Meet Our Faculty

Ruth von Bernuth

Seymour & Carol Levin Distinguished Term Professor; Director of Carolina Center for Jewish Studies

rvb@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Medieval and Early Modern German Literature, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
437 Dey Hall

Natalia Chernysheva

chernysn@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language Pedagogy, 19th-century Russian literature, Sensory and Haptic Studies, Czech literature
430 Dey Hall

Irene Delić

Research Professor of Russian Literature, Russian Language and Conversation Tutor

delic@live.unc.edu
Ph.D. Filosofie doktor, Stockholm University
321 Dey Hall

Eric Downing

Gerhard L. Weinberg Distinguished Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature; Adjunct Professor of Classics; Department Chair

edowning@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley
18th to 20th Century Narrative Fiction; Literary Theory; Realism, Aestheticism, Modernism; Ancient-modern Relations
436 Dey Hall

Adnan Džumhur

Teaching Assistant Professor of Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian; Associate Director of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies

dzumhur@email.unc.edu
M.A. in Russian and East European Studies, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3109 FedEx Global Education Center

Clayton Koelb

Guy B. Johnson Distinguished Professor of German; Professor of English and Comparative Literature

ckoelb@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Modern Literature (Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka), Literary Theory, History of Criticism, Philosophy and Aesthetics.
312A Dey Hall

Patrick Lang

Teaching Assistant Professor of German

pslang@live.unc.edu
Ph.D. German Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Duke University
428 Dey Hall

Richard Langston

Professor of German

relangst@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis
Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, Modernism & Avant-Garde Studies, Critical Theory, Film & Media Studies
442 Dey Hall

Radislav Lapushin

Associate Professor of Russian Literature

lapushin@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
Chekhov, Poetry of Russian Prose (19th century to the present), Russian Literature on Stage and Screen, Soviet poetry
422 Dey Hall

Priscilla Layne

Associate Professor of German; Adjunct Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies

playne@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. German Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature, Film and Music, (Post)Subculture Studies, Multiculturalism, Afro-German History and Culture, and Gender Studies
424 Dey Hall

Eleonora Magomedova

Teaching Associate Professor in Russian Language and Conversation

emagomed@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
416 Dey Hall

Hana Pichova

Professor of Czech Language and Literature; Advisor for Slavic; Director of Undergraduate Studies

pichova@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
20th-Century Czech and Russian Prose
418 Dey Hall

David Pike

Professor of German

dpike@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Germanic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University
20th Century Literature, East German and Soviet Culture and Politics
434 Dey Hall

Inga Pollmann

Associate Professor of German; Adjunct Faculty, Comparative Literature; Director of Graduate Studies

ipoll@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
Film and Media Theory and History, Early Cinema, German Cinema, Film and Science, Aesthetic and Critical Theory
420 Dey Hall

Aleksandra Prica

Assistant Professor of German Literature

aprica@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Medieval German Literature, Universität Zürich
Medieval and Early Modern German Literature and Culture, Media Studies, Literature and the Bible; Literature and Knowledge, Poetology and Hermeneutics, Historical Processes, Aesthetics of Form
432 Dey Hall

Paul Roberge

Professor of Germanic Languages, Joint Professor of Linguistics, Chair, Department of Linguistics

ptr@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Michigan
Historical Linguistics, Older Germanic Dialects (esp. Gothic, Old High German, Old Saxon, Old Norse), Comparative Germanic Grammar, Afrikaans, Pidgins and Creoles, Sociolinguistics, Origin and Evolution of Human Language, South African literature
441 Dey Hall and 109 Smith Building
919-962-1192

Joseph Rockelmann

Teaching Assistant Professor of German

rockelma@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. German Studies, Purdue University
German Romanticism and Ludwig Tieck, Ekphrasis Studies, Visual studies and cognition, and Psychopathology in 18th and 19th century German Literature

Eliza Rose

Assistant Professor and Laszlo Birinyi Sr., Fellow in Central European Studies

elizacr@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Slavic Languages, Columbia University
20th-Century Polish, East-Central European Literature and Visual Culture, Science Fiction, Science and Technology Studies, Film and Media Studies
421 Dey Hall

Stanislav Shvabrin

Associate Professor of Russian, Russian Program Director

shvabrin@unc.edu
Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles
Comparative Literary Studies, Literature and Culture of Russian Diasporas, Soviet “Internal Emigration”, Poetry and Poetics, Intertextuality, Translation Studies, Poetics and Politics of National Memory
312 Dey Hall

Dan Thornton

Adjunct Associate Professor of Dutch

thor@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. Germanic Languages and Literatures, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dutch Language and Literature; Netherlandic Society and Culture, Postwar German and Austrian Literature, Expressionism, Neue Sachlichkeit, Holocaust Studies, Jewish Literature in the Diaspora
211 Pettigrew Hall

Gabriel Trop

Associate Professor of German

gtrop@email.unc.edu
Ph.D. German and Medieval Studies, University of California at Berkeley
18th-Century Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Romanticism, Philosophy and Aesthetics
439 Dey Hall

Christina M. Weiler

Teaching Assistant Professor, Language Program Director

cweiler@unc.edu
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Purdue University
18th- and 19th-Century Studies, Romanticism, Metaphor Studies, Environmental Studies
CB# 3160, Dey Hall 414