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Dr. Thomason's research explores prepositional semantics in IE languages, Historical Slavic linguistics, and teaching Russian language and culture to heritage and non-heritage learners. Her recent work focuses on Russian language pedagogy, computer-assisted and project-based language learning.  Dr. Thomason is the Associate Director of the Russian Flagship Program at UGA. She created and directs the UGA field study summer program "Russian…


Olga A. Thomason

Sasha Spektor's research interests include Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Russian prose and poetry; Dostoevsky; Russian contemporary poetry; Literary theory; Ethics in literature; Polish Modernism; Formation of literary identity; Russian and Soviet cinema, and translation. His publications include articles on Osip Mandelstam, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Witold Gombrowicz, relationship between science and literature, and narrative ethics.  At…


Sasha Spektor

Alexander Sager specializes in medieval German language, literature, and culture, as well as German literature around 1900.


Alexander Sager

Brigitte Rossbacher teaches language, literature and culture courses at all levels. Dr. Rossbacher's research is in contemporary German literature, GDR studies, and language pedagogy. She is particularly interested in representations of memory, history and narrative in postwar and post-unification autobiographical family stories, film, and graphic novels. Her publications include Illusions of Progress: Christa Wolf and the Critique of Science in…


Brigitte Rossbacher

Vera Lee-Schoenfeld is Associate Professor of Linguistics and primarily a theoretical linguist with a research focus on German syntax. Her early work on constructions involving possessor datives and binding (the distribution of reflexive and non-reflexive pronouns) in sentences with embedded infinitive clauses and other clause-like phrases was published in her book Beyond Coherence: The Syntax of Opacity in German (2007). Covering more…


Vera Lee-Schoenfeld

Research and teaching interests include the origins of the vampire in German literature, the development of German Gothic horror literature since the 18th century and its connection with central European cultural history, the occult in literature, the German folklore and fairy tale tradition, trends in European and American Gothic horror literature and film, the relationship between science and literature (especially Gothic Horror literature),…


Heide Crawford

Areas of interest: Russian Language Teaching, Russian Cultural Studies, Russian Cinema, French-Russian Literary Relations, Mikhail Bulgakov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Nabokov.


Charles Byrd

Keith Langston is Professor of Slavic Studies and Linguistics. He received his Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics from Yale University, where he also taught for three years as a lecturer. Since 1995 he has been a member of the faculty of Germanic & Slavic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Georgia. His research interests include Slavic prosody and the phonology/morphology interface; historical Slavic linguistics and…


Keith Langston


Joshua Bousquette

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