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, globalizing approaches to German intellectual history, and in modernist culture. His additional interests include digital humanities and opera studies.
Office: 302 Decio Hall | Phone: (574) 631-7188 | Email | cv
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Spring 2012 Office Hours: T 10:30-12:00, W 11:30-12:30 & by appt.
Denise Della Rossa
Associate Teaching Professor 
Ph.D. 2002, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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
Spring 2012 Office Hours: MWF 1:45-2:45, T 11:45-1:00 & by appt.
Carsten Dutt
Assistant Professor of German
Ph.D. 2004, University of Heidelberg
Professor Dutt’s specializations include literary hermeneutics, the theory and methodology of conceptual history, and modern German literature.
Gesa Frömming
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
Ph.D., German Literature, Vanderbilt, 2011
Professor Fromming's
special interests have since moved from 20th German literature and the arts of the European Avantgardes to eighteenth-century studies. Her dissertation entitled “Pastorale. Melancholic Sovereignty and Its Musical Redemption in Eighteenth-Century Thought” analyzes poetic transformations of the ancient trope of music’s anti-melancholic capacities in literary, essayistic and operatic works of Christoph Martin Wieland.
Office: 303 Decio Hall | Phone: (574) 631-2779 | Email
Spring 2012 Office Hours: MF 9:00-10:00, T 11:00-12:00 & by appt.
Vittorio Hösle
Paul G. Kimball Chair of Arts and Letters, Professor of German, Concurrent Professor of Philosophy, Concurrent Professor of Political Science, Director of Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study
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
Spring 2012 Office Hours: By appointment only.
Claire Jones
Assistant Professor of German
PhD. 2012, University of Pennsylvania
CJ's areas of research include medieval and early modern Christian spirituality and mysticism, music and corporate worship, German and French phenomenology, and "literary theory."
Robert E. Norton
Chair of the Department of German and Russian
Professor of German; Concurrent Professor of Philosophy
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
Spring 2012 Office Hours: R 1:00-2:00 & 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
Spring 2012 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) 302-1813 | Email | Home Page | cv
Spring 2012 Office Hours: MW 4:00-5:00, R 2:00-3:00 & by appt.
Thomas Stefaniuk
Pre-Doctoral Fellow This academic year, Thomas Stefaniuk is the Pre-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of German and Russian. He is a doctoral candidate in the German Department at the Ohio State University, working on a dissertation titled "New World Flock: Joseph Jessing and the Construction of German Catholic Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century America", under the direction of Professor Barbara Becker-Cantarino.
Office: 301 Decio Hall | Phone: (574) 631-9902
Spring 2012 Office Hours: MTW 1:30-3:00 & by appt.
Hannelore Weber
Associate Teaching Professor
M.A. in German 1994, University of Notre Dame
Professor Weber specializes in second language acquisition and pedagogy. Her additional interests include German music, with a focus on German Lieder.
Office: 305 Decio Hall | Phone: (574) 631-7751 | Email
Spring 2012 Office Hours: ON LEAVE
Albert K. Wimmer
Associate Professor of German, Fellow of the Medieval Institute, Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European 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
Spring 2012 Office Hours: MW 12:00-1:00 & by appt.
Staff
Dyann Mawhorr
Departmental Administrative Assistant
Office: 318 O'Shaughnessy Hall | Phone: (574) 631-5572 | Email
