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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

Folk and popular culture. Gender studies.

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. Her first book, Economies of Feeling: Russian Literature under Nicholas I , is due for release by Northwestern University Press in...

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.

Ingo Schulze was born in 1962 in Dresden (East Germany), where he grew up. After high school and 18 months in the army, he studied Latin, ancient Greek, and German Literature in Jena. From 1988 to 1990, he worked as a dramaturg at the Landestheater in Altenburg. In 1990 he co-founded a weekly newspaper there which existed till 1999. He left the newspaper at the end of 1992 to go...

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.

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