Current Faculty
Meet Our Faculty
Jocelyn Aksin
Teaching Assistant Professor of German
Ph.D., Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis
jmaksin@unc.edu | 425 Dey Hall
Ruth von Bernuth
Professor of German
Ph.D. Medieval and Early Modern German Literature, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
rvb@email.unc.edu | 437 Dey Hall
Natalia Chernysheva
Teaching Associate Professor of Russian
Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
chernysn@email.unc.edu | 430 Dey Hall
Irene Delić
Research Professor of Russian Literature, Russian Language and Conversation Tutor
Ph.D. Filosofie doktor, Stockholm University
delic@live.unc.edu | 321 Dey Hall
Eric Downing
Gerhard L. Weinberg Distinguished Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature; Adjunct Professor of Classics
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley
edowning@email.unc.edu | 436 Dey Hall
Adnan Džumhur
Teaching Assistant Professor of Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian; Associate Director of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
M.A. in Russian and East European Studies, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
dzumhur@email.unc.edu | 3109 FedEx Global Education Center
Nicholas Jones
Teaching Assistant Professor of German
Ph.D. German Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University, 2023
nickjones@unc.edu | Dey 325
Elham Kamrani
Lecturer of Russian Language
Ph.D. ABD, Russian Linguistics, Belarusian State University
Richard Langston
Professor of German; Department Chair
Ph.D. Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis
relangst@email.unc.edu | 442 Dey Hall
Radislav Lapushin
Associate Professor of Russian Literature; Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
lapushin@email.unc.edu | 422 Dey Hall