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 adresses.
| Name | Contact | Specialty |
|---|---|---|
| Zizanie Bodene-Yost | bode0092@umn.edu | German and Danish literature and culture; women writers; Nordic studies |
| 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 |
| Jana Gierden | gierd004@umn.edu | Moving image and media studies; contemporary art; performance art; German pop culture |
| 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 |
| Anthony Bezeroukoff Kahane | kahan012@umn.edu | |
| 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 | |
| Meyer Weinshel | weins096@umn.edu | 19th to 21st-century Austrian literature and culture; Yiddish literature & culture; translation studies |
| Melissa Wicker | wick0313@umn.edu | |
| Amanda Wolfson | wolfs058@umn.edu |