He teaches Russian, German, Czech, and comparative literature, and directs the interdepartmental Russian Area Studies Program. Dr. Brom is a native of Czechoslovakia, where he received degrees in economics and law, started a career in business, and was an executive with several state-run Czech industries before emigrating to the United States in 1958. In this country, Dr. Brom was drawn into high school language teaching after a chance encounter with some American teenagers left him shocked at their indifference toward world culture and the East-West struggle. During the 1960s he earned his master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Colorado and joined the University of Denver faculty in 1967.