Teaching-Affiliated Faculty
Faculty
Professor of German
Expertise: Modern German Literature and culture; European modernism; comparative literature (esp. comparing literature with other art forms); the novel as form; literature and philosophy.
Lecturer in Russian and Director, Russian Language Program
Expertise: Bilingualism, bilingual code-switching, heritage languages (Russian) Second language acquisition general and language specific (Russian) Language policies in the former Soviet Republics
Lecturer in German
Expertise: Cultural and Intellectual History; Opera, Media, and Performance Studies; History of Art and Visual Culture; Psychoanalysis; Gender, Sexuality, and Critical Race Theory.
Associate Professor of Chinese
Expertise: Modern Chinese language, classical Chinese language, traditional Chinese philosophy (Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism), and Chinese cultural heritage as a whole.
Assistant Professor of East Asian Literature and Culture
Expertise: Classical and modern Japanese literature and language, cultural and literary exchange between China and Japan; literature of travel
Associate Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies
Expertise: East European Jewish history.
Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of History
Expertise: Modern Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet history
Senior Advisor to the Provost for Faculty and Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities
Expertise: The novel in Russia and Europe of the nineteenth century. The short story in Russia. The literature of childhood.
Lecturer in Japanese
Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature
Expertise: Modern Russian Literature, Modern Czech Literature, Russian & Czech Languages, Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Translation Studies
Assistant Professor of German and Director, German Language Program
Senior Lecturer in Japanese
Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought
Expertise: Modern German and German-Jewish intellectual history. A special interest in modern German Jewish thought, and the impact of European Jewish refugees on the American, European, and Israeli public sphere as well as the academy.
Helaine and Alvin Allen Assistant Professor of Literature
Expertise: Colonial and Postcolonial Theory and Literature. 19th and 20th century British and South Asian Literature. Immigrant Writing - British, Caribbean, United States. Gender and Women's Studies. Film Studies. South Asian Studies
Associate Professor of History
Expertise: Early modern European history. Germany.
Professor Emeritus of Germanic and Slavic Languages
Lecturer in Japanese
Associate Professor of German and Women's and Gender Studies, and Director, Center for German and European Studies
Expertise: German as a Foreign Language; Jewish-German Dialogue; German Women Writers, German Cinema, Age of Goethe
Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Language and Culture
Visiting Scholar in the Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature
Lecturer in Russian
Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy
Expertise: Political theory. History of political thought. Nationalism. Cultural pluralism.
Lecturer in Chinese
Visiting Scholar in the Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature