Full-time Faculty
Adelheid O'Brien
Adelheid O'Brien
Lecturer
emailaob25r@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5457
location_onBuchanan Tower 908
Regional Research Area
German StudiesAdelheid O’Brien is a 12-month lecturer in the department. She teaches in the German Language Program and is the coordinator of the German Reading Program. Her areas of specialization include second language acquisition and pedagogy, intercultural language learning and teaching, reading comprehens...Read more
Regional Research Area
German Studies
Ann-Kathrine Havemose
Ann-Kathrine Havemose
Danish Lecturer
location_onBuchanan Tower 905
Regional Research Area
Nordic StudiesAnn-Kathrine Havemose is the lecturer of Danish and Scandinavian studies. She is a native Danish speaker, and has an MA in comparative literature and general linguistics from Aarhus University, Denmark, while also having studied Celtic Civilization and Irish folklore at University College Cork, Irel...Read more
Regional Research Area
Nordic Studies
Biz Nijdam
Biz Nijdam
Lecturer
emailbiz.nijdam@ubc.ca
phone604 827 6394
location_onBuchanan Tower 905
Regional Research Area
German StudiesElizabeth "Biz" Nijdam is a lecturer in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She is also a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, working on her book manuscript Graphic Historiography: East Ger...Read more
Regional Research Area
German StudiesThematic Research Area
Comics Studies | Cultural Studies | Decolonial Approaches | Intercultural Communication | Language and Literacy Studies | Literature Studies | Media Studies | Migration Studies
Daniela Hempen
Daniela Hempen
Lecturer
emailhempen@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5133
location_onBuchanan Tower 904
Regional Research Area
German StudiesDaniela Hempen received an M.A. in German and Scandinavian languages and literatures from Eberhard-Karls Universität in Tübingen, Germany, in 1991. In September of that same year, Daniela relocated to Vancouver, Canada, to pursue doctoral studies in the Department of Germanic Studies at the Univer...Read more
Regional Research Area
German StudiesThematic Research Area
Intercultural Communication | Language and Literacy Studies | Literature Studies
Dariya Prykhodko
Dariya Prykhodko
Lecturer of Russian
emaildariyap@mail.ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan Tower 902
Regional Research Area
Slavic StudiesDariya (Dasha) Prykhodko has been with CENES since 2005, and teaches Russian language, culture and literature courses.
Dasha has Masters degrees in Russian Language and Literature (LSU, Ukraine) and Liberal Studies (SFU, Canada). Her current PhD project’s interests include the symbolic role ...Read more
Regional Research Area
Slavic Studies
Florian Faller
Florian Faller
Lecturer
emailfalf@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 6329
location_onBuchanan Tower 928
Regional Research Area
German StudiesFlorian has been studying languages (French, English, Latin, Classical Greek, Italian, Swedish, in that order) for most of his life, and has native proficiency in German.
Since beginning teaching German as a Foreign Language in 1998, he has taught at six different institutions in Italy and Cana...Read more
Regional Research Area
German Studies
Florian Gassner
Florian Gassner
Associate Professor of Teaching
phone604 822 5165
location_onBuchanan Tower 918
Regional Research Area
German StudiesFlorian is a Fellow of the New Europe College in Bucharest and he has represented the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Donetsk National University. He has also taught at Mount Allison University, and he joined the University of Kassel as a guest professor in 2016/17. His areas of speci...Read more
Regional Research Area
German StudiesThematic Research Area
Literature Studies
Jason Lieblang
Jason Lieblang
Associate Professor of Teaching | Director of First-Year and Interdisciplinary Programs for Arts
phone604 822 5154
location_onBuchanan Tower 906
Regional Research Area
German StudiesDr. Jason Lieblang holds a PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto and teaches across the German Studies undergraduate curriculum in CENES. His interests include curriculum design; emerging technologies in foreign language learning; translation; teaching with and abo...Read more
Regional Research Area
German Studies
Lena Karlström
Lena Karlström
Lecturer | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Scandinavian
emaillenak@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5119
location_onBuchanan Tower 921
Regional Research Area
Nordic StudiesLena Karlström came to the department in 1993, leaving Stockholm where she combined teaching with freelance travel journalism. She teaches the Swedish language courses and Scandinavian literature courses, for example Scandinavian Crime Fiction (SCAN 336), Scandinavian Cinema (SCAN 337) and Scandina...Read more
Regional Research Area
Nordic StudiesThematic Research Area
Cultural Studies | Intercultural Communication | Language and Literacy Studies | Literature Studies | Theatre, Film and Performance Studies
Uma Kumar
Uma Kumar
Lecturer
emailuma.kumar@ubc.ca
phone604 822 6329
location_onBuchanan Tower 928
Regional Research Area
German StudiesUma Kumar moved to Vancouver from India in 2003 and has been teaching with CENES since 2007. She holds a PhD in German Studies, a Master's in German Studies and a Master's in English Literature from the University of Bombay, India. Uma spent six years at the University of Vienna, doing research on A...Read more
Regional Research Area
German StudiesThematic Research Area
Cultural Studies | Decolonial Approaches | Holocaust Studies | Intercultural Communication | Language and Literacy Studies
Veta Chitnev
Veta Chitnev
Lecturer of Russian | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Russian
emailvchitnev@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 827 5541
location_onBuchanan Tower 903
Regional Research Area
Slavic Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Russian | Global Seminar Director
Originally from Moscow, Veta Chitnev has been teaching with CENES since 2008.
