Research

Dr. Helga Thorson is the recipient of the Faculty of Humanities Annual Teaching Excellence Award for 2012.

Short research profile of Dr. Helga Thorson, the recipient of the Faculty of Humanities Annual Teaching Excellence Award for 2012.

Research projects

• second language acquisition and pedagogy
• Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
• crime fiction
• diasporic, transnational and postcolonial literature
• e-learning
• feminist theory and gender studies
• film and cultural studies
• Goethe
• Holocaust
• hybrid identities in the cinemas of Eastern Europe
• Kleist
• modernist German and Austrian literature
• literary theory
• popular culture
• post-1945 Swiss German literature and film
• postmemory studies
• Romanticism
• Russian history, culture and literature
• Soviet illustrated children’s literature under Lenin and Stalin
• Soviet culture
• Stalinism
• translation studies
• Ukrainian language and culture studies
• Ukrainian literature in Canada
• vampire studies

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