Victor Udwin - Faculty & Adjuncts

Victor Udwin, PhD

Victor Udwin, PhD
Director, School of Language and Literature
Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature
College of Arts & Sciences
Language and Literature
918-631-2414 Oliphant Hall Room 164

Education

PhD – University of California-Berkeley MA – University of California-Berkeley BA – University of California-Berkeley

Research Interests

Close reading, exploratory writing, literary translation, and cultural hermeneutics to reconstruct a lost culture from traces left in ancient epic poetry and to generate new insights into political and philosophical issues in Periclean Athens

Teaching Interests

Honors
German
Greek
Latin
“Gangster Films”

Courses Taught

  • Greek History, Philosophy and Drama
  • Independent Study
  • Intermediate German I
  • Special Topics
  • Intermediate German II
  • Genre
  • Gangster Films
  • Bronze Age Destructions and Homeric Aftermath
  • Individual Authors