Teaching Assistants and Associate Instructors
Christian Anderson
Email: vcanderson@ucdavis.edu
Office: 416 Sproul Hall
Office Hours: TBA
Tina Boyer
Email: tboyer@ucdavis.edu
Office: 416 Sproul Hall
Office Hours: TBA
Nancy Corbin
Email: nmcorbin@ucdavis.edu
Office: 416 Sproul Hall
Office Hours: TBA
Sascha Gerhards
Email: sagerhards@ucdavis.edu
Max Kade Fellowship Recipient (2007-08)
Office Hours: TBA
Bastian Heinsohn
Email: baheinsohn@ucdavis.edu
Office: 416 Sproul
Office Hours: TBA
Verena Hutter
Email: vjhutter@ucdavis.edu
Office: 416 Sproul Hall
Office Hours: By Appointment
Katie Kincade
Email: kdkincade@ucdavis.edu
Cota Robles Fellowship Recipient (2007-08 & 2008-09)
Office Hours: TBA
Marcella Livi
Email: mlivi@ucdavis.edu
Office: 416 Sproul Hall
Office Hours: TBA
Jared Loehrmann
Email: jdloehrmann@ucdavis.edu
Office: 416 Sproul
Office Hours: M 10:45-11:45; R 2:40-3:40
Diana Lysinger
Email: dlysinger@ucdavis.edu
Office: Not Teaching
Office Hours: TBA
Anja Stender
Email: atlstender@ucdavis.edu
Office: Not Teaching
Office Hours: TBA
Kevin Wolf
Email: kwwolf@ucdavis.edu
Office: 416 Sproul
Office Hours: MW 2:40-3:40
Biographical Information
Christian Anderson
Christian Anderson studies German literature and philosophy. His dissertation, Pataphysical Discourses in the German Bildungsroman, examines that which points to the unimaginable in works from Goethe, Novalis, Nietzsche, and Musil. He will receive a PhD in June, 2010.
Christian is excited to teach Wagner’s Ring Cycle in the spring quarter, and enjoyed teaching Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha during the 2007-2008 academic year.
In 2007, Christian was honored with the UC Davis "Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award." He is grateful to the many students who wrote on his behalf and who make teaching at Davis such great fun.
Visit his website: christiangrafanderson.com
Tina Boyer
Tina Boyer earned her M.A. on "The reception of Medieval works in the Romantic Age". She is now specializing in Medieval German Studies and Second Language Acquisition.
Her dissertation, entitled Chaos, Order, and Alterity: Function and Significance of Giants in Medieval German Epic, discusses the marginal status of giants in various works of epic poetry. In this context she examines theories of otherness, orientalism, and gender studies. Other interests include Historical Linguistics, poetry of the Romantic Period, reception of Medieval Literature in popular culture, and Nineteenth Century Immigrant History.
Tina has taught a variety of courses ranging from first and second year German to introductory literature classes. In 2006, she received the "Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award."
Nancy Corbin
Nancy Corbin received her BA and MA from San Francisco State University in German. Prior to this, she spent a year studying at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany. She also worked for one year at Robert Bosch GmbH in Leonberg, Germany. Her areas of interest include the German Romantics, Weimar, and Critical Theory. She lives in Ulm, Germany where she is currently writing her dissertation on wounds and illness in selected works by Heinrich von Kleist and teaching English at the University of Applied Sciences, Ulm and at various companies in the region.
Sascha Gerhards
Sascha Andreas Gerhards is a second year Ph.D. student. He earned his B.A. in English Literature and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne, Germany in 2003. He graduated from the University of Rochester, NY with a Master of Arts degree in Comparative Literature in 2005. Shortly after his return to Germany, he decided to apply to Ph.D. programs in the United States. During the application process, Sascha taught English at the University of Cologne, German literature and English at a private tutoring school. In addition, he attended classes in economics at the University of Cologne.
Sascha was awarded a Max Kade Distinguished Fellowship in German Studies for his first year at UC Davis. In the Fall and Winter quarters of his second year at UC Davis, Sascha teaches introductory German courses. In Spring 2009, he will work as a teaching assistant in Film Studies.
