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Christopher J. Wickham
Christopher J. Wickham is emeritus professor of German at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He taught at the Universität Regensburg, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Allegheny College, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Middlebury College (German Summer School) before joining the UTSA faculty in 1991. He served as associate dean in the UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts for nine years and founded and directed the ‘UTSA in Munich’ study abroad programme. He has published seven books, most recently Comanches, Captives, and Germans (State House Press, 2022, co-authored with Daniel J. Gelo, C. B. ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins and Bryden E. Moon, Jr) and The German Texas Frontier in 1853: Ferdinand Lindheimer’s Newspaper Accounts of the Environment, Gold, and Indians (University of North Texas Press, 2024, co-authored with Daniel J. Gelo). His published scholarship includes work on phonetics, Bavarian dialect, German and Austrian cinema, poetry, narrative literature, singer–songwriters, travel writing, humour and painting. He is also a published translator of work by Heinrich von Kleist.
Contact: Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1 UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA.