German Faculty

Full-time Faculty

Olga E. Rojer, Associate Professor
PhD, University of Maryland
orojer@american.edu
Professor Olga Rojer obtained a PhD in German Studies from the University of Maryland in 1985.  Her early research focuses on the marginalized literature of the German speaking exile in Latin America.  She is the author of Exile in Argentina: 1933-1945 (Peter Lang, 1989).  Her recent research has emphasized the subaltern literature of the Caribbean creole Papiamentu and postcolonial literature in Dutch.  Professor Rojer received a Pushcart Prize nomination for her work on the fiction of Dutch Caribbean author Boeli van Leeuwen.   (Read more)

Renée von Wörde, Assistant Professor
PhD, George Mason University
rvworde@american.edu
Professor von Wörde was born in Berlin, Germany. She earned the PhD in Education from George Mason University after completing a Doctoral Internship at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Her early research focused on foreign language anxiety. She has done postdoctoral work at the University of Rostock, Germany; Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; and at Klagenfurt University, Austria. (Read more)

Adjunct Faculty

Mihaela Bancila-Pittman
PhD, University of Virginia
bancilap@american.edu

Barbara Bernhardt-Gajer
A, SUNY at Stony Brook
MA, University of Wroclaw, Poland
bernhard@american.edu

Tania Burton
PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook
burton@american.edu

Ursula Dannebom
MA, Konstanz University, Konstanz, Germany
dannebom@american.edu

Andrea Santoro
MA, University of Hamburg, Germany
santoro@american.edu