Jennifer Hoyer

Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. University of Minnesota)

Email: jhoyer@uark.edu

Teaching interests:

German Cinema, German History and Civilization, Comparative Literature, Modern German literature, Poetry, Poetry and Auschwitz, and German language courses from First Semester to Advanced Stylistics for Graduate Students.

Research interests:

German-Jewish history and literature, poetry, 20th-century perceptions of Medieval and Early Modern literature, and literary relationships between Germany and Sweden.

Publication and others:

She is currently working on a book on the early and post-World War II work of poet Nelly Sachs, on whom she has presented and published nationally and internationally. She is on the planning committee for the annual Northwest Arkansas Holocaust Education conference. Hoyer has been and continues to be involved in the German Summer School in Taos Ski Valley, NM.