She teaches Russian language and culture courses and coordinates all sections of Russian language courses. Veta is also responsible for student...Read more
Regional Research Area
Slavic StudiesGraduate Faculty
Bożena Karwowska
Bożena Karwowska
Professor
emailbozena@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5956
location_onBuchanan Tower 920
Regional Research Area
Slavic StudiesRegional Research Area
Slavic StudiesThematic Research Area
Cultural Studies | Gender, Queer, and Intersectionality Studies | Holocaust Studies | Literature Studies | Theatre, Film and Performance Studies
Caroline Rieger
Caroline Rieger
Associate Professor
emailcarolin@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5156
location_onBuchanan Tower 923
Regional Research Area
German StudiesCuriosity might have killed the cat, but it made Caroline Rieger a researcher and teacher. Born and raised in Luxembourg – a trilingual country – Caroline was curious about anything and everything related to languages from a very early age. This inquisitive fascination was a fruitful companion t...Read more
Regional Research Area
German StudiesThematic Research Area
Applied Linguistics | Cultural Studies | Intercultural Communication | Language and Literacy Studies | Translation and Reception Studies
David Gramling
David Gramling
Professor | Department Head
phone604 827 3546
location_onBuchanan Tower 917B
Regional Research Area
German StudiesDavid Gramling (he/they) is author of the following six books: The Invention of Multilingualism (Cambridge University Press, 2021), The Invention of Monolingualism (Bloomsbury 2016, American Association for Applied Linguistics Book Award, 2018), co-author of Palliative Care Conversations: Clinical a...Read more
Regional Research Area
German Studies
Ervin Malakaj
Ervin Malakaj
Assistant Professor | Director of Undergraduate Studies, German
emailervin.malakaj@ubc.ca
location_onBuchanan Tower 927
Regional Research Area
German StudiesDr. Malakaj specializes in late-18th- to 21st-century German media and cultural history. His research focuses on 19th-century literary cultures, film history, narrative theory, queer theory, critical pedagogy, and humanities as well as language study advocacy.
Dr. Malakaj is currently writing a b...Read more
Regional Research Area
German Studies
Gaby Pailer
Gaby Pailer
Professor
emailpailer@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 4042
location_onBuchanan Tower 907
Regional Research Area
German StudiesGaby Pailer joined UBC as Associate Professor of German Literature in 2001 leaving a grant-tenure position of Assistant Professor equivalent at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany. She was promoted to Professor in 2010, served as Head of the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern Europea...Read more
Regional Research Area
German Studies
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
Professor
emailwinthrop@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5155
location_onBuchanan Tower 919
After graduating from UBC in 1991, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young taught at the Universities of Manitoba and Waterloo before returning to UBC in 1995, where he teaches in the German and Scandinavian sections of CENES. His initial area of research was the 18th century, but he is now primarily interested in ...Read more
Thematic Research Area
Critical Ecology | Cultural Studies | Language and Literacy Studies | Literature Studies | Media Studies | Science and Technology Studies
Ilinca Iuraşcu
Ilinca Iuraşcu
Associate Professor | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Modern European Studies
emailiurascu@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 6489
location_onBuchanan Tower 926
Regional Research Area
German StudiesAffiliated Faculty, Bachelor of Media Studies
Ilinca Iuraşcu holds graduate degrees in Gender Studies from the Central European University and Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. After completing her PhD at UPenn, she joined the Graduiertenkolleg Mediale Historiographien ...Read more
Regional Research Area
German StudiesThematic Research Area
Cultural Studies | Language and Literacy Studies | Literature Studies | Media Studies | Science and Technology Studies | Theatre, Film and Performance Studies
Katherine Bowers
Katherine Bowers
Associate Professor | Director, Centre for European Studies
phone604 822 6431
location_onBuchanan Tower 924
Regional Research Area
Slavic StudiesKatherine Bowers is an expert in Russian literature and culture. Her research interests include genre, narrative, environmental humanities, imagined geography, and digital humanities. At UBC Dr Bowers directs the Centre for European Studies and is the lead and founder of the Eurasia Research Clust...Read more
Regional Research Area
Slavic StudiesThematic Research Area
Critical Ecology | Cultural Studies | Digital Humanities | Environmental Humanities | Literature Studies | Media Studies | Science and Technology Studies
Kyle Frackman
Kyle Frackman
Associate Professor | Director of Graduate Studies
emailkyle.frackman@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5118
location_onBuchanan Tower 925
Before joining the faculty at UBC in July 2012, Dr. Kyle Frackman (he/him) taught at institutions in the United States: the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Smith College, and Amherst College.
Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Dr. Frackman attended Hamline University, graduating with a major...Read more
Markus Hallensleben
Markus Hallensleben
Associate Professor
emailmhallen@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5140
location_onBuchanan Tower 922
Regional Research Area
German StudiesExecutive Committee Member, UBC Centre for Migration Studies | Affiliated Faculty, Institute for European Studies | Associate Faculty, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice
I am a permanent resident of Canada and an uninvited visitor to the traditional territory and unceded ...Read more
Regional Research Area
German StudiesThematic Research Area
Cultural Studies | Decolonial Approaches | Intercultural Communication | Literature Studies | Migration Studies | Theatre, Film and Performance Studies
Rosemarie Peña
Dr. Rosemarie Peña is the founder and president of the Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA). In this role, she has co-produced and hosted four international academic conferences on Black German studies. A fifth conference planned for April 2020 at Rutgers-Camden was postponed due ...Read more
Regional Research Area
German StudiesThematic Research Area
Intercultural Communication | Migration Studies | Race and Intersectionality Studies
Tim Frandy
Tim Frandy
Assistant Professor of Nordic Studies
emailtim.frandy@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2169
location_onBuchanan Tower 901
Regional Research Area
Nordic StudiesTim Frandy is a Sámi- and Finnish-American born and raised on Anishinaabe Aki in northernmost Wisconsin on the south shore of Gitchi-Gami, Lake Superior, amidst the region's thousands of lakes and deep forests of pine, birch, maple, and balsam. Growing up in close relation with the woods and waters...Read more
Regional Research Area
Nordic StudiesThematic Research Area
Critical Ecology | Cultural Studies | Decolonial Approaches | Digital Humanities | Gender, Queer, and Intersectionality Studies | Migration StudiesSessional Lecturers
Ania Switzer
Ania Switzer was born in Upper Silesia, at that time in communist Poland. She received education at universities in Poland and United Kingdom. Ania worked at Jagiellonian University in Poland, Leo Baeck Institute London, UK, and the Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education at the ...Read more
Regional Research Area
Slavic Studies
Dorothee Leesing
Dorothee Leesing is a Sessional Lecturer at CENES.
Regional Research Area
German Studies
Helena Kudzia
Helena Kudzia
Sessional Lecturer
emailhkudzia@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 827 6341
location_onBuchanan Tower 1001
Regional Research Area
Slavic StudiesHelena Kudzia teaches Polish language courses in the CENES Department, specializing in teaching Polish as a second language in an intercultural setting. She is currently researching sociology of nature and the history of primeval forests.
Regional Research Area
Slavic Studies
Igor Maslennikov
Igor Maslennikov
Sessional Lecturer (CS)
emailigmas123@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 5457
location_onBuchanan Tower 908
Regional Research Area
German StudiesIgor Maslennikov studied at the Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus and at the Karl-Marx University in Leipzig, Germany. He also completed an internship program of the Carl Duisberg Society in Cologne, Germany.
Since 2006 Igor has been an instructor within CENES and with UBC Continuing Stu...Read more
Regional Research Area
German Studies
Liudmila Rodova
Regional Research Area
Slavic StudiesThematic Research Area
Language and Literacy Studies
Sara Pashan
Sara Pashan
Sessional Lecturer (CS)
emailsara.pashan@ubc.ca
phone604 827 6341
location_onBuchanan Tower 1001
Regional Research Area
German StudiesSara Pashan has studied German and Psychology at the University of British Columbia and did a semester abroad at the Freie Universität Berlin during her time as a Graduate Student here in CENES. Sara is also a certified English language instructor and completed her CELTA (Certificate in Teaching En...Read more
Regional Research Area
German StudiesThematic Research Area
Cultural Studies | Intercultural Communication | Language and Literacy Studies | Literature Studies | Migration Studies | Theatre, Film and Performance Studies