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William Weihe
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor German Studies
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Washington Hall 225
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Will Weihe, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (German Studies), received his Ph.D. in German Literature at Pennsylvania State University. Professor Weihe’s research focuses on the topics of race, colonial violence, and mass rebellion as constitutive elements of German literature from the eighteenth century to the present. His teaching assignments include Elementary German and German Colonialism.
He has published on colonial development and Black and Indigenous resistance in the works of Heinrich von Kleist. He has further written on the connections between German revolutionary movements and radical abolitionism in the U.S., as well as anticolonial cultural production in interwar Berlin.