Department Chair
David S. Danaher
Credentials: Slavic
Position title: Department Chair, Professor
Email:
dsdanaher
Address:
Office number: 832 Van Hise Hall
David S. Danaher has taught the Czech language sequence and also courses on East Central European literature and culture as well as on Leo Tolstoy and the structure of contemporary Russian (a required course for graduates students in Slavic’s PhD program). Other research and teaching interests include cognitive linguistics, ethnolinguistics (the relationship between language and culture), and science fiction.
Faculty
B. Marcus Cederström
Credentials: Nordic
Position title: Teaching Faculty III, Community Curator of Nordic American Folklore
Thomas A. DuBois
Credentials: Nordic
Position title: Professor, Folklore Unit Head, Director of Graduate Studies
Kirill Ospovat
Credentials: Slavic
Position title: Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies (Slavic)
Jeanne Schueller
Credentials: German
Position title: Teaching Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, German Language Program Director
Anna Tumarkin
Credentials: Slavic
Position title: Teaching Professor, Russian Language Program Director
Sunny Yudkoff
Credentials: German and Jewish Studies
Position title: Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, Director of Graduate Studies (German)