Dr. Thomas Buckley
Assistant Professor of German
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Office - Bellarmine 317
Phone: 610-660-1859
Fax: 610-660-2160
Email: buckley@sju.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Courses Taught
Dr. Buckley regularly teaches First-Year German (1011-1021), German Conversation and Composition (1311-1321), and upper-division courses on German literature and culture from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century (From the Enlightenment to Realism, From Bismarck to Hitler: 1871-1945, Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century). In addition, he has taught Advanced German Conversation and Composition as well as a course on the fantastic in German literature.
Research
His teaching and research interests include:
- German Poetic Realism (mid-nineteenth century)
- Fin-de-Siècle Germany
- Relations between Literature and Science
- Modernity (early twentieth century)
- Swiss-German authors, especially Gottfried Keller
- Language Pedagogy
