Faculty

Ljudmila Bilkic
Dr. Ljudmila Bilkić
  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Coordinator, German Language Proficiency Sequence
  • German New Media and Cinema | Refugees and Migrants | Contemporary Globalization
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Marike Janzen
Dr. Marike Janzen
  • Associate Professor
  • 20th and 21st century German Literature | Literature of Human Rights | Literary Publics | Literature of the International Left
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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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Andrea Meyertholen
Dr. Andrea Meyertholen
  • Associate Professor
  • German and European visual culture and literature since 1700 | Intermedial encounters of literature and art | Representation and narrative in museums, monuments, and tourist spaces | Discourses of body, gender, and fashion from Romanticism
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Renee Perelmutter
Dr. RB Perelmutter
  • Professor
  • Director, Jewish Studies
  • Morphosyntax and Pragmatics of Slavic and Jewish Languages | Gendered Practices and Identities in Multiparticipant Discourse | Jewish Culture | General and Jewish Folklore
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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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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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Lecturers

Razi Ahmad
Dr. Razi Ahmad
  • Lecturer
  • Language Coordinator, Persian
  • Advisor, Peace and Conflict Studies Minor
  • Persian Language Acquisition | Iranian and Muslim Studies | Nationalism
Biljana Konatar
Biljana Konatar
  • Multi-Term Lecturer
  • Lanugage Coordinator, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian
  • Linguistic Anthropology | Sociolinguistics | Language Pedagogy | Heritage Language Learning | Syntax | Translation and Interpretation
Esra Predolac
Dr. Esra Predolac
  • Multi-Term Lecturer
  • Language Coordinator, Turkish
  • Assistant Director CREES
  • Syntax and its interfaces | Clausal complements | Nominalizations | Embedded root phenomena | Extraposition | Second Language Acquisition
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