People

Walker Horsfall

Lecturer in Medieval German and Scandinavian Studies

E-mail: horsfall@illinois.edu

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Theo Malekin

Theo Malekin

Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies

E-mail: malekin@illinois.edu

Teaching and Scholarship

Dr. Theo Malekin’s research interests include Scandinavian cinema, the plays of August Strindberg, Henrik Ibsen and other playwrights from the Modern Breakthrough, and Scandinavian children’s literature. He is also interested in the growing interdisciplinary engagement between consciousness studies and literature. He regularly teaches courses on Viking sagas and Viking mythology and has also taught a number of courses on more recent Scandinavian literature and on film. He has also developed a new course on children’s literature and youth culture.

Primary language: Swedish

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Charles Webster

Charles Robert Webster

Visiting Instructor

Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Germanic Department

E-mail: cwebste@illinois.edu

Teaching and Scholarship

Charles Webster is the director of the basic language program for German. His research interests and teaching includes Germanic linguistics, second language acquisition, and study abroad, the history of the Germanic languages, methods of language teaching.

Primary languages: German and Norwegian

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