Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto

Professor of German and Philosophy Contact info w.goetschel@utoronto.ca Office University of Toronto Odette Hall 313 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 3L5 Phone 416-926-2320 Secretary: 416-926-2324 Office Hours Wednesday 4-5pm or by appointment Classes 2023-2024 JGC1855H S Critical Theory| GER320H F Age of Goethe: Revolution and Romanticism Background Ph.D. 1989 in German, Harvard University Lic.phil I[=M.Phil] 1982 in Philosophy, Universität Zürich President, Foundation Stiftung Dialogik President, North American Heine Society General Editor, Bamidbar: Journal for Jewish Thought and Philosophy Editor, The Germanic Review Editorial Board, Weimarer Beiträge Editorial Board, Lessing Year Book 2020 Recipient of the Moses Mendelssohn Prize of the City of Dessau 2012 Fellow in Residence at the Lichtenberg Kolleg, University of Göttingen 2009 Charlotte M. Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor in German Studies, Rutgers University Teaching Interests 18th to 20th century German Literature and Thought, Enlightenment, German Jewish Culture, Critical Theory. Current Research Interests I am currently working on a project that examines the emergence of how modern philosophy theorizes difference, otherness, and alterity. The project called "Difference and Alterity in Modern Jewish Philosophy" is supported by a grant of the Social Sciences and Human Research Council. Insight Grant 2012-2020 My previous research project "The Question of ... Read More »

Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies Associate Professor of German, Teaching Stream Contact info hangsun.kim@utoronto.ca Office University of Toronto Odette Hall 305 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 3L5 Phone 416-926-2301 Secretary: 416-926-2324 Office Hours Fridays 1-3pm Classes 2023-24 GER100, GER195, GER150 Background Ph.D. Harvard University 2012 Hang-Sun Kim earned her PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in 2012 and has been teaching German language, literature, and culture courses for the University of Toronto’s German Department since 2015. Her areas of specialization are German Foreign Language Pedagogy, Modernist German and Austrian Literature, and Literary Urban Studies. She is the organizer of the annual DAAD-sponsored German Language Teaching and Learning Workshop, which supports the professional development of graduate student and early-career German language instructors at Canadian post-secondary institutions from central to maritime Canada. Her most recent project is the International Student Experience seed-grant-funded Multilingual German Lab which is designed to provide targeted support for multilingual students of German. She is currently the co-lead of the Global Languages Initiative, which encompasses stakeholders from nine departments and five centres and programs at the Faculty of Arts & Science. Prof. Kim holds the Association of College and University Educators’ Certificate for Effective ... Read More »

Associate Professor of German Contact info christine.lehleiter@utoronto.ca Office University of Toronto Odette Hall 318 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 3L5 Phone 416-926-2322 Secretary: 416-926-2324 Office Hours tba Classes 2021 – 2022 GER1540HS Revolutions GER270HS Money & Economy Background Ph.D. Indiana University 2007 Selected Publications Books: Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2014. 323 pages. Finalist, Novalis-Preis 2016 Reviews: Jocelyn Holland in Monatshefte 108.2 (2016): 304-305 Leif Weatherby in German Studies Review 40.1 (2017): 190-192 Stefani Engelstein in Goethe Yearbook 24 (2017): 313-315 Gabriel Trop in Eighteenth-Century Studies 51.3 (2018): 385-386 Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain (ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. 368 pages. The volume is available on Knowledge Unlatched Reviews: Steven Howe in European Romantic Review 28.4 (2017): 495-500 Christopher R. Clason in Goethe Yearbook 25 (2018): 305-306 Yevgenya Strakowsky in Monatshefte 110.1 (Spring 2018): 122-124 Joseph O’Neil in University of Toronto Quarterly 87.3 (Summer 2018): 339-341 Special Journal Issues: Reading Minds: German Studies and the Neurohumanities. Special issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 58.1 (February 2022). Articles and Book Chapters: “Reading Minds.“ Introduction to Reading Minds: German Studies and the Neurohumanities. ... Read More »

Sessional Lecturer Contact info v.melnyk@utoronto.ca Office Hours Friday 1- 3 or by appointment, OH307 Classes 2023-2024 GER 6000HF/S Reading German for Graduate Students Read More »

Acting Associate Chair, Graduate Studies Professor of German Extraordinary Professor, Modern Foreign Languages, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Vice-President, International Herder Society Contact info john.noyes@utoronto.ca For graduate matters: german.grad@utoronto.ca Office University of Toronto Odette Hall 304 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 3L5 Phone 416-926-2344 Office Hours tba Classes 2022 – 2023 GER305HF German Literature II GER410HF Intellectual History: Enlightenment and After GER1480HS Goethe’s Faust Background Ph.D. Cape Town 1989 Recent Fellowships and Awards Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Connection Grant for Planetary Humanities workshop Vice Provost’s International Fund grant for Planetary Humanities workshop Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Project: Global Humanities (2020 and 2021) Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada Insight Grant for the project “Goethe’s World” (2018) John K. Noyes, Herder: Aesthetics Against Imperialism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2015. Winner of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, best book 2014-2015. Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Project: Global Citizenship and the Practice of Being Human. South African Visions and the legacy of Enlightenment (2016 and 2017) National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for project The Legacy of Herder’s Theory ... Read More »

Guest lecture, November 13: Martin Revermann: "The Brechtian Model Book: Design, Ideology, Impact" Read More »

Thursday, October 16th, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., UC57 Read More »

October 2, 2014, 16:00. Niklaus Largier (University of California, Berkeley). Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 59 Queen’s Park Cres. East. Read More »

Thursday, October 2, 1 p.m.: Kaffeestunde at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Read More »

Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Thursday, December 4, at 1 p.m. Read More »