Sigmund Barber -- Professor of German. BA, MA and Ph.D., State University of New York, Albany. Professor Barber teaches courses ranging from the pre-Middle Ages to the Enlightenment and Storm and Stress movements. His research focuses on 16th- through 18th-century literature. He has been teaching at Grinnell College since 1977.

Jenny Michaels -- Professor of German. MA, University of Edinburgh, Scotland; MA and Ph.D., McGill University, Canada. Professor Michaels teaches late 19th- and 20th-century literature. Her research interests include Expressionism, Weimar and World War II literature. She has been teaching at Grinnell College since 1975.

Daniel Reynolds -- Assistant Professor of German. BS, Georgetown University; Ph.D., Harvard University. Professor Reynolds teaches 19th- and 20th-century literature. His research interests include modernist literature and culture, and the intersections of history and fiction. He has been teaching at Grinnell College since 1998.

Vance Byrd -- Assistant Professor of German. BA, University of Georgia; MA and Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Professor Byrd teaches German language as well as 18th- and 19th-century literature at Grinnell. His research interests include early nineteenth-century panorama exhibitions, the authors E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ludwig Achim von Arnim, and Adalbert Stifter, as well as the Weimar fashion periodical Das Journal des Luxus und der Moden.