). (kgv@uic.edu).

• Carmel Chiswick, Professor in the Department of Economics (Ph.D. Columbia University). Economic Development, Labor Economics, Economics of Religion, Economic History, Economic Demography, Economic Theory. (cchis@uic.edu)

• Primus-Heinz Kucher, Professor of German Literature at the Univ. of Klagenfurt (A) and Visiting Max Kade Professor Fall 2008.
• Main research interests: German, Austrian and Central European Literatures in the 19th- and 20th-centuries; Emigration and Exile-Studies (from Sealsfeild up to Vertlib), Jewish Studies, Literary Translation (Triest), Co-coordinator of www.literaturepochen.at/exil
• Recent book publications: Ungleichzeitige/verspätete Moderne (2002), Alfredo Bauer: Anders als die anderen (2004), A.v. Tschabuschnigg: Literatur und Politik zwischen Vormärz und Neoabsolutismus (2006), Literatur und Kultur im Österreich der 20er Jahre (2007)
• Current research projects: Epochenprofil 1920er Jahre - transkulturell
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• Gertrud Koch, Visiting Professor, Freie Universität Berlin, Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor, Fall 2006.

• Josef Haslinger, University of Leipzig, Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 2006 .
  

• Elke Liebs, University of Potsdam, Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 2003.
  
  (PhD. University of Stuttgart). (liebs@uic.edu)

• Hiltrud Haentzschel, DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 2003.
  
  PhD. University of Heidelberg. Areas of interest: Literature of the Weimar Republic, biography, exile literature, Holocaust und Jewish culture, with emphasis on gender and women's studies. Recent book publication: Brechts Frauen, Reinbeck: Rowohlt Verlag, 2002.

• Barbara von Bechtolsheim, DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 2002, (Ph.D. Stanford University).
  

• Jan Schwarz, Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 2002, (Ph.D. Columbia University).
  

• Katrin Voelkner, Visiting Lecturer, Spring 2002, (Ph.D. Duke University) (kv1@duke.edu).
  

• Monika Schausten, Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002 (Ph.D. University of Cologne) (monika@uic.edu).