German Studies

German connects you with German speakers throughout Europe. It is the most widely spoken mother tongue in Europa and the official language of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Also, the Germans have made an important contribution to the development of South Australia.

Our teaching

Use your emerging language skills to explore the German-speaking world in all its cultural and literary manifestations, both past and present. Whether you’re a beginner or a more advanced student, build an engaging pathway into a minor, major or diploma, or choose German as a stimulating elective. Supplement your Adelaide German experience by participating in the German in Germany program in Stuttgart, Freiburg or Berlin. Spanning three learning levels, our student-focused program will guide you in developing cutting-edge communications skills, cultural competence and intercultural awareness.

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Our people

Academic Staff

Name	Role
Associate Professor Benjamin McCann	Head of Department of European Languages and Linguistics
Dr. Stefan Hajduk	Senior Lecturer in German Studies, Program Advisor, Teaching of culture and language courses, Honours coordinator. Researcher in Literary Theory and History, Philosophy, Aesthetics and Interculturality.
Dr Simon Walsh	Lecturer in German Studies, Teaching of language and culture courses, Researcher in German Studies.

Name

Role

Associate Professor Benjamin McCann

Head of Department of European Languages and Linguistics

Dr. Stefan Hajduk

Senior Lecturer in German Studies, Program Advisor, Teaching of culture and language courses, Honours coordinator. Researcher in Literary Theory and History, Philosophy, Aesthetics and Interculturality.

Dr Simon Walsh

Lecturer in German Studies, Teaching of language and culture courses, Researcher in German Studies.

Tutors/visitors

Name	Role
Lena Albrecht	DAAD Teaching Assistant
Vanessa Kreusch	PhD candidate and tutor of German language. Her doctoral research looks at foreign language learning in Australia.
Marion Morningstar
Hildegard Belzer
Hedwig Lindner

Our research

We have published research on a large range of discipline and subject areas from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment/Romanticism to nineteenth-century Realism, to Modernist and Postmodernist constellations from the twentieth century to the present.

Our program is distinguished by its multidisciplinary specialisations in literature and philosophy, film and psychology, and Austrian Studies. Current postgraduate work focuses on language learning and identity.

Our academics work on a variety of areas of research.

Stefan Hajduk’s research spans the Literary History from around 1800 to the present; its distinctive feature is a focus on transitions between philosophical aesthetics and poetic configurations of space and time. This core field of research includes knowledge, emotions and moods in literature and leads across to theatre and film as well as to the theory of culture and interculturality.

Simon Walsh’s broad research is on 20th century Austrian and German culture and literature. His current work focuses on the representation of musical Austria within contemporary Austrian literature against the backdrop of Austria’s encounter with its National Socialist past. He also has an interest in holistic discourses (including Gestalt Theory) in twentieth-century German thought.

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