Faculty & Staff

Katharina Altpeter-Jones

Associate Professor of German Language and Literature (Sabbatical 2012-13)
Box: 30
Phone:(503)768-7430
E-mail: altpeter@lclark.edu

Katja Altpeter-Jones joined the faculty of Lewis and Clark College as Assistant Professor of German in 2003. A German native, she received her Magister in English and French literature from the Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg, Germany, and her Ph.D. in German Studies from Duke University in 2003, with a concentration in German literature of the Middle Ages and a certificate in Women’s Studies. She currently teaches first and third year language classes, an introduction to German literature from the beginning to the Enlightenment, and a German literature in translation course that explores representations of femininity and masculinity in German literature from the 12th century to the present. She has published on the early modern figure of the She-Man and has contributed an entry on the medieval tale of Flore und Blanscheflur to the forthcoming volume Women and Gender in Medieval Europe in the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages Series. Dr. Altpeter-Jones is currently working on an article on representations of marital violence in late medieval and early modern German text and image.

 

Therese Augst

Assistant Professor of German
German Section Head 2012-13
E-mail: taugst@lclark.edu
Phone: (503) 768-7423

Therese Augst joined the program at Lewis & Clark in 2008 after spending several years at Princeton University, where she taught courses in language, literature, and culture.  She has also held visiting posts at Stanford and the University of California, Santa Barbara.  She received her PhD in German Studies from UCSB in 1998.  Since arriving at Lewis and Clark she has taught courses at all levels and on a variety of topics, including Modernism and the City, Madness and the Artist, The Art and Culture of Translation, and German Film Auteurs of the Twentieth Century.  She also regularly teaches courses in the second and third year German language sequence. Her book, Tragic Effects: Ethics and Tragedy in the Age of Translation (Ohio State University Press, 2012) focuses on how the German fascination with Greek tragedy coincides with modern ethical questions of translation and cultural transmission.  Dr. Augst has also published articles on translations by the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, secret love letters between Hölderlin and his beloved Susette Gontard, German-Jewish exiles in Hollywood, and dream writing at the turn of the twentieth century.  Her most recent work, including an article forthcoming in the journal Modernism/Modernity, is concerned with collaborations and conversations among women artists working in different media, including poetry, painting, photography, and craft.  At the moment she is obsessed with the intrepid weavers of the Bauhaus, a group of women artisans in the early 20^th century who aimed to situate traditional craft practices within modern industry and thereby save the world from a rapidly expanding culture of disposability and waste.

In her spare time, Dr. Augst enjoys being with friends and family, exploring the outdoors, eating well, traveling, and making her own clothes.

 

 

Tammo Feldmann

Visiting Instructor of German
Email:  tfeldmann@lclark.edu
Phone:  (503) 768-7430

Tammo Feldmann received his MA (Staatsexamen) in English from Carl von Ossietzky Universität in Oldenburg, Germany.  Mr. Feldmann has taught German in USA since 2007.

 

Katharina Roth

German Language Assistant 2012-13
Phone: 503/768-7172
Email: rothk@lclark.edu

Katharina Roth is the German Language Assistant for 2012-13. She received her B.A. in History and German studies from Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald. Currently, Katharina is pursuing her M.A. in German as a Foreign Language at Ludwig- Maximilians Universität München. In 2008-09 she taught German at Alma College in Michigan. During her free time Katharina loves to travel, meet new people, and to be involved in outdoor activities such as skiing and hiking.