Officers & Staff
Below you can learn more about our staff & officers.
Office
Andrew Elfenbein
Specialties
British literature, history, and culture, 1700-1900; influence study; queer theory; history of English; cognition and reading; the study of authorship; empirical psychology and literary study
Helena Ruf
She/her
Senior Lecturer
Director of Language Instruction, College in the Schools Liason
Specialties
Second Language Acquisition; Second language writing; Social Justice in Language Education; Study Abroad; Modern German Dialectology; German immigration
Academic Leaders
Jenneke Oosterhoff
she, her
Specialties
Dutch language and literature; German language and literature
Instructional Leadership
Emily Groepper
she/her
Lecturer
Coordinator: German 1001 & 1002
Specialties
Collaborative Dialogues; Second Language Acquisition; Medieval Germanic Languages and Literatures; History of Emotions
Elizabeth Kautz
she/her/hers
Senior Lecturer
Coordinator: German 1003 & 1004
Specialties
Foreign language pedagogy and curriculum development; Academic technology; Virtual exchange; Content-based language instruction; Intercultural competency; TA supervision
