German Faculty

Department Chair

Kamaal Haque
Assistant Professor of German (2008).
Bosler Hall Room 6M
haquek@dickinson.edu
(717) 245-1283

Department Faculty

Sarah McGaughey
(on leave 2011-12)
Assistant Professor of German (2007).

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
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
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.

Edward Muston
Visiting Assistant Professor of German (2011).
Bosler Hall Room 114
mustone@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
B.A., University of Toronto, 2002; M.A., Princeton University, 2006; Ph.D., 2011.

His research explores Austrian and German post-1945 literature and critical theory. His previous work focuses on the tradition of autobiography and the way postmodern authors adapt and transform the genre. He has published articles on Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the novel and on the intertextual relationship between the Austrian author Thomas Bernhard and the American novelist William Gaddis. He is currently expanding his work on autobiography to encompass the difficulties inherent in representing multiethnic and multilingual identities. At Dickinson, he is teaching a range of courses on German language and culture.

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
Adjunct Faculty in German

durdene@dickinson.edu