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Jutta Birmele Prof. Birmele has lectured and taught at universities in Tubingen, Heidelberg, Oldenburg and Qingdao, and has published on issues and topics of Post-Wall Germany, legal German history, German colonial history, and European unification. In 1992, Professor Birmele received the Bundesverdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany) She serves as President for Friends of Goethe, the fund-raising non-profit organization for Goethe Institute Los Angeles. |
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Jeffrey High Assistant Professor of German Ph.D.,University of Massachusetts in Amherst in German Literature. e-mail: jhigh@csulb.edu Before teaching at CSULB, he held lectureships at the University of Massachusetts, the Universität Heidelberg, 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–“The 'German Novella from Boccaccio to Stephen King,” “Drama of the Late Enlightement,” “A History of Heresy and Witch Persecutions”–teach interdisciplinary approaches to the intersections of literature, philosophy, critical theory, and politics in German, European, and American culture. |
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Melissa
Etzler Teaching Associate of German BA, California State University, Long Beach, in English and German e-mail: metzler@csulb.edu |