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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.

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

History and culture of the Space Race; Russian language, online pedagogy and intercultural communicative competence; Russian literature: 20th-century, science fiction and women's prose; Contemplative neuroscience in education; performing arts (music, theater, dance) and performance studies; literary canon and national mythmaking.

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.

I am a scholar of Soviet and contemporary Russian culture. My research agenda consists of two main branches. The first is historical research into Soviet materialist aesthetics of the 1920s and 1930s that presented alternatives to Stalinist culture. The second is an investigation of the reception of this historical and theoretical legacy among practicing Eastern European writers and artists today, especially those who critically re-engage with the longue durée of...

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 Russian literature and Russian/Soviet cinema. Porter’s first book, Economies of Feeling: Russian Literature under...

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.

19th century German Romanticism, Political Romanticism, Romantic nationalism and populism. Romantic nihilism.

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.