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A medievalist, she has expanded her interests to include contemporary fiction, specifically representations of the past in popular fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Degrees<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ph.D.<\/strong>&nbsp;Germanic Languages and Literatures (University of Illinois)<br><strong>M.A.<\/strong>&nbsp;Germanic Languages and Literatures (University of Illinois)<br><strong>B.A.<\/strong>&nbsp;German (Middlebury College)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Katya Skow Professor Emeritus German Dr. Katya Skow is a Professor Emeritus of German. She teaches literature, culture, and language. She earned the PhD in German from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a dissertation on\u00a0Die sieben weisen Meister. 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