Graduate Students
Our graduate students share an office—425 Folwell Hall—and can be reached by phone at 651-625-9350 or by their respective email addresses.
Name | Contact | Specialty |
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Olivia Branstetter | brans086@umn.edu | 19th- to 21st-century German plays and playwrights; concepts of psychology in German literature and theatre; Austrian studies |
Kate Brooks | brook392@umn.edu | German and Austrian modernism; German and Yiddish theater; Jewish studies |
Jennifer Schmitt Carnell | schm4066@umn.edu | Medieval Germanic languages and literatures; medieval love lyric; comparative literature |
Rachel Dodson | dodso049@umn.edu | |
Melissa Drew | drew0153@umn.edu | |
Jana Gierden | gierd004@umn.edu | Moving image and media studies; contemporary art; performance art; German pop culture |
Julian Gillilan | gilli419@umn.edu |
Austrian studies; Central European historiography; 19th- and 20th-century German & Austrian Literature |
Emily Groepper | groep005@umn.edu | Medieval Germanic languages and literatures; history of emotions; language pedagogy |
Kathleen Ibe | ibe00001@umn.edu | Ecocriticism; environmental humanities; concepts of nature in German literature; second-language acquisition |
Vincent Kancans | kanca005@umn.edu | Media studies; philosophy of technology; 1970s-80s popular culture; Cold War |
Moritz Meutzner | meutz001@umn.edu | Literary history and philosophy (18th-20th century); German-Turkish intellectual history; German-Jewish studies |
Fiona Shaw | shaw0263@umn.edu |
Romantic German literature and theater; Middle High German Arthurian romances; historical linguistics |
Björn Treber | trebe040@umn.edu | |
Meyer Weinshel | weins096@umn.edu | 19th- to 21st-century Austrian literature and culture; Yiddish literature & culture; translation studies |
Melissa Wicker | wick0313@umn.edu |