German Studies
Teaching and research staff within the German Studies department.
Ms Dominique Brockhaus-Grand
Language Tutor in German
Dr Wiebke Brockhaus-Grand
Senior Lecturer in German Linguistics
Specialisms: Phonetics; Phonology; German Dialectology; German language skills.
Ms Dorit Fellner-Whitgreave
Senior 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.
Ms Anne-Teresa Markovic
Language Tutor in German
Dr Sam Osborn
Language Tutor in German
Specialisms: gender and sexuality in the 20th century; post-war literature and film (especially the GDR); queer studies.
Dr Sebastian Truskolaski
Lecturer in German Studies
Specialisms: Points of contact between modern and contemporary art, literature, and philosophy; Modern European thought from Kant to Derrida; aesthetic theory from Romanticism to the Frankfurt School; theories (and practices) of translation from Luther to Benjamin.
Ms Sabrina Wagner
Language Tutor in German
Specialisms: Linguistic varieties (especially Swiss German); online teaching and learning; translation.
Ms Birgit Winnington
Language Tutor in German
Honorary and Emeritus staff
Prof Margaret Littler
Emerita Professor of Contemporary German Culture