People

Peter Gordon

pgordon@fas.harvard.edu

Amabel B. James Professor of History, Department of History

Interim Department Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Peter Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History, Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is a critical theorist and an historian of...

Christina Ackmann

cackmann@g.harvard.edu

Teaching Assistant

Christina completed her M.A. in American Cultural Studies, German as a Foreign Language and Intercultural Communication at the University of Munich in 2016. Her M.A. Thesis focused on German-American Immigrants and their involvement in the prohibition...

Agnes Broomé

agnesbroome@fas.harvard.edu

Preceptor in Scandinavian

Director of Undergraduate Studies in Scandinavian

Agnes Broomé began her studies at the University of Edinburgh, where she completed an M.A. in Linguistics, followed by further studies in London, where she earned an M.A. in Comparative Literature at UCL and studied Classics at King’s College, before...

Conor Bulkeley-Krane

Conor Bulkeley-Krane studied philosophy and German at the University of Chicago, culminating in an undergraduate thesis examining Nietzsche and Thomas Mann’s differing interpretations of Euripides’ The Bacchae, supervised by David Wellbery. Conor then...

Peter J. Burgard

burgard@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of German

Faculty Associate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies

Professor Burgard, who joined the Harvard Faculty 35 years ago, studied at The Johns Hopkins University (B.A.) and at the Universities of Cologne, Bonn, and Virginia (M.A., Ph.D.). He writes on poetry, drama, narrative, and the essay, on painting...

Trine Calhoun

tcalhoun@fas.harvard.edu

Teaching Assistant

Trine Frederiksen Calhoun is originally from Denmark. She completed a B.A. in Scandinavian Languages and Literature at Aarhus University and an M.A. in Communications at Aalborg University, Copenhagen. She taught Danish at schools in Copenhagen and...

Daniel Carranza

dcarranza@fas.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Daniel Carranza studied German literature and philosophy in Portland (OR), Tübingen, Chicago, and Leipzig. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright and Humboldt Foundations. His research...

Elise M. Ciregna

emciregna@fas.harvard.edu

Director of Administration

Faculty affairs; finance; budgets; visas; HR; visiting scholars

Suzannah Clark

Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music, Department of Music; Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center

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Alison Frank Johnson

afrank@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of History and of Germanic Languages and Literatures

On leave 2026-27

Alison Frank Johnson received degrees in German and Russian at Williams College (B.A.) and in History at Harvard University (A.M. and Ph.D.). She also has studied at the Karl Franzens Universität Graz (Austria) and the Jagiellonian University in Kraków...

Mercer Greenwald

Mercer Greenwald is a doctoral student in Harvard’s Germanic Languages & Literatures and the Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality working on the intersections of literature, music, and philosophy from the mid-eighteenth century to the present...

Tonje Cederkvist Gulbrandsen

tonjegulbrandsen@fas.harvard.edu

Teaching Assistant

Tonje C. Gulbrandsen is a native Norwegian and attended University of Stavanger in Norway. She is a Fulbright student and graduated from Columbia Business School in New York in 2005. She has been teaching at Harvard since spring 2019 and has currently 11...