(Lecturer, Director of German Language Program, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1989) | This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Originally from Lübeck, Germany, Cornelia Becher attended the universities of Tübingen, Germany, and Lyon, France, before earning a Staatsexamen in German and French Literatures and Languages from the Free University Berlin.

(Professor and Chair, Ph.D. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 1988, Affiliated Professor of Religious Studies) | This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Weber's research interests and publications include the following: French philosophy and theory; psychoanalysis and trauma-studies; German Judaism of the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries; nineteenth- and twentieth century German literature.

Professor Derwin earned her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1988. She researches in the fields of Holocaust studies, humanities and human rights, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative. She is also an affiliate of the Comparative Literature Program.

Dorothy Chun's areas of research involve second language acquisition, intonation (the melody and rhythm of language), computer-mediated communication for language learning, and learning and teaching with digital media.

Jocelyn Holland's research interests include Goethe and Romanticism, the instrument (or tool), and the philosophy of nature, with an emphasis on intersections between literature and the life sciences.

Wolf Kittler's research interests are interdisciplinary. They include Western literature from Greek antiquity to the present, philosophy, art history, history of science, media technology and critical theory.

(Lecturer, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) | This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

I am interested in the culture of Russia and Eastern Europe, particularly the languages, literatures and folkloric traditions, and its representation in the West. The culture is rich and varied. Why has it frequently been portrayed in the West as impoverished and monolithic?

Larry McLellan's specialty is the learning and teaching of Russian, as well as Slavic linguistics, syntax, discourse, and language pedagogy. His current interests are focused on profiles of Russian heritage learners; integration of heritage and non-heritage students in mixed classrooms; and differentiated instruction.

The genealogy of media (of both occult mediums and media technologies), Freud, psychoanalytic theories, and the overlaps (for example in Frankfurt school thought as in deconstruction) between psychoanalysis and various other critical discourses.

Spieker specializes in European modernism, with an emphasis on the Eastern European avant-gardes, postwar and contemporary literature and art (especially in Eastern and Central Europe), and critical theory.

Hebrew linguistics, syntax, discourse, language pedagogy. Modern Israeli literature.