Our Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Richmond Embeywa

Assistant Professor of German

Rebecca Jordan

Visiting Assistant Professor of German

Jill Suzanne Smith

Associate Professor of German, on leave for the 2026–2027 academic year

Birgit Tautz

George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages, Chair of German Department

Staff

Kate Flaherty

Academic Department Coordinator

Jens Elias Klenner

Research Affiliate in German

Faculty Emeriti

Helen L. Cafferty, AB (Bowling Green), AM (Syracuse), PhD (Michigan), William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of German and the Humanities Emerita. (1972)

Steven R. Cerf, AB (Queens College), MPh, PhD (Yale), George Lincoln Skolfield Jr. Professor of German Emeritus. (1971)

James L. Hodge
George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages and Professor of German Emeritus