German and Russian Studies Faculty

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Sidney Dement

Chair; Associate Professor

German and Russian Studies
LT 1414

Research Interests

  • Alexander Pushkin
  • Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Moscow-Tartu Semiotics
  • Intellectual and Cultural History
  • Slavic Folklore
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Carl A Gelderloos

Associate Professor of German; Director of Undergraduate Studies for German; TRIP Courtesy Title

German and Russian Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
LT 1408A

Research Interests

  • 20th-century German literature and culture
  • Weimar modernism and the avant-garde
  • the photography of New Objectivity
  • Alfred D枚blin
  • Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School
  • Philosophical anthropology
  • Science fiction
  • Marx and Marxism
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Donald J. Loewen

Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Enrollment Management; Associate Professor

Enrollment Management; Academic Affairs, Office of the Executive VP and Provost; German and Russian Studies
AM 130

Research Interests

  • Russian Language
  • Literature and Cultural History
  • Russian/Soviet Memory Cultures
  • Legacy of Soviet-era Monuments in Post-Soviet Space(s)
  • Poetry and Performance in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
  • Autobiographies of the Great Russian Poets
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Neil Christian Pages

Associate Professor; Graduate Director; Associate Professor

Comparative Literature; German and Russian Studies
LT 1408

Research Interests

  • Germanophone and Scandinavian Languages and Literatures
  • European Cultural History, Commemorative Practices
  • Translation
  • Comparative Modernisms
  • Text and Image, the Habsburg Empire
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Rebecca Sch盲fer

Lecturer

German and Russian Studies
LT 1405

Research Interests

  • Film and media studies
  • Gender, queer and sexuality studies
  • Psychological humanities, medical humanities
  • Practices of antiproductivity, especially through 鈥渦nproductive鈥 temporal states and concepts (boredom, bad timing, slowness, melancholia, nostalgia and grief)
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Lieselotte Sippel

Assistant Professor of German; Head of German Language Instruction

German and Russian Studies
LT 1402

Research Interests

  • Second language acquisition
  • Corrective feedback
  • Peer interaction
  • Pronunciation instruction
  • Telecollaboration
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Alexander Sorenson

Lecturer

Comparative Literature; German and Russian Studies
LT

Research Interests

  • German literature and thought ca. 1800-1917
  • Literary, philosophical and artistic accounts of the relation between human communities and the natural world (ecocriticism, nature writing, eco-phenomenology, posthumanism, etc.)
  • Modern European intellectual and cultural history
  • Convergences between the natural and human sciences
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Marina Zalesski

Lecturer

German and Russian Studies
LT 1407

Research Interests

  • Russian Language and Culture
  • The "Silver Age" in Russian Literature
  • Russian Religious Philosophy
  • Religion and Soviet Ideology
  • Representations of Russian Identity in Literature and Film
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Harald Zils

Associate Professor

German and Russian Studies
LT 1409

Research Interests

  • Anthropological Perspectives on Literature and Philosophy
  • Technology in Teaching
  • Aesthetic Theories of Production and Reception
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