Congratulations to our colleague MARTHA HELFER, winner of the 2019 SAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching (Professor Category).
Martha is a Professor of German and core member of the Comparative Literature faculty. Her interests include literature of the Age of Goethe, Romantic aesthetic and philosophical theories, German intellectual history (18th-20th century), gender and subjectivity, philosophical approaches to literature, and German Jewish Studies. Among her many publications is The Word Unheard: Legacies of Anti-Semitism in German Literature and Culture (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2011).