Sascha's research interests are the historical, sociocultural and political impact of Social Sciences on contemporary literature and modern music and the question of how literature and the media reflect cultural issues. In order to examine this reflection, he favors employing the thoughts of classical German social scientists such as Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer.
Whenever Sascha is not researching or brooding about the research described above, he enjoys riding his mountain bike or playing the electric guitar.
Bastian Heinsohn
Bastian is a fifth-year graduate student. He is currently completing his dissertation, entitled: "Berlin Streets. The Language of the Urban Street in Postwar German Culture." He teaches German language and literature in the German Department. He is also a Teaching Assistant in Film Studies, where he teaches "Intro to Film" classes. In addition to his teaching at UC Davis, Bastian also enjoys teaching in the Department of Humanities at Berkeley City College. Among his publications is a contribution to a forthcoming volume of the Amsterdamer Beitraege, edited by Barbara Mennel and Jaimey Fisher with the title Spatial Turns: "Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture." In his free time, Bastian enjoys traveling, hiking, photography, reading the newspaper with a cup of coffee in his hand, and going to the movies.
Verena Hutter
Verena is a third year graduate student. She received her M.A. in June 2008 at UCD. Prior to that she studied in Wellington, Konstanz, Jena and Moorhead. Verena is interested in Body Theory (especially Tattoos and Fashion), representations of sexuality, and female Iconography. She enjoys teaching second year German immensely, and is looking forward to Ger 22. In her free time she likes to travel, to cook, and whenever she can, renovating or building furniture.
Katie Kincade
Katie is a first year graduate student in the German Department. In 2006 she received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities with majors in German Studies and Spanish-Portuguese Studies.
During her senior year in high school, Katie was exposed to Platt Deutsch as an exchange student in northern Germany near the Dutch border. While the relationships between Platt Deutsch, Hoch Deutsch, English and Dutch fascinate her, she is also interested in questions of finding identity in multicultural societies. She's interested in the theories of Orientalism, otherness and travel literature in general.
When not in school, Katie can often be found cooking at home, or outdoors taking advantage of the wonderful California weather.
Marcella Livi
Jared Loehrmann
Jared is a first-year PhD student and recipient of the Max Kade Fellowship. He received his BA and MA in German Studies from Brigham Young University, where he published three articles as an undergraduate. His Masters Thesis Die Moderne Frau und ihr Drama: Marie Eugenie delle Grazies Drama Der Schatten (1901), ein Schlüsseltext zur Wiener Moderne will be published in near future. Jared's research interests include, but are not limited to, Drama, Fin-de-Siècle, Bertolt Brecht, and German Film.
Apart from academics, Jared is an avid soccer player, enjoys camping, rock climbing, and biking. Whenever possible, he travels to Germany to visit his family and to stock up on Milka, Lakritz and Knödel.
Diana Lysinger
Diana has completed all the course work for her PhD in German Linguistics and passed her qualifying exam with distinction. She is currently working on her dissertation and teaching German and Russian language classes. Her research and teaching interests include Cognitive Grammar Theory, Second Language Acquisition, Phonetics, Semantics and Stylistics. During her study at UC Davis and Vilnius Pedagogical University (Lithuania), Diana received several awards, including Socrates Erasmus fellowship for study in Heidelberg, Germany, and the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, which she received in May 2007 for excellence in teaching and designing effective and innovative course materials.
Kevin Wolf
Kevin is a fourth-year doctoral candidate at UC Davis. He is writing his dissertation on the multiple functions of bedroom chambers in the Spielmannsepen. He received his B.A. in German Studies from UC Santa Barbara and his M.A. in German Studies and Certificate for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at California State University, Long Beach. Kevin has received several academic awards and scholarships including a stipend from Baden-Württemberg. Since 2004, he has taught Beginning and Intermediate German. Of particular note, Kevin developed an Intermediate German course based upon medieval German literature and its historical reception. His major research interests are German and English medieval literature and culture. In addition to his medieval research, he has a secondary interest in the post-enlightenment reception of the Middle Ages, especially in German Romanticism.