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Department of Slavic, German, and Eurasian Studies
Main Office Phone:
785-864-9250
Wescoe Hall , Room 2080
1445 Jayhawk Blvd
Lawrence , Kansas 66045

Chair

Nina Vyatkina
Dr. Nina Vyatkina
  • Professor
  • Interim Chair, Slavic, German, and Eurasian Studies
  • German Language | Applied Linguistics | Instructed Second Language Acquisition | Corpus-based Language Teaching
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Director of Undergraduate Study

Ari Linden
Dr. Ari Linden
  • Associate Professor
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • German Jewish thought and literature | Marxism, the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory | 20th c. German and Austrian literary and visual culture | Literatures and philosophies of exile | Theories of comedy and satire
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Director of Graduate Study

Oleksandra Wallo
Dr. Oleksandra Wallo
  • Associate Professor
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • Director of the KU Summer Language Institute in Lviv, Ukraine
  • 20th- and 21st- c. Ukrainian Women’s Writing | Nationalism Studies | Women’s Studies | Post-Colonial Approaches in Post-Soviet Studies | Second Language Studies (Slavic Languages Pedagogy, Acquisition of The Ukrainian Case Systems, Processing Instruction
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