German Studies
2011-12 General Catalog
Department of History
201 Humanities
(831) 459-2982
http://germanstudies.ucsc.edu/
Faculty and Professional Interests
Program Faculty
Zsuzsanna Abrams, Associate Professor of Languages
Applied linguistics, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, intercultural communication, discourse analysis, computer-mediate communication
Amy Beal, Associate Professor, Music
American music, 20th-century music, experimental and improvisatory performance practices, postwar and Cold War culture, German new music festivals and radio stations, piano performance, contemporary music ensemble
A. Hunter Bivens, Assistant Professor in Literature
Twentieth- and 21st-century German literature and film, Marxism and critical theory, psychoanalysis, lyric poetry, literary realism, the novel
Walter Campbell, Lecturer in German Language
Language teaching, 18th- and 19th-century German literature, history of German
Mark Cioc, Professor of History
German history, modern European history, environmental history
Jocelyn Hoy, Lecturer , Philosophy
Feminist philosophy, 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy
Donna Hunter, Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
European painting (especially French) from 1600 to the 1960s; German art and visual culture between the two world wars; art as social practice, portraiture
Virginia Jansen, Emerita, History of Art and Visual Culture
Margaret Morse, Professor, Film and Digital Media
Digital and electronic media theory and criticism, media art, media history, technology and culture, film history and theory, German cinema, documentary, science fiction, and silent comedy
Loisa Nygaard, Associate Professor of Literature
Eighteenth- and early 19th-century German literature; romanticism; aesthetics and politics of landscape; military theory
Program Faculty Advisers
Mark Cioc, Professor of History
Loisa Nygaard, Associate Professor of German Literature
Hunter Bivens, Assistant Professor of German Literature
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