German & Russian Studies Faculty
Sidney Dement
Chair; Associate Professor
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- Alexander Pushkin
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Moscow-Tartu Semiotics
- Intellectual and Cultural History
- Slavic Folklore
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Carl Gelderloos
Associate Professor of German; Director of Undergraduate Studies for German; TRIP Courtesy Title
German and Russian Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- 20th-century German literature and culture
- Weimar modernism and the avant-garde
- the photography of New Objectivity
- Alfred Döblin
- Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School
- Philosophical anthropology
- Science fiction
- Marx and Marxism
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Donald J. Loewen
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Enrollment Management; Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Enrollment; Associate Professor
Enrollment Management; Academic Affairs, Office of the Executive VP and Provost; German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- Russian Language
- Literature and Cultural History
- Russian/Soviet Memory Cultures
- Legacy of Soviet-era Monuments in Post-Soviet Space(s)
- Poetry and Performance in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
- Autobiographies of the Great Russian Poets
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Rosmarie T. Morewedge
Associate Professor
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- Pre-Courtly Medieval German Minstrel Epic
- Fairy Tales
- Folklore, Narratology
- Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy
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Neil Christian Pages
Associate Professor
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- Germanophone and Scandinavian Languages and Literatures
- European Cultural History, Commemorative Practices
- Translation
- Comparative Modernisms
- Text and Image, the Habsburg Empire
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Nancy Tittler
Senior Instructor
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- Russian Language
- Literature and Cultural History
- Russian Theatre
- Language Pedagogy
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Marina Zalesski
Lecturer
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- Russian Language and Culture
- The "Silver Age" in Russian Literature
- Russian Religious Philosophy
- Religion and Soviet Ideology
- Representations of Russian Identity in Literature and Film
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Harald Zils
Associate Professor
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- Anthropological Perspectives on Literature and Philosophy
- Technology in Teaching
- Aesthetic Theories of Production and Reception
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German Language Instructors
Christina Feil
Teaching Assistant
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- The interaction of language, literature, and culture
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Gülden Olgun
Adjunct Instructor
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- Transnational Cinema and Literature
- particularly German-Turkish Cinema and Literature
- Cinemas of displacement and exile
- Kurdish Cinema in Germany
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Rebecca Schäfer
Lecturer
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- queernormativity
- psychological humanities, medical humanities
- practices of antiproductivity, especially through “unproductive” temporal states & concepts (boredom, bad timing, slowness, melancholia, nostalgia & grief)
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Tim Schmidt
Adjunct Instructor
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- Silence
- Melancholy, Cynicism, Machiavellianism
- Hermeneutics and Psychoanalysis
- “Third Culture”
- Robert Musil, Friedrich Nietzsche, Raymond Carver
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Alexander Sorenson
Lecturer
German and Russian Studies; Comparative Literature
Research Interests
- German literature and thought ca. 1800-1917
- Literary, philosophical, and artistic accounts of the relation between human communities and the natural world (ecocriticism, nature writing, eco-phenomenology, posthumanism, etc.)
- Modern European intellectual and cultural history
- Convergences between the natural and human sciences
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Affiliated Faculty
Heather D. DeHaan
Associate Professor
History
Research Interests
- Russia and the Soviet Union
- Eurasian history
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Sean F. Dunwoody
Undergraduate Director; Assistant Professor
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; History
Research Interests
- Early Modern Europe, German lands/Holy Roman Empire
- Religious history
- History and social theory
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Gina Glasman
Lecturer
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Yiddish Language
- History
- Holocaust
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Jeffrey Kirkwood
Associate Professor
Art History
Research Interests
- Media theory and history
- Theory and history of the digital
- Psychoanalysis
- Cinema
- Cultural techniques
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Giovanna Montenegro
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages; Director of LACAS
Comparative Literature; Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program
Research Interests
- Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean
- Environment
- Material and Visual Culture
- Cartography
- Indigenous and Maroon Studies
- Public Humanities
- Digital Humanities
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Ania Nikulina
Research Assistant Professor, Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow
German and Russian Studies; Theatre
Research Interests
- State-sponsored dance
- Artistic protest and censorship
- Dance and Archives
- Dance Ethnography
- Cultural Diplomacy
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Kaitlyn Sorenson
Assistant Professor
Comparative Literature
Research Interests
- Central and Eastern European literature and social thought
- Critical Theory
- Yugoslav neo-avant-garde movements
- Late Socialism
- The Non-Aligned Movement
- Canonicity in Continental Philosophy
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Julia Walker
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Director
Art History; The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH)
Research Interests
- Modern and contemporary architecture
- Post-reunification Germany
- Cultures of architecture and urbanism
- Architectural theory and criticism
- Architecture and gender
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Melissa R. Zinkin
Associate Professor
Philosophy
Research Interests
- History of Philosophy
- Kant
- Aesthetics
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