Faculty Specialization : German and Scandinavian Studies : UMass Amherst

Executive Director of the DEFA Film Library, Adjunct Faculty

Skyler Arndt-Briggs was Adjunct Faculty in the Department of German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Executive Director of the DEFA Film Library

James E. Cathey

Professor Emeritus, German & Scandinavian Studies

James E. Cathey is Professor Emeritus, German & Scandinavian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Julia Feldhaus

Lecturer in STEM German and Director of iSTEP

Julia Feldhaus teaches STEM German and directs the international Science Technology & Engineering Programs (iSTEP) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The main focus of her research is images of the New Woman during the Weimar Republic.

Ela Gezen

Associate Professor

An Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Ela Gezen’s research and teaching focus on 20th and 21st century German literature and culture, with emphases on literatures of migration, minority discourses, historical and theoretical accounts of transnationalism, and literary and cultural theory.

Mariana Ivanova

Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director & Academic Director of the DEFA Film Library

As an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mariana Ivanova's scholarship focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century German and European cinemas and cultures, theories of transnational filmmaking and coproduction, artistic networks, and cultural mediation. At the DEFA Film Library, she co-directs Summer Film Institutes and works within a vibrant team to support research and teaching of East German cinema in the US and around the globe.

Sara E. Jackson

Associate Professor, Program Director

Jackson is Associate Professor and director of the German and Scandinavian Studies program in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research and teaching areas include women's, gender and sexuality studies; theater and performance studies; the history and philosophy of sciences; and classical reception.

Kerstin Mueller Dembling

Senior Lecturer, Language Program Coordinator

Kerstin Mueller Dembling is Senior Lecturer and Language Program Coordinator of the German and Scandinavian Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As the language program coordinator in GSS, professor Mueller Dembling is in charge of the elementary and intermediate German language sequence, and she instructs the graduate TAs in second language teaching methods.

Jonathan Skolnik

Associate Professor

Jonathan Skolnik is Associate Professor of German at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with adjunct appointments in History and in Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. He is also core faculty in Film Studies and associate faculty in Comparative Literature. Professor Skolnik’s research and teaching focuses on German-Jewish Studies, intellectual history, and film studies.

Robert Sullivan

Associate Professor,

Undergraduate Program Director

Robert Sullivan is an Associate Professor and the Undergraduate Program Director in the German and Scandinavian Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

German and Scandinavian Studies

German and Scandinavian Studies is a nationally-ranked program with distinguished scholars who are also dedicated teachers and mentors, having won teaching awards and prestigious fellowships. We are a small but dynamic program, which allows us to make certain that we get to know our students very well and guide them through their experience here at UMass.

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