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Sara Bredengerd

Undergraduate and Graduate Program Coordinator
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Beata Gallaher

Teaching Assistant Professor
Russian Program
SLA, linguistic politeness in Russian, Polish, and German and cross-cultural communication, gender issues in language and culture, teaching culture through film, and foreign language teaching and pedagogy.
Patrick Greaney

Patrick Greaney

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

Fulbright Scholar
Nordic Program
Fredrik Gregorius is a visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar from Linkoping, Sweden. His PhD from 2009 in the history of religion was about the development of modern Heathenism in Sweden in the 21st century and how Old Norse religion was reinterpreted to address contemporary questions about identity and ethics. A major focus on his research has been on the reception of religion and history in the creation of identities. Between...
Vicki Grove

Vicki Grove

Teaching Professor of Distinction
Russian Program
The vampire in popular culture and literature; connections between Nordic and Russian cultures.
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Karen Hawley

Manager of Finance and Business Operations
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Saskia Hintz

Saskia Hintz

Teaching Professor of Distinction • German upper division language coordinator
German Program
Second language acquisition. Literature, art, and creative writing in the language classroom. Contemporary Germany.
Arne Hoecker

Arne Höcker

Associate Professor
German Program
German Literature and Culture from the 18th century to the present; literary theory; history and theory of scientific cultures.
Berit Jany

Berit Jany

Teaching Associate Professor • German lower division language coordinator • Undergraduate faculty advisor
German Program
SLA, Interculturality, Holistic Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, German-Americana, Anabaptism and Pietism.
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Christine Luft

Academic Advisor
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Asian Languages and Civilizations; Asian Studies; French & Italian; Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures Advisor
Adrienne Merritt

Adrienne Merritt

Assistant Professor • Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
German Program
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.
Helmut Muller-Sievers

Helmut Muller-Sievers

Professor
German Program
Literature, science, philosophy, and the history of philosophy and interpretation.
Galina Nicoll

Galina Nicoll

Teaching Assistant Professor
Russian Program
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.
Mathias Nordvig

Mathias Nordvig

Teaching Assistant Professor
Nordic Program
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.
Laura Osterman

Laura Olson Osterman (Laura J. Olson)

Professor • Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies • Undergraduate Faculty Advisor
Russian Program
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.
Anastasiya Osipova

Anastasiya Osipova

Assistant Professor
Russian Program
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.
Natalia Plagmann

Natalia Plagmann

Teaching Assistant Professor
Russian Program
Russian language and literature; contemporary Russian culture; post-Soviet documentary cinema and theater; film, media, and performance studies.
Avedan Raggio

Avedan Raggio

Teaching Assistant Professor
Nordic Program
Late Antiquity in Europe,transitions from Paganism to Christianity, Heroes in Epic Literature, Warfare in History and Literature, Historiography, Textiles and Experimental Archaeology
Artemi Romanov

Artemi Romanov

Professor • Director of Graduate Studies
Russian Program
History of American-Russian relations; history of sport and the cold war; interpersonal and intergenerational communication; lexicology, sociolinguistics and second language acquisition.
Ann Schmiesing

Ann Schmiesing

Professor • Vice Chancellor for Academic Resource Management
German Program
18th and 19th-century German and Norwegian literature and culture. Fairy tales and folklore. Lessing and the Enlightenment. Disability studies.
Nadia Schuman

Nadia Schuman

Visiting Assistant Professor
German Program
19th century German Romanticism, Political Romanticism, Romantic nationalism and populism. Romantic nihilism.
Lauren Stone

Lauren Stone

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

Beverly Weber

Professor • Chair • Faculty in Jewish Studies • Associate Faculty of Gender and Women's Studies • International Affairs Faculty Committee • Affiliate Faculty of Ethnic Studies and Film Studies
German Program
critical race studies; gender and sexuality studies; immigrant and refugee art, film and literature