German Studies


German Studies

Program Committee


Joseph Malloy, Ph.D., Associate Professor of German

jmalloy@hamilton.edu

Malloy, who earned a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, came to Hamilton in 1982. His research interests are opera, including German, Mozart, 18th and 19th centuries, including Wagner; German poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially Goethe and the Romantic School; and computer technology and instructional uses.


Edith Toegel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of German

etoegel@hamilton.edu

Born in Vienna, Austria, Toegel studied at the University of Vienna and earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at Tufts University and her doctorate from the University of Washington. She has been a Hamilton faculty member since 1993, specializing in 19th and 20th century German and Austrian literature and culture. Her articles have appeared in German Life and Letters, Oxford German Studies, Forum for Modern Language Studies, and Modern Austrian Literature. Her critical biography of the life of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, a 19th century Austrian writer, was published in 1997. Toegel held the position of associate dean of students/study abroad from 2002-2006.


Peggy Piesche, Visiting Instructor of German and Russian

ppiesche@hamilton.edu
Peggy Piesche earned a master’s degree in modern German literature, philosophy and ancient history at the University of Tübingen (Germany). She was a fellow of the Graduate School Travel Literature and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Paderborn, where she is completing her doctoral dissertation on the construction of subjectivity and travel in the late novels of Christoph Martin Wieland. Piesche received grants from the Volkswagen Foundation and Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation for the interdisciplinary research project “Black Europe. History of a Forgotten Continent” (with University of Massachusetts and University of Mainz/ 2004-2007), which she co-founded. She has published on literature and representation of ethnic minorities in 20th and 21st century German literature.

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