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Department of Slavic Languages


Degree Programs: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. in Slavic Languages; Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A in Slavic Languages; Free-Standing M.A. in Slavic Cultures; Free-Standing M.A. in Russian Translation

Chair: Alan Timberlake, Ph.D.

Director of Graduate Studies: Irina Reyfman, Ph.D.
712 Hamilton Hall
Tel: 212.854.3941


Faculty

Robert Belknap:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia, 1960
Interests: Dostoevsky, literary theory, novelistic and dramatic plots
Anna Frajlich-Zajac:
Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., New York, 1991
Interests: Polish literature and language, the literature of exile
Boris Gasparov:
Bakhmeteff Professor, Ph.D., Moscow, 1965
Interests: Russian and general linguistics; literary theory; medieval Russian literature; Russian and European Romanticism; Russian culture of the 20th century; grammar and rhetoric of Old Church Slavonic; Russian music
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Radmila Gorup:
Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., Columbia, 1986
Interests: Theoretical linguistics; sociolinguistics; South Slavic cultures; Serbian language and literature
Richard Gustafson:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia, 1963
Interests: Tolstoy, Russian religious philosophy, 19th-century Russian poetry
William Harkins:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia, 1950
Interests: Czech literature and language; Russian folklore; Old Russian literature
Christopher Harwood:
Lecturer, Ph.D., Columbia, 2000
Interests: Czech language pedagogy; 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature; 19th- and 20th-century Czech literature
Valentina Izmirlieva:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1999
Interests: Slavic medieval literature; Christian Eastern Orthodox culture; theory of tropes; Vladimir Nabokov; Russian literature of the Silver Age; Balkan literature and film; history of Cyrillic manuscript and early printed books
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mara Kashper:
Senior Associate, Diploma, St. Petersburg, 1970
Interests: Russian language and culture; Russian theater; language pedagogy
Liza Knapp:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1985
Interests: 19th-century Russian literature; the novel in Russia and the West; Dostoevsky; Tolstoy; Russian poetry; Tsvetaeva
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Marina Ledkovsky:
Professor Emerita, Ph.D., Columbia, 1969
Interests: Turgenev; Khomiakov; Russian women writers
Ronald Meyer:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Indiana, 1986
Interests: Russian literary translation, 20th-century Russian literature; autobiography and memoir
Frank J. Miller:
Professor, Ph.D., Indiana, 1976
Interests: Russian language pedagogy, Russian folklore
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Catharine T. Nepomnyashchy:
Ann Whitney Olin Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1986
Interests: 20th- and 21st-century Russian literature and popular culture (including television and dance); Pushkin
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Cathy Popkin:
Jesse and George Siegel Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1985
Interests: 19th- and 20th- century Russian prose; literary theory; late 19th-century scientific discourses (psychiatry, ethnography, medicine); Chekhov
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Irina Reyfman:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1986
Interests: 18th- and 19th-century Russian literature; cultural history; semiotics of culture; Pushkin; Gogol; Leskov; Russian literary institutions and system of ranks; the status of the writer in Russia
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ivan Sanders:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D., New York, 1972
Interests: Central European cultural history; literary translation; postwar East European cinema; Hungarian literature
Yuri Shevchuk:
Lecturer, Ph.D., Kyiv State, 1987
Interests: Teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language, Ukrainian film history, Soviet and post-Soviet film
Tatiana Smoliarova:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Russian State University for the Humanities, La Sorbonne, 2000
Interests: Comparative literature, 18th- and 19th-century Russian literature and culture
Alla Smyslova:
Lecturer, M.Phil., Bryn Mawr, 1999
Interests: Second language acquisition; teaching Russian as a foreign language; teaching Russian to heritage speakers; Russian and Soviet cinema
Rebecca Stanton:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 2004
Interests: 20th-century Russian prose; autobiographical discourse and first-person narrative; poetics of place; popular and mass culture; Ukrainian language and culture; choral music
Alan Timberlake:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1973
Interests: Slavic and general linguistics; medieval Russian chronicles; Slavic cultures
Richard Wortman:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Chicago, 1964
Interests: Imperial Russian history; Russian intellectual and institutional history; political representation and ceremony




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