Department of Romance, German, and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Margaret Gonglewski , Associate Professor of German
Director of German
Office: PHIL 509C, 994-5727
Fall 2008 Courses: GER 001.10, GER 001.11
Fall 2008 Office Hours: MTW: 12-1 and by appointment

Prof. Gonglewski has been appointed Interim Director of the Columbian College Language Learning Center. Winner of the 1999 Bender award for Teaching with Technology, Professor Gonglewski is uniquely qualified to take on the launching of the new Center. Professor Gonglewski arrived at GW in 1995, with a Ph.D. in German applied linguistics from Georgetown University. Until now, she has coordinated the GW's German-language program. Professor Gonglewski's areas of expertise include second language acquisition strategies, language teaching policy, and teaching with technology. Prof. Gonglewski is also conversant in Russian, having spent a year at the Chicago Tribune bureau in Moscow at the height of the Glasnost era.

Recent Publications:

Mary Beth Stein , Associate Professor of German
Office: PHIL 509F, 994-6896
Fall 2008 Courses: GER 183.10, GER 801.10
Fall 2008 Office Hours:

Prof. Stein joined the Department in 1997. After receiving her Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1993, she taught at Haverford and Carleton Colleges. She has published articles on folklore history, Berlin and the Berlin Wall. Her current research explores the relationship between memory and literature since German reunification. Her primary teaching and research interests are in the areas of German cultural studies, folklore and literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Supported by a prestigious Fulbright Senior Scholar grant, Professor Mary Beth Stein spent the 2000-2001 academic year in Berlin for a research project that deals with the Stasi files in East Germany and their socio-cultural ramifications. Professor Stein received GW's Bender Teaching Award in 2002.

Recent Publications:

Monika Harris, Lecturer in German
Office: PHIL 509A-1, 994-2112
Fall 2008 Courses: GER 001.12, GER 001.13
Fall 2008 Office Hours: MTW: 1:45-2:15

Susanne Hoepfl-Wellenhofer, Adjunct Instructor in German
Office: PHIL 509H, 994-6336
Fall 2008 Courses: GER 009.10, GER 009.11, GER 009.12
Fall 2008 Office Hours: MWF: 10:30-11, M: 12-12:45, W: 1:35-2:30 and by appointment

Susanne Hoepfl-Wellenhofer has been with the department since January 2000. She is originally from Austria and went to the Karls-Franzens-Universität in Graz. She has over 20 years of teaching experience in German and Serbo-Croatian. She has taught first, second and third year German at GW. This year she will teach third year German focusing on media, history and current events. She is fluent in Serbian and Croation, having learned the language formally and having worked for several months in Zagreb and over three years in Belgrade before the break-out of the civil war in the former Yugoslavia.

Susan Norland , Adjunct Assistant Professor of German
Office: PHIL 509H, 994-6336
Fall 2008 Courses: GER 161.10, GER 171.10
Fall 2008 Office Hours: W: 2-3:30 and by appointment

Robert Parker, Lecturer in German
Office: PHIL 509M, 994-3826
Fall 2008 Courses: GER 005.10
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Beatrix Pollack , Adjunct Assistant Professor of German
Office: PHIL 509M, 994-3826
Fall 2008 Courses: GER 005.10, GER 091.10
Fall 2008 Office Hours: MW: 1-2, and by appointment

Richard Rogan, Lecturer in German
Office: PHIL 509A-1, 994-2112
Fall 2008 Courses: GER 001.14
Fall 2008 Office Hours:

Antje Witzel, Lecturer in German
Office: PHIL 509A-1, 994-2112
Fall 2008 Courses: GER 003.10, GER 003.11, GER 003.12
Fall 2008 Office Hours: W: 10:30-11:10, 12-12:40, 1:40-2:15 and by appointment