Joerg Esleben
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Director
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Dir.1er.Cycle.Langues.Modernes.Undergrad.Dir@uottawa.ca
Tel. +1-613-562-5800 ×3759
Office: MHN 245, 70 Laurier Ave. East
Mailing address: Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa, 70 Laurier Ave. East, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5
I teach German language and culture, intercultural studies, and theatre. My research interests are centred around intercultural relations and engaged arts. My previous research and publications include work on 18th-century travel writing, relations between Germany and India, and the Faust theme in Canada. Currently, I am researching the uses of Bertolt Brecht’s work in Canadian theatre and culture (see the online database and exhibition site Brecht in/au Canada) and intersections of arts and hope.
Some further info:
As Undergraduate Director, I coordinate our Major in World Languages and Cultures.
I also coordinate our Department’s German section and Minor in German and maintain relations with the German-speaking community in Ottawa.
I am cross-appointed to the Department of Theatre.
I am co-editor of e-cibs: Electronic Communications of the International Brecht Society.
I direct the German-language amateur theatre group Augenblick!-Theater Ottawa.
I maintain a Leihbücherei, a free lending library of German-language books open to everyone.