People

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

The vampire in popular culture and literature; connections between Nordic and Russian cultures.

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, Holistic Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, German-Americana, Anabaptism and Pietism.

Russian language pedagogy; experimental classrooms.

Afro- and Black German cultural production, Germanic medieval literature and culture, beguine mysticism, queer theory of affect, aesthetics, and phenomenology, antiracist pedagogy, decolonization and/in German studies.

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.

Russian and Bulgarian folk and popular culture; ethnographic methods in humanities research; gender studies; memoir, diary, and personal story; folk music and dance revival; minority studies; nationalism.

Russian and Eastern European twentieth and twenty-first-century culture; Soviet theory and materialist aesthetics, their influence on Russian literature of the 1920s-1960s, and their afterlives in contemporary Eastern European political art and culture; Historical Poetics; prison writing; feminism; post-classical anarchism; history of Soviet pedagogical experiments.

Russian language and literature; contemporary Russian culture; post-Soviet documentary cinema and theater; film, media, and performance studies.

Russophone literature from the late 18th century to the present; Russian and Soviet cinema; Dostoevsky’s legacies in African American literature and world cinema; international socialist and feminist movements; LGBTQ studies; everyday life studies; and environmental humanities

Late Antiquity in Europe,transitions from Paganism to Christianity, Heroes in Epic Literature, Warfare in History and Literature, Historiography, Textiles and Experimental Archaeology

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.

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

critical race studies; gender and sexuality studies; immigrant and refugee art, film and literature