Winder McConell

Winder McConnell studied German literature and modern German history as an undergraduate at McGill University, from which he graduated in 1967 with honors in both disciplines. He received his PhD from the University of Kansas in 1973. He has taught at a Gymnasium in Germany, Stanford University, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Stirling, Scotland, and at the University of California, Santa Barbara (summer program).

Professor McConnell has been on the faculty of the University of California, Davis, for over thirty-one years, eighteen and a half of which as Chair of the Department of German and Russian. He is currently Director of the Teaching Resources Center on the Davis campus. In summer 2000, he established a Summer Abroad Program for UC and non-UC students at the Heinrich-Heine Universität focusing on “National Socialist Aesthetics,” which he ran successfully for eight summers.