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Affiliated Faculty

Celia Applegate

Professor of History and German Studies
William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair of History
Specializations: Culture, society, & politics of modern Germany, with particular interest int the history of music; nationalism & national identity
Phone: (615) 343-1983
Email: applegate@vanderbilt.edu

Victoria A. Burrus

Professor of Spanish, Emerita
Specializations: Medieval Spanish literature
Phone: (615) 322-6860
Email: a.burrus@vanderbilt.edu

Lauren R. Clay

Associate Professor of History
Specializations: History of the Old Regime and Revolutionary France and its empire, with particular interests in urban cultural and civic life and the emergence of a commercially oriented society
Phone: (615) 322-5947
Email: clay@vanderbilt.edu

Nathalie A. Debrauwere-Miller

Associate Professor of French
Specializations: Twentieth century French literature & culture; feminist theory
Phone: (615) 322-6906
Email: debrau@vanderbilt.edu

Nathalie Dieu-Porter

Principal Senior Lecturer of French & Italian
Specializations: French language & culture
Phone: (615) 322-6908
Email: d.porter@vanderbilt.edu

Lynn E. Enterline

Professor of English
Nancy Perot Chair
Specializations: Early modern British literature
Phone: (615) 322-3705
Email: enterline@vanderbilt.edu

Leonard Folgarait

Distinguished Professor of History of Art & Architecture
Specializations: The relationship of art to politics; early cubism; surrealism; performance art; film; photography; historiography
Phone: (615) 322-0090
Email: folgarait@vanderbilt.edu

William P. Franke

Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian
Specializations: Italian literature
Phone: (615) 322-6902
Email: p.franke@vanderbilt.edu

Joel F. Harrington

Professor of History
Centennial Chair of History
Specializations: Early modern Europe, especially Germany
Phone: (615) 322-3351
Email: f.harrington@vanderbilt.edu

Lutz Koepnick

Professor of German and Cinema & Media Arts
Director of Comparative Media Analysis and Practice
Max Kade Foundation Chair in German Studies
Specializations: German literature; film; media; visual culture; new media aesthetic & intellectual history from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century
Phone: (615) 322-2611
Email: koepnick@vanderbilt.edu

John C. Kornblum

Distinguished Ambassador-in-Residence for the Max Kade Center for European & German Studies
Writer in Residence of Max Kade Center for European & German Studies

James McFarland

Associate Professor of German
Specializations: Idealist philosophy; Nietzsche; critical theory; film; modernism
Phone: (615) 343-3188
Email: mcfarland@vanderbilt.edu

Andrea Mirabile

Associate Professor of Italian
Specializations: Relationships between verbal and visual arts in Italian culture; cultural interplays between Italy and France; literary theory
Phone: (615) 322-6913
Email: mirabile@vnaderbilt.edu

Lynn T. Ramey

Professor of French
Specializations: Medieval and Renaissance French literature and culture
Phone: (615) 322-6904
Email: ramey@vanderbilt.edu

Philip D. Rasico

Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Specializations: Catalan and Spanish language and history
Phone: (615) 322-6859
Email: d.rasico@vanderbilt.edu

Allison Schachter

Associate Professor of Jewish studies and English
Chair of the Department of Jewish Studies
Specializations: Comparative Jewish literature; Hebrew and Yiddish modernism; French Jewish culture
Phone: (615) 343-3186
Email: schachter@vanderbilt.edu

Thomas Alan Schwartz

Distinguished Professor of History
Specializations: History of international relations
Phone: (615) 343-4328
Email: a.schwartz@vanderbilt.edu

Helmut W. Smith

Professor of History and German Studies
Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History
Specializations: Early Modern & Modern German History
Phone: (615) 322-6220
Email: w.smith@vanderbilt.edu

Holly A. Tucker

Professor of French
Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities
Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
Specializations: Early modern French literature
Phone: (615) 322-6905
Email: tucker@vanderbilt.edu

Andrés Zamora

Professor of Spanish
Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Specializations: Nineteenth and twentieth century Spanish literature
Phone: (615) 322-6858
Email: zamora@vanderbilt.edu