GRALL Faculty

Stephen Dowden
Stephen Dowden
Professor of German
Chair, Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
781-736-3218 Shiffman Humanities Center 211
Office Hours: M/W/Th 11:00 - 12:00 pm or By Appointment
Kathrin Breuer
Kathrin Breuer
Associate Professor of German, Undergraduate Advising Head for German Studies
Director of the German Language Program
781-736-3299 Shiffman Humanities Center 210
Office Hours: On Leave for Spring 2024
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Chunzi Chai
Lecturer in Chinese
781-736-2678 Mandel 120
Office Hours: M/W/Th 11:00 - 12:00 pm or By Appointment
Irina Dubinina
Irina Dubinina
Associate Professor of Russian
Director of the Russian Language Program
781-736-3223 Shiffman Humanities Center 206
Office Hours: T/W 12:30 - 1:30 pm or By Appointment

Expertise: Heritage languages (Russian), bilingualism, bilingual code-switching; second language acquisition, general and language specific (Russian); language policies in the former Soviet Republics

Eun-Jo Lee
Eun-Jo Lee
Lecturer in Korean
Director of the Korean Language Program
781-736-3358 Rabb 117

Expertise: Teaching Korean as a foreign/second language; heritage language maintenance and development; sociocognitive perspectives on language teaching and learning

Fraleigh
Matthew Fraleigh
Associate Professor of East Asian Literature and Culture
781-736-3229 Mandel 115
Office Hours: M/W 10:00 - 11:00 am or By Appointment

Expertise: Classical and modern Japanese literature and language, cultural and literary exchange between China and Japan, literature of travel, Sinitic poetry and prose in East Asia

Hisae Fujiwara
Hisae Fujiwara
Assistant Professor of Japanese
Director of the Japanese Language Program, Undergraduate Advising Head
781-736-2976 Mandel 116
Office Hours: M/W 1:30 - 3:00 pm or By Appointment

Expertise: Vocabulary acquisition in Japanese as a foreign language, Kanji acquisition for students with alphabet-language backgrounds, using strategies for reading Japanese as a foreign language

Robin Feuer Miller
Robin Feuer Miller
Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities
Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
781-736-3192 Shiffman Humanities Center 215
Office Hours: By Appointment

Expertise: The novel in Russia and Europe of the nineteenth century, the short story in Russia, childhood and children's literature

Yukimi Nakano
Yukimi Nakano
Senior Lecturer in Japanese
781-736-2069 Mandel 117
Office Hours: T 1:30 - 2:30 pm & Th 2:00 - 4:00 pm or By Appointment

Expertise: Japanese language, second language acquisition (English as a second language and Japanese as a foreign language), Japanese literature (17th-century Haikai and work of Matsuo Basho)

David Powelstock
David Powelstock
Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature
Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
781-736-3347 Shiffman Humanities Center 207

Expertise: Modern Russian literature, modern Czech literature, Russian and Czech languages, comparative literature, literary theory, translation studies

Harleen Singh
Harleen Singh
Associate Professor of Literature and Women's and Gender Studies
781-736-8485 Mandel 114
Valeriya Kozlovskaya
Valeriya Kozlovskaya
Lecturer in Russian
Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
Mayumi Tamaki
Mayumi Tamaki
Lecturer in Japanese
781-736-5240 Mandel Pod 126
Sabine von Mering
Sabine von Mering
Professor of German, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Director of the Center for German and European Studies
781-736-3227 Shiffman Humanities Center 209
Office Hours: M 4:00 - 6:00 pm & F 11:00 - 12:00 pm or By Appointment

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Pu Wang
Pu Wang
Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture
Co-Director of the Master of Arts Program in Teaching Chinese (Culture Track)
781-736-3287 Mandel 118
Office Hours: Th 9:30 - 12:00 pm or By Appointment
Jian Wei
Jian Wei
Lecturer in Chinese
781-736-3286 Shiffman 111
Office Hours: M/T/Th 12:20 - 1:10 pm or By Appointment
Xiwen Lu
Xiwen Lu
Senior Lecturer in Chinese
Director of the Chinese Language Program, Undergraduate Advising Head and Study Abroad Liaison, Co-Director of the Master of Arts Program in Teaching Chinese (Language Track)
781-736-2961 Mandel 119
Office Hours: M/W/Th 12:10 - 1:10 pm or By Appointment

Emeritus

Yu Feng
Yu Feng
Professor Emeritus of Master's of Arts Program in Teaching Chinese and the Chinese Language Program