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Old Norse language. Norse sagas and mythology. Historical linguistics. History of the Scandinavian languages. Scandinavian dialectology.

19th & 20th C. German and French literature. History and theory of the avant-garde. Critical theory. Modern and contemporary art.

Vampiric tendencies of the Russian "superfluous man."

Second language acquisition. Literature, art, and creative writing in the language classroom. Contemporary Germany.

German Literature and Culture from the 18th century to the present; literary theory; history and theory of scientific cultures.

SLA, Interculturality, Technology and Teaching, German-Americana, Anabaptism and Pietism.

Experimental classrooms. Contemporary Russian issues.

20th and 21st-centuries Russian literature. Soviet and post-Soviet culture. Postmodernism.

Women's studies. Gender images in recent Russian culture. Cultural and gender paradoxes that occur in Russian media.

Literature, science, philosophy, and the history of philosophy and interpretation.

Pre-Christian Nordic mythologies, Scandinavian folklore, Nordic memory studies, myth and disaster studies, North Atlantic and Greenlandic literature, reception history of the Viking Age, Neo-paganism. Dr. Nordvig is currently writing the book ‘Myth and Environment in Early Iceland’ under contract with Arc Humanities Press.

Folk and popular culture. Gender studies.

German & French lit. and culture from the 19th c. to present; avant-garde; ideology and subject formation; media theory; theories of commodity consumption; ecocriticism.

Bio Jillian Porter holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College. Her research explores intersections between Russian economic history and cultural production from the late 18 th century to the present. At CU, she teaches courses on 19 th -century Russian literature and Russian/Soviet cinema. Porter’s first book, Economies of Feeling:...

History of American-Russian relations; history of sport and the cold war; interpersonal and intergenerational communication; lexicology, sociolinguistics and second language acquisition.

18th and 19th-century German and Norwegian literature and culture. Fairy tales and folklore. Lessing and the Enlightenment. Disability studies.

Lev Tolstoy; narratology; impersonal narrative genres; animals in philosophy, literature, television and film; environmental criticism; and science and mathematics in literature.

Literary criticism and theory, intellectual history, art theory, film studies, Kafka, Warburg.

Literature and culture from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries and their points of intersection with the German philosophical tradition since Kant.

Meghan Vicks holds a PhD and an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a BA in Literary Studies from Middlebury College. Her research focuses on the concept of nothing and its relationship to narrative in twentieth-century literature, as well as on the relationship between memory and literature in contemporary fiction. She has taught a variety of literature, culture, and language courses at CU, including courses...

Cultural studies; Comparative Literature; Race, gender, and migration; precarity and intimacy; post 1945 literature and film; Islam in Europe; feminisms.