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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


Dissertation Sponsors

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
Valentina Izmirlieva:
Associate Professor (Slavic Languages), 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
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
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




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