German Program
German Faculty
The German faculty at Notre Dame is committed to dynamic teaching and outstanding scholarship. This strength is evidenced by its distinguished publication record and its high ratings on student evaluations of teaching, which are consistently well above College and University norms.
One semester each year, the faculty is joined by a Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor from one of the German-speaking countries.
Tobias Boes
Assistant Professor of German
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature 2006, Yale University
Professor Boes specializes in the theory and history of the novel, German intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in modernist culture, especially that of the Weimar Republic. His additional interests include humanities computing and the integration of digital media into the literature and language classroom.
Office: 302 Decio Hall | Phone: (574) 631-7188 | Email | cv
Fall 09 Office hours: M 12:00-1:00 & W 3:00-4:30
Jennifer Cameron 
Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Jennifer is currently completing her dissertation on contemporary autobiographical narratives reflecting on Germany's National Socialist and Communist past. Her specializations include contemporary German literature, gender and memory studies, Jewish-German and Yiddish literature.
Office: 309 Decio Hall Phone: (574) 631-4710
Fall 09 Office hours: W & R 3:30-4:30
Denise Della Rossa
Associate Professional Specialist
Ph.D. 2002, University of Wisconsin-Madison
She specializes in 19th-Century German women's writing, in which she pursues the process by which women developed a literary consciousness.
Office: 334 Decio Hall | Phone: (574) 631-2216 | Email | cv
Fall 09 Office hours: MW 2:00-3:15 & F 1:00-2:00
Jan-Lüder Hagens
Associate Professional Specialist
Ph.D. 1993, Princeton University
Professor Hagens specializations include theory of drama, history of German drama, German film, philosophical approaches to literature (ethics, aesthetics, literary theory), and German intellectual history.
Office: 308 Decio Hall | Phone: (574) 631-7662 | Email | Home Page | cv
Fall 09 Office hours: T 2-3, R 9:45-10:45 & By appt.
Vittorio Hösle
Paul G. Kimball Chair of Arts and Letters, Professor of German, Concurrent Professor of Philosophy, Concurrent Professor of Government and International Studies
Ph.D. 1982, and Dr. habil. 1985, Tubingen
Professor Hosle's specializations include philosophy (ethics, metaphysics, political philosophy, aesthetics) and intellectual history.
Office: 638 Flanner Hall | Phone: (574) 631-5121 | Email | cv
On Leave Fall 09
Anita McChesney
Assistant Professor of German
Ph.D. 2005, Johns Hopkins University
Her specializations include 19th- through 21st-Century German and Austrian literature and culture, literary and genre theory, the German detective novel, and the relationship between visual media and narration.
Office: 317 Decio Hall | Phone: (574) 631-8042 | Email | cv
Fall 09 Office hours MW 2:00-3:30 & By appt.
Robert E. Norton
Chair of the Department of German and Russian
Professor of German
Ph.D. 1988, Princeton University
His specializations include 18th- through 20th-Century German literature and philosophy, aesthetics and ethics, and German intellectual history.
Office: 318 O'Shaughnessy| Phone: (574) 631-5572 | Email | cv
Office hours by appt.
Vera B. Profit 
Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Ph.D. 1974, the University of Rochester
Her specializations include post-1945 literature of the German-speaking countries, 20th-Century German lyric poetry, French poetry between the world wars, and the interrelationship of psychology and literature.
Office: 371 Decio Hall | Phone: (574) 631-5082 | Email
Fall 09 Office hours W 3:00-5:00 & by appt.
Mark W. Roche
Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Professor of German; Concurrent Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. 1984, Princeton University
His specializations include modern German literature, literature and philosophy, German intellectual history.
Office: 349 Decio Hall | Phone: (574) 631-3756 | Email | Home Page | cv
On leave Fall 09
Hannelore Weber
Associate Professional Specialist
Professor Weber is the campus coordinator for the study abroad program in Innsbruck, Austria. She teaches German 10112 and 20212; both intensive German language courses.
Office: 305 Decio Hall | Phone: (574) 631-7751 | Email
Fall 09 Office hours M 11:45-1:00, T 1:30-2:30 & By appt.
Albert K. Wimmer
Associate Professor of German, Fellow of the Medieval Institute, Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. 1975, Indiana University
His specializations include medieval German literature, language pedagogy, history of the German language, business German, contemporary German issues, and translation.
Office: 156 Decio Hall | Phone: (574) 631-6148 | Email | Home Page
Fall 09 Office hours MWF 12:00-1:00 & By appt.
Staff
Michelle Thornton
Departmental Administrative Assistant
Office: 318 O'Shaughnessy Hall | Phone: (574) 631-5572 | Email
