People

Karl S. Guthke

guthke@fas.harvard.edu

Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, Emeritus

Professor Guthke is a member of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a former Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, the Humanities Research Center, Canberra, and the Wolfenbüttel...

John T. Hamilton

jhamilt@fas.harvard.edu

William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature

Director of Graduate Studies

John Hamilton studied Comparative Literature, German, and Classics in New York, Paris, and Heidelberg. He has held previous teaching positions in Comparative Literature and German at New York University, with visiting professorships in Classics at the...

Susan G. Hunt

shunt@fas.harvard.edu

Administrative Coordinator

Events; finance; general administration

Sean Kelly

sdkelly@fas.harvard.edu

Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy

Sean Kelly earned an Sc.B. with Honors in Mathematics and Computer Science and an M.S. in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences from Brown University in 1989. After several years as a graduate student in Logic and Methodology of Science, he finally received...

Joseph Koerner

koerner@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Victor S. Thomas Professor of History of Art & Architecture, Department of History of Art & Architecture

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised there and in Vienna, Austria, Joseph Leo Koerner studied English and German literature at Yale University (BA 1980), Cambridge University (MA 1982), and University of Heidelberg (1982-3). He received his Ph.D...

Catherine Le

catherinele@fas.harvard.edu

Stephen Arthur Mitchell

samitch@fas.harvard.edu

Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore, Emeritus

Curator, The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature

As an undergraduate, I attended the University of California, Berkeley (A.B. in Anthropology and Scandinavian Languages and Literatures), the University of Lund, Sweden, and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D., in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures)...

Lisa Parkes

lparkes@fas.harvard.edu

Senior Lecturer

Director of the German Language Program

Standing Committee Member on Theater, Dance, and Media

Dr. Parkes completed her undergraduate degree in German and Music at the University of London and came to the U.S. for her graduate studies, completing her Ph.D. in German at UCLA. Before coming to Harvard in 2009, she was the director of the German...

Sarah Passinhas-Bergman

spassinhasbergman@fas.harvard.edu

Student Coordinator; milestones tracking; TF/TA hiring, undergraduate program tracking

Before coming to Harvard, Sarah Passinhas-Bergman worked in library circulation and reference, mainly in course reserve management. She has her B.A. in English from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Rachael Petersen

Rachael Petersen studies the interplay of philosophy, science, and literature in the long nineteenth century, with a particular focus on how German thinkers engaged questions of mind, matter, and animacy across human and nonhuman life. Her work traces how...

Ekaterina Pirozhenko

ekaterinapirozhenko@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Germanic Languages and Literatures

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Ekaterina Pirozhenko completed her undergraduate degree, Diploma Summa Cum Laude in German philology at the Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia; M.A. in German Studies at the University of Northern Iowa, and a Ph.D. in Germanic Studies at the...

Alexander Rehding

arehding@fas.harvard.edu

Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, Department of Music

Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University. He obtained a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1998 and went on to postdoctoral fellowships at Cambridge, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton, before joining Harvard...