Rate My Professor Lisabeth Hock

Hock's research focused on German women writers, intersections of gender and medicine, gender and race including Africa and the African diaspora, and scholarship of teaching and learning. Key publications include her book Replicas of a Female Prometheus: The Textual Personae of Bettina von Arnim (Peter Lang, 2001); co-editor with Michelle James and Priscilla Layne of German-Speaking Women, Africa, and the African Diaspora (University of Toronto Press, 2025); "The Gender of Melancholy in Nineteenth-Century German Psychiatry" (History of Psychiatry, 22.4, 2011), winner of Women in German Prize for Best Article of 2011; "Evolutionary Theory and the Female Scientist in Wilhelmine von Hillern’s Ein Arzt der Seele (1869)" (German Studies Review, 37.3, 2014); and co-authored pieces in Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 52.2 (2019), including co-curation of the special issue "Teaching German Studies in a Global Context." Major awards and honors comprise President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (Wayne State University, 2008), WSU Career Development Chair (2012-13), NEH Next Generation Humanities PhD Faculty Mentoring Fellow (2015-16), CLAS Teaching Award (2007), and grants such as WSU CLAS TIDE Award, Educational Development Grant ($1,500, 2019), and CLAS Online Course Development Grant ($3,500, 2019). She taught German from 1010 to doctoral seminars on Berlin representations, East Germany in film and literature, and Weimar Republic, plus courses in gender, sexuality, women’s studies, global studies, and foreign language pedagogy.