Associate Professor of German
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1998
20th century German Literature and Culture; Contemporary Austrian Studies; Feminism; Service Learning/Community Engagement.
MA Washington University, St. Louis in German Literature Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst in German Literature.
Before teaching at CSULB, Nele Hempel-Lamer was an Associate Professor of German and the director of Women’s Studies at the University of Memphis. Her research and teaching interests lie in twentieth-century German and Austrian literature and culture, interdisciplinary feminism and discourses of memory and commemoration.
Favorite seminars include survey courses in twentieth-century drama, post-1945 courses with a special emphasis on works by Gruppe 47 authors, and the special topics course "The Mother Figure in twentieth-century German Literature and Culture." Professor Hempel-Lamer was recognized for her teaching with distinguished teaching awards both at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at the University of Memphis.
Associate Professor of German
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001
18th century German Literature, Revolution, Aesthetic Theory, and Moral Philosophy.
Before teaching at CSULB, Jeff High held lectureships at the University of Massachusetts, the Universität Heidelberg and the University of Minnesota, and continues to teach as Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico's German Summer School. His teaching focuses on the "Age of Schiller" as well as literary, philosophical and theoretical texts from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Professor High's seminars – "Friedrich Schiller," “The 'German' Novella from Boccaccio to Stephen King,” “Drama of the Late Enlightement,” and "Witch Persecutions in German-speaking Europe" - teach interdisciplinary approaches to the intersections of literature, philosophy, critical theory and politics in German, European and American culture. Professor High has received numerous awards for teaching, service and scholarship at the Universities of Massachusetts and Minnesota, and at CSULB.
Viktoria Gabriel
Teaching Associate of German
Email: vicky.gabriel@gmail.com
Roma Hernández
Teaching Associate of German
Email: romadavila@gmail.com
Krista Lange
Teaching Assoicate of German
Email: krista.lange@gmail.com
Kirsten Reinking
Teaching Associate of German
Email: kreinkin@csulb.edu
Henrik Sponsel
Teaching Associate of German
Email: henrik.sponsel@gmail.com
Matthew Straus
Teaching Associate of German
Email: mstraus@csulb.edu
Katharina Zill
Teaching Associate of German
Email: katzgerina@hotmail.com
