Biography Language: German, Turkish, Hindi, Urdu Research/Language Interests: 19th to 21st Century German literature and culture; World literature; Translation; the Novel; Migrants and Refugees in German, European, and global contexts; Literature and Migration; Print- and digital cultural histories; Theories of cosmopolitanism, globalization, post-colonialism, and transnationalism. About: B. Venkat Mani is Professor of German and World Literatures, …
Biography Language(s): High Proficiency: Swedish Reading and Communication Skills: Danish, French, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish Reading Languages: Gothic, Latin, Middle English, Old English, Old High German, Old Norse Research/Language Interests: Scandinavian Studies, Folklore Studies, Medieval Studies, Medieval through 19th century literature. About Me: Scott Mellor is a Teaching Professor of Nordic Studies at the …
Biography Language(s): Swedish, German Research/Language Interests: Nordic cinema and modern Nordic literature; queer and transgender cinema; Black feminist theory; Swedish language and pedagogy. About: Benjamin Mier-Cruz is Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies. Their research interests are Nordic cinema and queer and transgender cinema with a focus on filmmakers of color. Benjamin’s …
Biography Language: German Research/Language Interests: Early Modern literature and culture, Emblem Studies, Visual Culture, Digital Humanities, Environmental History. About: Sabine Mödersheim is Associate Professor of German Literature and Culture in the German Department. She currently serves as the Director of the Center for Early Modern Studies. Education: Dr. phil. (German and Philosophy, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg); …
Biography Language(s): Russian, German Research/Language Interests: Literature and politics in Russia and Europe from the early modern period to the nineteenth century; literary theory; political theory. About Me: My research interests generally revolve around the interplay between literature, political theory, political theology, and intellectual history in early modern and imperial Russia in a pan-European (German, …
Biography Language: Russian Research/Language Interests: Lyric poetry. Translation. Osip Mandelstam; Pushkin; Joseph Brodsky; modern literary theory (especially theories of influence and intertextuality); modern Russian poetry; the elegy; modern Russian prose (especially the work of Venedikt Erofeev and Victor Erofeyev); Latin poetry; English and American poetry (especially 20th-century); the “ethical turn” in literary criticism. About Me: …
Biography Language(s): Swedish, Finnish, Estonian Research/Language Interests: Nordic and Baltic film, television, literary and cultural studies with a specific focus on migration, colonial histories, sexual politics, health and childhood studies, and critical theory. About: Liina-Ly Roos received her PhD from the University of Washington, and she taught at the University of Minnesota before joining the GNS+. …
Biography Language: German Research/Language Interests: Second language acquisition, foreign language pedagogy, authentic materials in L2 teaching and learning, in particular film, study abroad. About Me: I am an applied linguist who joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2010. Prior to that I taught at the University of Texas at Austin and …
Biography Area(s) of Focus: Linguistic anthropology, anthropology of migration, time and temporality, labor, bureaucracy, policy, Europe, Germany About Me: My research broadly explores the intersections of migration, language, policy, and time. Taking Germany as a core field site, I examine the ways in which state-sanctioned “integration” requirements impact newcomers’ socioeconomic (im)mobility. In so doing, my work …
Biography Language: German, Russian Research/Language Interests: 18th- to 21st-century German literature and culture; contemporary literature, Romanticism, GDR and Post-GDR literature, fairytales, feminist theory, queer theory, ecocriticism About: Melissa Sheedy joined the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ in August 2020. In addition to teaching classes on fairytales, Kafka, and German theater, she is also the …