Core Faculty

Professor of German and European studies

Phone: (615) 322-2821
Email: m.zeller@vanderbilt.edu

Director of the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies

Specializations:

Eighteenth to twenty-first century German literature, media, and culture

Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies, and Political Science
Professor of Law
Director of the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies

Phone: (615) 322-2652
Email: barsky@vanderbilt.edu

Specializations:

Comparative literature, especially of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Jewish radical thought

Michael D. Bess

Chancellor’s Professor of History
Chancellor’s Chair in History
Professor of European Studies

Phone: (615) 322-3340
Email: d.bess@vanderbilt.edu

Specializations:

Twentieth-century Europe, with a particular interest in the social and cultural impacts of technological change

Emily Greble

Professor of German, Russian, and East European Studies; History, and Jewish Studies
Chair of the Department of History

Email: greble@vanderbilt.edu

Specializations:

East European history
Minorities in Europe
Yugoslavia

Ari Joskowicz

Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, European Studies, History, and German, Russian, and East European Studies
Director of the Jewish Studies Department

Phone: (615) 343-1743
Email: joskowicz@vanderbilt.edu

Specializations:

Jewish history
Modern European history
German & French history
Minorities & nationalism

Letizia Modena

Associate Professor of Italian and European Studies

Email: modena@vanderbilt.edu

Specializations:

Intersections of literature and film with architecture and urban studies

Alexander Schmidt

Visiting Associate Professor of Max Kade Center for European & German Studies

Email: schmidt@vanderbilt.edu

Specializations:

History of human rights
Enlightenment
History of political thought

Meike G. J. Werner

Associate Professor of German and European Studies
Chair of the Department of French and Italian
Interim Chair of German, Russian and East European Studies

Phone: (615) 343-0404
Email: werner@vanderbilt.edu

Specializations:

Nineteenth and twentieth century German literature and culture

Michelle Murray

Associate Professor of Spanish

Phone: (615) 322-7227
Email: michelle.murray@vanderbilt.edu

Director of the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies

Specializations:

Contemporary Spanish culture
Migration, political economy, and trafficking in the Southern Mediterranean