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Robert S. Kirsner

Robert S. Kirsner was Professor Emeritus of Dutch and Afrikaans in the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. in general linguistics from Columbia University in 1972….

Saul Friedländer

Saul Friedländer is is an award-winning Israeli/American historian and Professor Emeritus in the UCLA Departments of Germanic Languages and History. For more information, visit his profile on the Department of…

James A. Schultz

James A. Schultz did not mean to be a Germanist. He meant to be an architect, an organ builder, or perhaps an organist. Once in college, however, Schultz misplaced architecture…

Timothy R. Tangherlini

Timothy R. Tangherlini taught folklore, literature, and cultural studies at the University of California, where he was a professor in the Scandinavian Section and the Department of Asian Languages and…

Roberta Morosini

Prior to joining UCLA’s Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies in July 2024, Professor Morosini was Professor of Italian at the Università L’Orientale di Napoli since 2022 and the…

John McCumber

John McCumber was a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the UCLA Department of Germanic Languages. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Greek from the University of Toronto. Prior to…