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Julia Karolle-Berg, PhD

Professor/Chair - Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures

eMail

jkarolle@jcu.edu

Phone Number

216-397-4193

Location

O'Malley Center 133

Employee Type

Faculty

Office Hours

Spring 2023: MWF

12:30 - 2:00 pm

WF

8:00 - 8:50 am

Other times by appointment.

Zoom options available.

Professor of German

Biography

Julia Karolle-Berg joined the JCU faculty in 2002. A native of Michigan, she has spent over four years in Germany and Switzerland, including stays in Berlin, Freiburg, and Basle. In 2010, Karolle-Berg received the Lucrezia Culicchia Award for Teaching Excellence from the JCU College of Arts and Sciences. She served as Director of the Honors Program from 2011-2015.

Recent Publications

“Between Continuity and Change:  Early twentieth-century German-language crime and detective novels and the ‘Familienkrimi.’”  German Life and Letters 71.4 (2018): 415-433.

“On the Popularity of the Kriminalroman: The Reception, Production, and Consumption of German Crime and Detective Novels (1919–1933).” German Quarterly 91.3 (2018): 305-321.

“Fahnderwachtmeister Jakob Studer.” One Hundred Greatest Literary Detectives. Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018, pp. 174-76.

“The Case of the Missing Literary Tradition: Reassessing Four Assumptions of Crime and Detective Novels in the German-Speaking World (1900-1933).” Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literaturund Kultur 107.3 (2015): 431-54.

Degrees

  • M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison