European Languages and Studies

Anke Biendarra
abiendar@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of European Languages and Studies; German core faculty; Director of European Studies
Interests: German and European literature and culture of the 20th/21st century, esp. pop literature , GDR/reunification. Critical European Culture Studies, migration studies, transnationalism, memory studies, gender studies.

Kai Evers
kevers@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of European Languages and Studies, German Core Faculty Director of German Graduate Program
Interests: Modernist literature, German film, European studies, Catastrophic Imagination and Representations of War, Violence, and Risk

Glenn Levine
glevine@uci.edu
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Professor of European Languages and Studies; German Core Faculty, Director of German Language Program, Affiliated Professor of Language Science
Interests: Applied linguistics, theoretical linguistics, foreign language pedagogy, German-Jewish literature, Yiddish language and literature

Christophe Litwin
christophe.litwin@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of European Languages and Studies; French Core Faculty; German Joint Faculty; M.A. in European Thought and Culture Core Faculty

Catherine Malabou
cmalabou@uci.edu
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Professor of Comparative Literature and European Languages and Studies; French Core Faculty; German Joint Faculty; M.A. in European Thought and Culture Core Faculty
Interests: German Idealism, Contemporary French Philosophy, Critical Theory, Neurobiology, Epigenetics

Carrie J. Noland
cjnoland@uci.edu
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Professor of European Languages and Studies and French, Comparative Literature Affiliate Faculty
Interests: Twentieth-century French and Francophone literature, avant-garde, poetry & poetics, critical theory, dance and performance studies, phenomenology

David Pan
dtpan@uci.edu
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Professor of German, Acting Chair of European Languages and Studies
Interests: Eighteenth-, Nineteenth-, and Twentieth-century German Literature and Intellectual history, Johann Georg Hamann, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bertolt Brecht, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Carl Schmitt

Deanna Shemek
dshemek@uci.edu
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Professor, European Languages and Studies
Interests: Italian literature, Italian and European history, women and gender studies, Renaissance and early modern studies, digital humanities, history of communications media

John H. Smith
jhsmith@uci.edu
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Professor of European Languages and Studies; German Core Faculty; Chair of European Languages and Studies; M.A. in European Thought and Culture Core Faculty
Interests: Eighteenth- to twentieth-century literature, philosophy, and intellectual history; literary theory

Georges Van Den Abbeele
gvandena@uci.edu
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Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and European Languages and Studies; French Core Faculty
Interests: French and European philosophical literature, travel narrative and tourism/migration studies; critical theory and aesthetics