Kenneth Calhoon
Graduated: Spring 1984, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Kenneth Calhoon (Ph.D., spring 1984) taught for two years at Haverford and Bryn Mawr colleges before joining the University of Oregon's faculty in 1987. He spent academic year 1994-95 at the University of Bonn as a Humboldt Fellow. He has served as director of Oregon's Program in Comparative Literature and acting director of Oregon's Creative Writing Program. Most recently, he has contributions on Mörike and Fontane in The New History of German Literature (Harvard 2005). Another essay, "Charming the Carnivore: Bruce Chatwin's Australian Odyssey," is forthcoming. Professor Calhoon recently spoke at a conference entitled “Landschaftsgänge — Bewusstseinslandschaften: Zur Kulturgeschichte und Poetik des Spaziergangs” held on the Museuminsel Hombroich.
Alexander Gardner
Graduated: Spring 2007, B.A. University of California, Irvine
Alexander Gardner (B.A., spring 2007) has entered the Ph.D. program in the German Department at Yale University
Charles Hammond, Jr.
Graduated: Spring 2006, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Charles Hammond, Jr. (Ph.D., spring 2005) is an Assistant Professor of German at the University of Tennessee at Martin (UTM). Since his arrival in Martin in 2004, he has cultivated an active exchange program with the Technische Universität Braunschweig and the nearby city of Wolfenbüttel. In the summer of 2008, more than 25 UTM students will take part in the exchange.
Burkhard Henke
Graduated: Fall 1993, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Burkhard Henke (Ph.D., fall 1993), having been at Davidson College since 1993, has taught a variety of courses on German language, literature, and history as well courses in the Humanities program and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. His publication record includes articles on Schiller and Goethe and a book on Goethe's Weimar which he edited with Susanne Kord and Simon Richter. He currently serves on the board of the Goethe Society of North America and as president of the NC-AATG. To help strengthen articulation between secondary and postsecondary education on his campus, he founded the German Summer Institute, an annual opportunity for high school teachers of German to earn continuing education credits.
Kendra Leindecker Mirasol
Graduated: Spring 1988, B.A. University of California, Irvine
Kendra Leindecker Mirasol (B.A., spring 1988) is currently Senior Vice President for IOR Global Services, an intercultural consulting company that helps clients develop their employees to operate effectively in the global marketplace. She runs the business and is responsible for the strategic and financial growth of the company. IOR is a premier provider of global talent management, cultural training, language instruction and destination services. She sponsors the UCI German department Leindecker Travel Award.
Susan Morse
Graduated: Spring 2006, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Susan Morse (Ph.D., spring 2006) has stayed in the Orange County area for personal and family reasons. As a graduate student she spent several years as an instructor in the Humanities Core Course at UCI and has since become a veteran lecturer in the program, where she regularly teaches honors sections. She also teaches ESL to international students for UCI Extension. She has published articles on Freshman writing and often presents on topics related to pedagogy and the use of various forms of technology to enhance the learning environment.
Keith Mueller
Graduated: Spring 2006, B.A. University of California, Irvine
Keith Mueller (B.A, spring 2006) has put his studies to good use! He works in sales for a high tech company in Torrance, California, that is a subsidiary of a German firm. He did his training in Germany, works with several native Germans, and speaks and writes German daily. Keith is excited about the possibility that he will be able to transfer to Germany eventually.
Peter C. Pfeiffer
Graduated: Spring 1987, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Peter C. Pfeiffer (Ph.D., spring 1987), after chairing the German Department at Georgetown University for eight out of the past ten years, is happy to be a regular faculty member again. He is currently completing a book on Austrian woman writer Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach which will be published by Francke Verlag in Tübingen in 2008.
Alexander Phillips
Graduated: Spring 2007, B.A. University of California, Irvine
Alexander Phillips (B.A., spring 2007) has deferred starting the Ph.D. program in German Studies at Cornell University to study one year in Berlin thanks to his Fulbright Fellowship.
Stephan Schindler
Graduated: Fall 1990, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Stephan Schindler (Ph.D., fall 1990) is Professor of German, Comparative Literature and Film Studies at Washington University in St. Louis and is currently serving as department chair. His books include Eingebildete Körper: Phantasierte Sexualität in der Goethezeit (Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2001) and Das Kind als Subjekt. Die Erfindung der Kindheit im Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts (Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1994).
Magadena Tarnawska
Graduated: Spring 2005, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Magadena Tarnawska (Ph.D., spring 2005) is now an Assistant Professor of German at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Her book …und Medea war eine Ärztin Constructions of Femininity in Public Debates about Medical Education for Women in Germany and Austria between 1870 and 1910 has recently been published (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2007).
Eva Wessell
Graduated: Winter 1987, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Eva Wessell (Ph.D., winter 1987) has remained in Orange County California for family reasons since receiving her degree. She has been one of the veteran lecturers in UCI’s Humanities Core Course, often teaching honors sections. She has also taught for UCI German as well as the University of Southern California and Saddleback College. She retired last year from UCI, but is being recalled to teach an undergraduate, upper-division literature course for us winter quarter 2008. Eva has published on freshman writing and individually and collaboratively (with Herbert Lehnert) on Thomas Mann.
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