Professor David Frick is Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Also affiliated with the Department of History, his teaching interests include Polish literature of all periods and the histories of Poland and Eastern Europe. Professor Frick's body of research addresses questions of rhetoric, philology, religion, culture, and society in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the early modern period; he is currently studying the neighborhoods and networks of seventeenth-century Vilnius. Among his publications are Rus' Restored: Selected Writings of Meletij Smotryc'kyj (1610-1630) and "The Bells of Vilnius: Keeping Time in a City of Many Calendars," from Making Contact: Maps, Identity, and Travel (2003).