People in Germanic
The Retired Faculty
ILSEDORE EDSE, PhD (Ohio State University, 1966). Associate Professor Emerita.
Specializations: German radio and TV instructional programs.
Books/Films: Deutsche -Stunde (1958); German Playhouse, Series I, II (1962, 1965); Ja, German Spoken I, II, III (1967, 1968, 1968); Let's Speak German (1976); Wie Geht's (1977); German Workshop "Conversational German Text" (1980).
Articles on: Language Instruction; Media Language Learning. Major courses taught: German Composition and Conversation, German for Reading Knowledge, 20th- Century German Literature, German Drama, Business German, Intermediate Language Instruction.
The Ilsedore Edse Scholarship
WERNER HAAS, PhD (Karl-Franzens Universität, Graz, 1951). Professor. Director of Undergraduate Individualized Instruction. Visiting Appointments: The American Institute for Musical Studies, 1983, 1984, 1985; United States Air Force Academy, 1980-81; Assistant-Director, Middlebury College Summer School, 1968-71; Study Leader, Alpine Countryside Tour of the Smithsonian Institution, 1983-present. Director, The American Institute of Musical Studies, Graz, Austria, 1986-present.
Specializations: Austrian history, German language instruction and textbooks.
Books: Aus deutscher Geschichte (1966); Die Deutschen und die Österreicher (1969); Bismarck (1972); co-authored Fortschritt Deutsch (1975); co-authored Perspektiven zu aktuellen Fragen (1978); DECU: Deutscher Computer Unterricht (1972); TUCO (1973); co-authored Anders gelehrt, anders gelernt (1978); Deutsch für Kadetten (1982); Sprechen wir darüber (1984); co-authored German, A Self-Teaching Guide (1986) and Deutsch für alle. Beginning College German: A Comprehensive Approach (1980, 1983, 1987, 4th ed. 1993).
Articles on: teaching methods, computer assisted learning, Moeller van den Bruck.
Major courses taught: Stylistics, Early German Literature in Cultural Contexts, Composition and Conversation, Current Events in German-speaking Countries, Contemporary German, German Culture of the 19th and 20th Century.
DONALD C. RIECHEL, PhD (Ohio State University, 1970). Associate Professor.
Specializations: Goethe; 19th- and early 20th-century literature; interrelations of literature and the visual arts; history of art, 19th century; cultural history.
Publications on: Fontane, Keyserling, Stifter, Hamsun, Dinesen, Goethe.
Major courses taught: Goethe's Faust; Nietzsche; Heine; Fontane; Thomas Mann; Musil; Realism in Literature and Painting; Vienna 1900, Dinesen.
HEIMY F. TAYLOR, PhD (Washington University, 1973). Professor, Coordinator of Computer-Based Education.
Specializations: foreign language pedagogy; computer assisted instruction; phonetics; and nineteenth-century literature with emphasis on the Novelle; literature in the foreign language classroom.
Books: German: A Self-Teaching Guide (1986); Der Einsatz von Computern im Fremdsprachenunterricht (1985); Using Computers in Foreign Language Teaching (1984); Sprechen wir darüber - German Conversation: A Functional Approach (1984). Edited Book: "Wirtschaftsdeutsch - Business German Courses and the newly developed Diplom Wirtschaftsdeutsch," Proceedings of the Conference of the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators of Foreign Language Programs (1986); Friedrich Dürrenmatt: A Collection of Critical Essays (1979).
Articles on: Computer assisted instruction; pedagogy; individualized instruction.
Major courses taught: German Prose; 19th-Century Literature; German Composition and Conversation; Weimar and Fascism in German Literature and Film; Business German.
GISELA VITT, PhD (Washington University, 1964). Professor Emerita. Visiting Appointments: Middlebury College, Summers 1966, 1968, 1970.
Specializations: Comparative Literature; European Romanticism; 19th- Century German Literature; Stylistics.
Books: E.T.A. Hoffmanns Märchenschaffen: Kaleidoskop der Verfremdung in seinen sieben Märchen (1989).
Articles on: E.T.A. Hoffmann; Romanticism; Ludwig Tieck; Fairy Tales; Fantastic Literature; 19th-Century Literature; C.F. Meyer; Thornton Wilder.
Major courses taught: Seminars on E.T.A. Hoffmann, German Novel Theory, Hoffmann-Poe-Dostojevski, C.F. Meyer; Introduction to the Humanities; Methods of Teaching Literature; German Stylistics; Fairy Tales; German-Swiss Literature; German Romanticism.
HARRY VREDEVELD, PhD (Princeton University, 1970). Professor Emeritus.
Specializations: Neo-Latin poetry in northern Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Books: Critical edition, with translation, of Helius Eobanus Hessus, Dichtungen der Jahre 1528-1537 (1991); annotated edition, with translation by Clarence H. Miller, Erasmus, Poems, Collected Works of Erasmus, vols. 85 and 86 (1993); annotated critical edition, Erasmi carmina, Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami, series I, vol. 7 (1995). The Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus, vol. 1 (2004).
Articles on: Tieck; Eobanus Hessus; Erasmus of Rotterdam; Sebastian Brant; Baptista Mantuanus; Anthologia Latina; Ecloga Theoduli.
Major courses taught: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque literature; stylistics and rhetoric; Middle High German; history of the language; Dutch for reading knowledge.
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