German Studies
Teaching and research staff within the German Studies department.
Dr Wiebke Brockhaus-Grand
Senior Lecturer in German Linguistics
Specialisms: Phonetics; Phonology; German Dialectology; German language skills.
Ms Dorit Fellner
Senior Language Tutor
Dr Melanie Födisch
Language Tutor
Prof Cathy Gelbin
Professor of Film and German Studies
Specialisms: Modern German culture: film and literature; European and independent cinema; German-Jewish Culture; Holocaust representations.
Prof Matthew Jefferies
Professor of German History
Specialisms: German history (19th and 20th century); historiography; architectural and urban history; German liberalism; photography and photobooks.
Prof Margaret Littler
Professor of Contemporary German Culture
Specialisms: Turkish German literature; Minor Literature; Gilles Deleuze; Germans in 19th-century Manchester; science and the arts.
Dr Elinor Parks
Language Tutor in German