Faculty

Dr. Marcel Rotter, Associate Professor of German (mrotter@umw.edu)

Marcel P. Rotter, Associate Professor of German, earned a Ph.D. (2004) in German literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a M.A. (1985) in German and Russian from Pädagogische Hochschule Erfurt (Germany). A former resident of East Germany (German Democratic Republic) who has traveled throughout Germany and eastern Europe, Dr. Rotter’s thesis studied German poster propaganda of the 20th century. His research interests also include visual communication in product advertisement, newspapers, and other media as well as pedagogical implications of media use.

Dr. Jennifer HansenGlucklich, Visiting Assistant Professor of German (jhanseng@umw.edu)

Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich earned a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Virginia (2011). Her areas of research interest include German memory culture, Holocaust studies, German film, and 20^th century German literature. She has published articles on Nazi propaganda film and on Holocaust memory in Germany and Israel in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies; the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies; and Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies, and has received fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C. Her first book on visual Holocaust memorialization is forthcoming with Rutgers University Press.

Michael Friedrich, Language Coordinator (mfriedr2@umw.edu)