Education:
Ph.D., University of Leipzig, Germany
Expertise:
Russian cinema, literature, and culture
Background:
Peter Rollberg, Associate Professor, earned his Ph.D. in 1988, at the University of Leipzig, Germany, after studying in Leipzig and Moscow. He came to GWU in 1991 after teaching at Duke University.
His main field of interest is Russian literature and film. His publications include articles on Bulgakov, Nabokov, Grossman, Makanin, Kim, and Belov, as well as translations of Russian literature into German and English. He has edited contemporary Russian short stories (White Mourning, 1989) and the works of Bogdanov (Red Star, 1989). He was the editor of The Modern Encyclopedia of East Slavic, Baltic, and Central Asian Literatures (Academic International Press, Gulf Breeze, Florida), Volume 10 of which appeared in December 1996. In 1998, he published a Festschrift in honor of Charles Moser, And Meaning for a Life Entire (Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica).
Professor Rollberg was awarded the Bender Teaching Prize in 1999 and the Trachtenberg Teaching Prize in 2001. He has served as Chair of the Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures, as well as Chair of the Honors Department.
Courses Taught:
Slav 91 Intro. to Russian Literature (1800-1860s)
Slav 92 Intro. to Russian Literature
Slav 162 Russian Culture since 1825
Slav 185 Introduction to Russian Cinema
Slav 186 Introduction to Russian Cinema
Last update: 10/31/2007
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