University Bulletin (2016-2017)

David Powelstock, Chair of the Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature, Undergraduate Advising Head for Russian Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Master of Arts Program in Comparative Humanities
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature. Romanticism. Modernism. Czech literature. Poetry. Translation. Literary theory.

Stephen Dowden, Chair and Undergraduate Advising Head for the European Cultural Studies Program
German modernism. Romanticism. The Novel: Kafka, Bernhard, Thomas Mann, Broch, Musil, Goethe. Austrian literature.

Irina Dubinina, Director of the Russian Language Program
Bilingualism. Russian heritage speakers. Teaching language through culture/film/theater. Second-language acquisition in Russian. First-language attrition.

Yu Feng, Director of the Chinese Language Program and Director of Graduate Studies for the Master of Arts Program in Teaching Chinese
Chinese language.

Matthew Fraleigh, Chair of the Comparative Literature and Culture Program (on leave fall 2016)
Classical and modern Japanese literature and language. Cultural and literary exchange between China and Japan. Literature and travel.

Hisae Fujiwara, Director and Undergraduate Advising Head for the Japanese Language Program
Japanese.

Eun-Jo Lee
Lecturer in Korean.

Xiwen Lu (on leave fall 2016)
Lecturer in Chinese.

Robin Feuer Miller (on leave spring 2017)
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Nineteenth-century Russian literature and comparative literature. The novel. Reader-response criticism.

Yukimi Nakano
Lecturer in Japanese.

Kathrin Seidl, Undergraduate Advising Head for German Studies and Director of the German Language Program
German language and literature. German literature in its South American reception.

Harleen Singh (on leave spring 2017)
South Asian studies. Comparative literature. Postcolonial theory and studies.

Sabine von Mering (on leave spring 2017)
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature. German women writers. Feminist theory. Language pedagogy. Drama.

Pu Wang
Chinese.

Jian Wei
Lecturer in Chinese.

Curt Woolhiser
Lecturer in Russian.

Affiliated Faculty (contributing to the curriculum, advising and administration of the department or program)
ChaeRan Freeze (Near Eastern and Judaic Studies)
Gregory Freeze (History)
Eugene Sheppard (Near Eastern and Judaic Studies)
Govind Sreenivasan (History)
Aida Yuen Wong (Fine Arts)
Bernard Yack (Politics)