Dr. John PustejovskyDr. John Pustejovsky, associate professor of German, is presently serving as interim dean of the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences. A native of Texas, he received his undergraduate education at Marquette University; after a year as a Fulbright scholar at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität-Tübingen, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, with a specialization in 18th century German literature. He joined the Marquette faculty in 1982.

Pustejovsky served as the associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Marquette for six years, and during that time co-chaired the Core Curriculum Review Steering Committee. In 2004 he was awarded the John P. Raynor, S.J., Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence.

Pustejovsky has developed courses on the modern German short story, the social history of German drama, and other topics including “Witness and Resistance in German Literature.” Together with Dr. John D. Krugler, he developed the first-year seminar Introduction to Inquiry, and has taught shared inquiry to faculty at universities across the country.

Pustejovsky is also president of the Wisconsin chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German. He and his wife Susan, a professor of mathematics at Alverno College, have two sons, James and Robert.

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