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Matt Pollard, a man with grey hair and a beard.

Associate Teaching Professor

Germanic and Slavic Studies, SLLC

Contact:
Office: CLE D257
Credentials:
PhD (McGill)
Area of expertise:
Germanic Studies, Language Teaching, Film, Visual Arts

Bio

Matt Pollard has the privilege of working in the place he grew up, after his studies at Queen’s and McGill and stays in Trier and Dillingen (Saar). He began his teaching career at UVic as a sessional in 1997 before becoming an Assistant Teaching Professor (2004) and then Associate Teaching Professor (2019). He works extensively in program and course development and takes any opportunity to visit Berlin, his favourite city, to take teacher training seminars and to visit all the museums and galleries he can.

His main teaching areas include German film (Leni Riefenstahl, Fritz Lang), first-year language courses, German Expressionism, Franz Kafka, and Nietzsche reception. As a perpetually emerging abstract painter, he is very interested in building connections between visual languages (film, drawing and painting) and literary expression. He is looking forward to teaching a Cultural History of Vampires (ENSH 342V / GMST 454) for the first time in 2026!