University Bulletin (2025-2026)

• Asian American Pacific Islander Studies
• Chinese
• East Asian Studies (major/minor)
• European Cultural Studies (major)
• German Studies (major/minor)
• Japanese
• Korean
• Russian Studies (major/minor)
• South Asian Studies (minor)

Robin Feuer Miller, Chair of the Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Nineteenth-century Russian literature and comparative literature. The novel. Reader-response criticism.

Chunzi Chai
Chinese language. Teaching advanced level Chinese. Computer-based teaching methodology. Task-based and topic-oriented teaching pedagogy. Content-based course design. Business Chinese and culture.

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, Professor Emeritus of Chinese
Instruction of modern Chinese as a foreign language. Chinese pedagogy. Classical Chinese language. Traditional Chinese and oriental philosophy (Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism). Comparative ideas, and Chinese cultural heritage as a whole.

Matthew Fraleigh, Chair and Undergraduate Advising Head of the Comparative Literature and Culture Program and Co-chair and Undergraduate Advising Head of the Program in East Asian Studies
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
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.

Eun-Jo Lee
Korean language.

Xiwen Lu, Director and Undergraduate Advising Head for the Chinese Language Program, Director of the Master of Arts in Chinese Language and Culture Program (Language Track)
Teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Language teaching online, learning sciences and technology, and second language acquisition.

Yukimi Nakano
Japanese Language. Second language acquisition (English as a second language and Japanese as a foreign language). Japanese literature (seventeenth-century Haikai and work of Matsuo Basho).

David Powelstock, Undergraduate Advising Head for Russian Studies 
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature. Romanticism. Modernism. Czech literature. Poetry. Translation. Literary theory.

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

Sabine von Mering, Director of the Center for German and European Studies
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature. German women writers. Feminist theory. Language pedagogy. Drama.

Pu Wang, Director of the Master of Arts in Chinese Language and Culture Program (Culture Track)
Modern Chinese literature and culture in comparative frameworks. Critical theory and translation studies. Cultural Marxism. Aesthetic modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Intellectual history of China. Comparative poetics.

Jian Wei
Chinese language. Computer-based teaching method. Teaching Chinese at beginning level and advanced level. Advanced conversational Chinese.

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)