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.

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.

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.

Sara Pankenier Weld earned her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures and a Ph.D. Minor in Comparative Literature at Stanford University in 2006. Her research interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature, comparative literature, and Scandinavian literature; avant-garde literature, art, and theory; literatures of the north; word and image; childhood, children’s literature, and picturebooks.

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.

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Elisabeth Weber received her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 1988. She teaches German and Comparative literature and is an affiliate professor of Religious Studies.

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