GERMAN PROGRAM
	Faculty

Barbara Fischer, Ph.D.
Professor of German, Graduate Advisor
212 B.B. Comer; (205) 348-8463 | email | web |
Specialties: 18th & 20th century literature, language & culture, German-Jewish studies, enlightenment studies, cultural studies, minority literature.

Thomas C. Fox, Ph.D.
Professor of German, Chair
263 B.B. Comer; (205) 348-7652 | email |
Specialties: 19th & 20th century literature, women writers, East German literature, and Holocaust studies.

Jeffrey P. Guenther, M.A.
Instructor for German, Advisor for German Club, Goethe Institute Language Exams
215 B.B. Comer; (205) 348-5055 | email |
Specialties: FL Pedagogy.

Rasma Lazda, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of German, Advisor Study Abroad, Delta Phi Alpha, German Day, Goethe Institute Language Exams
220 B.B. Comer; (205) 348-6954 | email | web |
Specialties: Medieval German studies, nationalism, disability studies, language and culture acquisition.

Douglas Lightfoot, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of German, Undergraduate Advisor, Language Program Director German / French, Director of Alabama in Austria 2008
224 B.B. Comer; (205) 348-6608 | email | cv |
Specialties: Foreign language teaching methodology, second language acquisition theory, historical linguistics, grammaticalization, cognitive linguistics.

Elaine Martin, Ph.D.
Professor of German, Director of the German Program, the German House; and the Program in Comparative & World Literature
213 B.B. Comer; (205) 348-8520 | email | web |
Specialties: Romanticism: literature, art, and music; Post-1945 literature, art, and film; theory/practice of literary adaptation; women writers.


Emeriti:

Christel Bell, M.A.
emerita | email
former Director of the German summer program Alabama in Austria.

Robert F. Bell, Ph.D.
emeritus | email
Specialties: 17th century poetry, Novelle, exile Novelle (ca. 1933-1945).

Mary Gray Porter, Ph.D.
emerita | email

Affiliated Faculty:

Catherine Davies, Ph.D.
Department of English | email | web |
Specialties: Interactional Sociolinguistic Approaches to Cross-Cultural Communication, Discourse Analysis, and Southern American Discourse.

Louis A. Pitschmann, Ph.D.
Dean of Libraries | email |
Specialties: Germanic Philology.

Thomas T. Sawallis, Ph.D.
Department of English | email |
Specialties: Phonetics, Perception and Acquisition of Speech, Sound Change, and Bilingualism.

George S. Williamson, Ph.D.
Department of History | email | web |
Specialties: Modern German History, Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History.

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