CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT: Associate Professor Goebel

DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES: Assistant Professor Siegel

COORDINATOR OF THE LANGUAGE PROGRAM: Dr. Dortmann

The department’s undergraduate program offers a broad range of courses in the language, cultures, and literatures of German-speaking countries. The department offers a major in German literature and culture, a joint major in German and linguistics, and a minor in German language.

Along with its German language program, the department offers interdisciplinary courses taught in English that address issues of German culture, history, philosophy, art, and literature for students who do not have German language skills.

The department sponsors the activities of the German Club, as well as a series of annual awards in recognition of outstanding achievement by undergraduate students in the study of German language and literature. Deutsches Haus, the German cultural center at NYU, provides a varied program of films, concerts, lectures, and exhibitions.

The Department of German places high priority on fostering personal contact between faculty and students, maintains relatively small class sizes (15 or fewer students, on average), and offers comfortable spaces for socializing, studying, and holding informal meetings. Advanced courses and some basic language courses are taught by full-time faculty members, all of whom are also involved in student advising.

Faculty

Professors Emeriti:
Becker, Guilloton, Herzfeld-Sander, Hüppauf, Sander

Professors:
Baer, Goebel, Ronell

Associate Professors:
Fleming, Ulfers

Assistant Professor:
Siegel

Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow:
North

Language Lecturer:
Dortmann

Adjunct Associate Professor:
Cohen

Global Distinguished Professor:
Bronfen