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About University of Galway
About University of Galway
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at University of Galway
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
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Accessibility & LanguagePeople
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. (on maternity leave)
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: Modern and contemporary German and comparative literature, translation studies (theory, practice, localisation and adaptation), distraction, human and built environments at their intersections with well-being, medical humanities, autobiography (theory, practice).
Antonia Musolff (antonia.musolff@universityofgalway.ie)
DAAD Lecturer. AMB-2045. Erasmus Coordinator Arts Incoming & Outgoing. 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.
Lecturer. AMB-2005. German Beginners Coordinator.
Research Interests: Podcasts in Teaching Methodology, Language Teaching
Research Interests: Podcasts in Teaching Methodology, Language Teaching
Lecturer. AMB-2001. Teaching in Second and Final Year Arts: GR238 Beyond DACH: German as a Minority, Heritage and Colonial Language, GR337 Sociolinguistics of German.
Research Interests: Language ideologies, family language policy, language policy in education, linguistic minoritization, migration.
Maybritt Bonifer (maybritt.bonifer@universityofgalway.ie)
Foreign Language Assistant. AMB-2025. Teaching German Language in all years.
Interests: GO Projects such as 2026 GO Heimat. Global Outreach: Education for global citizenship involves awareness raising, knowledge and activities which aim to equip all participants with the skills and understanding to take responsibility, value diversity and play an active part in European democratic life today.
Graduate Teaching Assistant and PhD student. Teaching in Second Year and in Final Year Arts: GR238 Intertextuality and Intermediality in German-Language Media, GR337 Contemporary German Crime Fiction on TV and in Literature
Nura Alwani (nura.alwani@universityofgalway.ie)
Administrator
