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  Update:
  Professor Herbst retired in December 2004 after 25 years at Rutgers. After a farewell party held by the German Department faculty, Professor Herbst left for her new residence in Providence, Rhode Island.
   
  Education:
 
   
  Research Interests:
 
  • "Age of Goethe"
  • Schiller
  • short prose narrative
  • film studies
  • culture and civilization
  • women writers of the early 19th century
  • epistolary novels of Early German Romanticism
  • socio-psychological aspects of violence in Kleist
  • 18th century German language dialects of Moravian settlers in America
       
   

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