Faculty

Joshua Kavaloski, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of German, Director of German Studies, Assistant Director of the Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study
Email: jkavalos@drew.edu
Phone: 973-408- 3549
Professor Kavaloski’s primary research examines the culture of modernism.  His scholarly and teaching interests also include twentieth-century German literature, recent German cinema, and questions of high/low culture. He has published essays about novels by Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Jurek Becker, and Daniel Kehlmann, as well as about other non-literary media such as graphic novels and films.

Edye Lawler, Ph.D.

Professor of German
Email: elawler@drew.edu
Professor Lawler, who retired in 2011, concentrates on nineteenth-century German literature, philosophy, and theology. She served for many years as Dean of Educational Services at Drew University.

Christopher Merz

Adjunct Instructor of German
Email: cmerz@drew.edu 
Phone: 973-408-3797

Elfriede Smith

Professor Emerita of German
Email: ebsmith@drew.edu
Professor Smith, who retired in 2008, is interested in eighteenth- and twentieth-century German literature, German civilization and culture, and teaching methodologies.