Julie Prandi, Professor of German, who received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, studied for two years at the Universität Göttingen and one year at the Universität Tübingen. She has published books on German drama and on Goethe’s world view, as well as articles on Felix Mendelssohn and Goethe, Mozart’s Zauberflöte, and Heine’s Buch der Lieder. Areas of interest include German drama, reflections of Enlightenment in German culture, and eighteenth century poetry. In addition to courses in German, she teaches the Humanities course covering the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and a comparative literature course, "Tales of Mystery, Horror and Humor," which includes stories of Kafka, Kleist, Chekhov, and Maupassant.

Julie Prandi's recent book is entitled: The Poetry of the Self-Taught.

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