Christina Feil
Teaching Assistant
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- The interaction of language, literature, and culture
Gulden Olgun
Lecturer
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- Migrants and refugees in the German and global context
- Diaspora and cultural production
- Feminist and sexuality studies
- Minority cinemas
- Minority and immigrant representation
- Foreign language pedagogy
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)
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
Alexander Sorenson
Lecturer
Comparative Literature; German and Russian Studies
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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