Faculty Profile
Kamaal Haque
Associate Professor of German (2008)
Contact Information
on sabbatical Fall 2025
Bosler Hall Room M6
717-245-1283
Bio
His research interests include German film, the literature and culture of the German-speaking Alps, and environmental humanities. He has published on such diverse topics as the German mountain film, Swiss literature, the poetry of Goethe, and Muslim minorities in Germany today. In addition to courses at all levels of German language and culture, he has taught recent courses such as The Mountain in the German Cultural Imagination, Minority Cultures in the German Context and Modern German Film.
Education
- B.A., Drew University, 1997
- M.A., Washington University in St. Louis, 2000
- Ph.D., 2006
2025-2026 Academic Year
Spring 2026
INBM 190 The Hills Are Alive
Cross-listed with GRMN 250-01. Course taught in English. Part of the Tourism in the Alps Globally Integrated Program.
GRMN 201 Int German I:Contemp Grm Cltr
What did the Brothers Grimm do besides collecting fairy tales? How do narratives inform national identity? Why do Germans return their empty bottles to the store? Students approach such questions, which touch on language, culture, economics, geography, history, and more, through a variety of media in this course. At the same time, students review grammatical structures, expand their knowledge of stylistic forms, and practice various registers of written and spoken German. German 201 aims to develop students’ skills to understand and reflect upon German-language culture at a basic intermediate level. Classes meet four days a week. Prerequisite: 102 or 103, or permission of the instructor. This course fulfills the language graduation requirement.
GRMN 250 The Hills Are Alive
Cross-listed with INBM 290-02. Part of the Tourism in the Alps Globally Integrated Program. This course will examine the development of the Alps from a place of relative poverty in the 18th and early 19th centuries to one of prosperity today. Topics include the development of tourism, the changing fate of industry in the region as recreation becomes more important, and the challenges and opportunities that climate change are posing to established tourism. While readings will mostly be non-fiction, we will also look at the representation of these changes in literature and film. Course taught in English. The course is taught in affiliation with the Burgess Center for the Global Economy, with optional travel (at additional cost as a GIS). Taught in English.