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German Faculty


  • Department Chair

  • Sarah McGaughey
    Assistant Professor of German (2007).
    Bosler Hall Room 114
    mcgaughs@dickinson.edu
    (717) 245-1279

  • Department Faculty

  • Sarah McGaughey

    Sarah McGaughey
    Assistant Professor of German (2007).
    Bosler Hall Room 114
    (717) 245-1279 | mcgaughs@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
    B.A., Smith College, 1997; M.A., Washington University-St. Louis, 1999; Ph.D., 2005.

    Her scholarship concentrates on architecture and literature in Central Europe of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She has published on the Viennese author Hermann Broch as well as on topics such as fashion and interior design. Her current courses are on topics such as contemporary literature and popular culture, the history of the Faust legend, German literature, and the German language.

  • Kamaal Haque

    Kamaal Haque
    Assistant Professor of German (2008).
    Bosler Hall Room 6M
    (717) 245-1283 | haquek@dickinson.edu
    B.A., Drew University, 1997; M.A., Washington University in St. Louis, 2000; Ph.D., 2006.

    His research interests include German film, Middle Eastern influences on German literature and the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). He has published on the role of space in Goethe's poetry. Forthcoming publications are on the German mountain film, the philosopher Hamann's relationship to Goethe and Muslim minorities in Germany today. In addition to courses at all levels of German language and culture, he has taught recent courses such as The Mountain in the German Cultural Imagination, Minority Cultures in the German Context and Modern German Film.

  • Antje Pfannkuchen

    Antje Pfannkuchen
    Assistant Professor of German (2009).
    Bosler Hall Room 11M
    (717) 254-8151 | pfannkua@dickinson.edu
    M.A., FU Berlin, 2000; M.P.S., New York University, 2002; Ph.D., 2010.

    The mutual influences between media-technology, science, literature and art are at the focus of her work. She has published on German Enlightenment poet and scientist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg as well as on Ezra Pound's interests in 19th century German science. Her current research concerns the conditions of the invention of photography around 1800. Courses she has been and will be teaching include the culture of the two Germanies, German Romanticism, German-Jewish relations and all levels of German language.

  • William G. Durden

    William G. Durden
    President of the College, Lemuel T. Appold Foundation Chair, Professor of German and of Education (1999).
    West College (Old West) 1st Floor
    (717) 245-1322 | durden@dickinson.edu
    B.A., Dickinson College, 1971; M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1974; Ph.D., 1977.

  • Adjunct Faculty

  • Elke Durden

    Elke Durden
    Adjunct Faculty in German

    durdene@dickinson.edu