Courses of Study

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Sections

Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature

Last updated: August 28, 2009 at 11:15 a.m.

Faculty

Robin Feuer Miller, Chair
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Nineteenth-century Russian literature and comparative literature. The novel. Reader-response criticism.

Stephen Dowden, Chair, European Cultural Studies; Undergraduate Advising Head (German)
 German modernism. Romanticism. The Novel: Kafka, Bernhard, Thomas Mann, Broch, Musil, Goethe. Austrian literature.

Irina Dubinina, Language Coordinator (Russian)
 Bilingualism. Russian heritage speakers. Teaching language through culture/film/theater. Second-language acquisition in Russian. First-language attrition.

Yu Feng, Language Coordinator (Chinese)
 Chinese language.

Matthew Fraleigh
Classical and modern Japanese literature and language. Cultural and literary exchange between China and Japan. Literature and travel.

Christine Geffers Browne, Language Coordinator (German)
 Foreign language acquisition. German realism. Christianity and literature. German-Jewish identity.

David Powelstock, Undergraduate Advising Head (Russian); Chair, Russian and East European Studies
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature. Romanticism. Modernism. Czech literature. Poetry. Translation. Literary theory.

Hiroko Sekino, Language Coordinator (Japanese)
Japanese.

Harleen Singh
 South Asian studies. Comparative literature. Postcolonial theory and studies.

Sabine von Mering
 Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature. German women writers. Feminist theory. Language pedagogy. Drama.

Courses of Instruction