People

People in German at the University of Galway

Head of Discipline: Dr. Deirdre Byrnes

E-mail: deirdre.byrnes@universityofgalway.ie
AMB-2003, Top Floor, Arts Millennium Building
Tel: +353 (0)91  49 2014 

Lecturing staff

Dr Deirdre Byrnes (deirdre.byrnes@universityofgalway.ie)
Senior Lecturer. AMB-2003. HoD, Legal German Coordinator, Erasmus Coordinator Legal German
Research Interests: GDR literature, contemporary women writers in German-language literature, generational memory transmission, representation of the Law and the legal system in literature.

Dr Tina-Karen Pusse (tina-karen.pusse@universityofgalway.ie)
Senior Lecturer/ Associate Prof. AMB-2051. MA Coordinator
Research Interests: Ecocriticism, Gender Studies, German poetry of the early 20th century, German literature from 1880 to 1945.

Dr Jeannine Jud (jeannine.jud@universityofgalway.ie)
Lecturer. AMB-2001. First Year Coordinator, Erasmus Coordinator for BComm with German.
Research Interests: Multilingualism and language developments in Switzerland and Ireland as well as GDR literature, Holocaust literature and trauma and memory studies.

Dr Thomas Wilks (thomas.wilks@universityofgalway.ie)
Lecturer. AMB-2002. BComm with German Coordinator
Research Interests: Distraction in Sickness and in Health in German Literature.

Antonia Musolff (antonia.musolff@universityofgalway.ie)
DAAD Lecturer. AMB-2045. Erasmus Coordinator Arts. Biotechnology & Science with German Coordinator. 
Research Interests: Postmigration discourses in Germany and migration studies, GDR remembrance culture, Decolonization of the German studies curriculum and innovative foreign language didactics like performative foreign language didactics or podcasting. 

Vincent O'Connell (vincent.oconnell@universityofgalway.ie) Lecturer. AMB-2005. German Beginners Coordinator. 
Research Interests: Podcasts in Teaching Methodology, Language Teaching.

Administrator

Natalie R. Nevin
AMB-2006. T : 091 49 2226
german@universityofgalway.ie