David
Barry, Associate Professor of Languages, teaches courses in German
language and literature. While much of his research has focused on German
classicism including several articles on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he
has also published on the work of Theodor Fontane and James Joyce. He is
a graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford, and received his M.A. and Ph.D.
from Queen's University in Canada. He taught German for five years
at Rice University in Houston and joined the faculty at Wittenberg in 1992.
In 1999 he received the Wittenberg Alumni Association Award for Distinguished
Teaching. Click here to contact
him via e-mail. Tel.: (937) 327-6359. Office: 230 Hollenbeck Hall.
Timothy
A. Bennett, Associate Professor of Languages and Chair of the Department, teaches courses in German language,
literature and culture. Bennett received his B.A. from Wittenberg University
in 1978 and then studied at The Johns Hopkins University, where he received
his M.A. in 1980 and his Ph.D in 1985. Following completion of the M.A.
in 1980, he also studied at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität
Münster. He has published on the imbrication of poetic and political
consciousness in the works of Isolde Kurz and Heinrich Mann. He has also
published on Rudolf G. Binding and delivered papers on Heinrich Mann and
Heinrich Böll. He has led student groups to study ecumenism and inter-faith
dialogue at the World Council of Churches in Geneva, at the Vatican, in
the former German Democratic Republic and in Hungary. He co-edited New
Perspectives on the Holocaust: A Guide for Teachers and Scholars. Along
with Rochelle L. Millen, he created a learning community that studies the
complex cultural history of the relationship between Christians and Jews
in Germany: Germans and Jews: Culture, Identity and Difference.
Bennett's interest in interdisciplinary work is also reflected in an article
he co-wrote with Professor Millen for a volume on radical theology in light
of the Holocaust: "Christians and Pharisees: Jewish Responses to Radical
Theology." He came to Wittenberg in 1986. Click
here to contact him via e-mail. Tel.: (937) 327-6353. Office: 227 Hollenbeck Hall.