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Emeriti Faculty
Reinhold Heller, Professor, joint appointment with Art History (MA, PhD
Indiana University), has been at Chicago since 1978. His research
interests include German Expressionism, the Weimar avant-garde, and the
history of modern German art. His most recent book is Stark Impressions: Prints in Germany (Northwestern UP, 1994).
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-mail: rheller@uchicago.edu
Samuel Jaffe, Professor (BA, MA,
PhD University of Chicago), has been involved with the Department
longer than any other current faculty member. His teaching and research
interests range from the Middle Ages to Moses Mendelssohn, Freud, and
Nietzsche. He participates both in the Committee in Medieval Studies
and Committee on Jewish Studies.
Peter K. Jansen (1934 - 2007), published articles on Heinrich von Kleist, Georg Büchner,
Johann Nepomuk Nestroy and Viennese popular theatre, Bertolt Brecht,
and reviewed books on many authors and subjects in German literature
from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Along with Kenneth
Northcott, he translated three plays by the late Austrian playwright
Thomas Bernhard which were published under the the collective title of
Histrionics.
Hildegund Ratcliffe, Senior Lecturer (PhD Innsbruck), was coordinator of the language program. In addition to organizing language instruction at the first-, second-, and third-year levels, she offered a course in pedagogical theory and methods and also taught language courses. She was also responsible for the academic aspects of the Spring Quarter program in Weimar (for undergraduates) and conducted German language proficiency tests for students at the University of Chicago.