Faculty

Frederick A. Lubich
Professor of German; Chief Departmental Advisor 

Frederick A. Lubich studied in Germany, Great Britain and the United States and received his Ph.D. in German literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1983. His teaching appointments include Brown University, Columbia University and Rutgers University, and he has been chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Old Dominion University from 1997 to 2008. He is the author and editor of five scholarly books on modern German literary and cultural history and close to sixty scholarly articles, journalistic essays and encyclopedia entries on topics such as contemporary literature, sexual politics, the visual arts, popular music and German-Jewish relations. He has also translated film and musical scripts, published poetry in literary journals and anthologies, conducted interviews with various political and cultural figures including authors, musicians and Holocaust survivors, and has given numerous conference papers and guest lectures in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia.

Heidi Schlipphacke
Associate Professor

Heidi Schlipphacke received her Ph.D. in German Literature in 1999 from the University of Washington. Prior to coming to Old Dominion University she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She teaches courses on modern German literature, language, culture, and film. She also teaches film courses in conjunction with the Film Studies program. Her research focuses on issues of gender, family, and nation in the discourses of the European Enlightenment and its critique in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She has  published articles in journals such as Camera Obscura, The German Quarterly, and The Lessing Yearbook, among others. She recently completed a monograph entitled After Nostalgia: Fascism, Family, and the German Postmodern.