Teaching-Affiliated Faculty

Faculty

Dowden, Steve

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.

Dubinina, Irina Y

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

Duncan, Michelle R.

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.

Feng, Yu

Associate Professor of Chinese

Expertise: Modern Chinese language, classical Chinese language, traditional Chinese philosophy (Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism), and Chinese cultural heritage as a whole.

Fraleigh, Matthew

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

Freeze, ChaeRan Yoo

Associate Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise: East European Jewish history.

Freeze, Gregory

Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of History

Expertise: Modern Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet history

Lu, Xiwen

Lecturer in Chinese

Expertise: Teaching Chinese As A Second Language Language Acquisition

Miller, Robin Feuer

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.

Nakano, Yukimi

Lecturer in Japanese

Powelstock, David

Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature

Expertise: Modern Russian Literature, Modern Czech Literature, Russian & Czech Languages, Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Translation Studies

Seidl-Gomez, Kathrin

Assistant Professor of German and Director, German Language Program

Sekino, Hiroko

Senior Lecturer in Japanese

Sheppard, Eugene R

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.

Singh, Harleen

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

Sreenivasan, Govind

Associate Professor of History

Expertise: Early modern European history. Germany.

Szulkin, Robert

Professor Emeritus of Germanic and Slavic Languages

Takeichi Hodes, Eiko

Lecturer in Japanese

von Mering, Sabine

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

Wang, Pu

Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Language and Culture

Wei, Jian

Visiting Scholar in the Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature

Wong, Aida Yuen

Associate Professor of Fine Arts

Expertise: Asian art.

Woolhiser, Curt F.

Lecturer in Russian

Yack, Bernard

Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy

Expertise: Political theory. History of political thought. Nationalism. Cultural pluralism.

Yan, Hong

Lecturer in Chinese

Yang, Qingyu

Visiting Scholar in the Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature