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The following is a partial list of the activities of our Ph.D.
and M.A. graduates from the last three decades. Alumni are urged to contact the
Department Chair or other faculty members with news of their latest
books and other accomplishments!
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2010s Jack Faust Matlock, Jr.
Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Elizabeth Kosakowska
Adjunct
Hunter College
Jacqueline Bertucci (MA)
Slavic Cultures
Anna Dvigubski
Adjunct Lecturer in Russian
Columbia University
Kristen Bresnahan (MA)
Slavic Languages
Marysia Dzieduszycka
Executive Director
The Zbigniew Herbert Foundation
Warsaw, Poland
Alexandra Kotar (MA)
Russian Translation
Michael Tobias (MA)
Slavic Languages
Nina Bond
Visiting Assistant Professor
Franklin and Marshall College
John C. Wright
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Neurolinguistics
Department of Slavic Languages
Duke University
Margo Rosen
Core Lecturer
Columbia University
Marijeta Bozovic
Assistant Professor
Yale University
Ani Kokobobo
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Kansas
Emma Lieber
Lecturer, Core Curriculum and Slavic Department
Columbia University (2012 -2013)
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| 2000s |
Rory Finnin
Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies
University of Cambridge
Jonathan Brooks Platt
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Piitsburgh
Rebecca Pyatkevich
Summer Session Lecturer
Columbia University
Erica Siegel
Advising Dean
Columbia University
Bella Grigoryan
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Yale University
Thomas Kitson
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Russian
Drew University
Paola Castagna
Core Lecturer
Columbia University
Vadim Shkolnikov
Adjunct Lecturer in Russian
Rutgers University
"The Crisis of the Beautiful Soul and the Hidden History of Russian Hegelianism"
Judith Wermuth-Atkinson
Core Lecturer
Columbia University
"Meeting Myself in Nottingham" (essay)
Jamie Bennett
Lecturer
Department of Slavic Languages
Columbia University
Jason Galie
Assistant Professor of Russian
Defense Language Institute, Arlington, VA
Karin Beck
Academic Director
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany
Brinton Tench Coxe
Independent Scholar
"Playground, Graveyard: Violence, the Body and BorderlineUrban Space in Lilja 4-Ever"
Colleen McQuillen
Assistant Professor, Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois, Chicago
John Isham
Assistant Professor of Great Ideas and Modern Languages
Carthage College, Wisconsin
Kirsten Lodge
Assistant Professor of Comparative and World Literature
Midwestern State University
Marta Deyrup
Professor and Co-Director of the Elizabeth Ann Seton Center for Women's Studies
Seton Hall University
Irina Kronrod
Sotheby's Private Client Group, Sotheby's, London
Editor, Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), The Getty Research Institute
Wassily Kandinsky. Farbensprache, Kompositionslehre und andere unveröffentlichte Texte. 1889—1916, in collaboration with J. Boissel and J.-Cl. Marcadé.
Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Russian Program
Montclair State University
Alter Icons: The Russian Icon and Modernity
David Cooper
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Traditional Slovak Folktales [trans. and ed.]
Creating the Nation: Identity and Aesthetics in Early 19th-Century Russia and Bohemia
Douglas Greenfield
Assistant Professor, Intellectual Heritage Program
Temple University
Alter Icons: The Russian Icon and Modernity
Adrienne Kim Bird
Affiliated Faculty, Slavic Languages and Literatures
International Student and Scholars Coordinator
University of Virginia
Rebecca Stanton
Assistant Professor of Russian
Barnard College
Isaac Babel and the Self-Invention of Odessan Modernism
Valeria Sobol
Associate Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Febris Erotica: Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imagination
Ellen Scaruffi
Adjunct Assistant Professor
U.S. Naval Academy
Lyudmila Parts
Associate Professor, Russian Studies
Graduate Program Director, Dept. of Russian and Slavic Studies
McGill University
The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue with a Classic
The 20th Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion
Nina Gourianova
Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Northwestern University
The Russian futurists and their books
Exploring color: Olga Rozanova and the early Russian Avant-Garde, 1910-1918
Elena Guro, Writer and Artist: Selected Writings from the Archives
Grigory Kruzhkov
Adjunct Professor, RGGU (Russian State University for the Humanities)
Nostalgiia obeliskov : literaturnye mechtaniia
Charity Scribner
Class of 1954 Career Development Professor of European Cultural Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Requiem for Communism
Clark Troy
Senior Analyst, Aite Group
Christopher Harwood
Lecturer in Czech Language and Literature
Columbia University
Emily D. Johnson
Associate Professor of Russian
University of Oklahoma
How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie
Kirsten Blythe Painter
Independent Scholar
Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian and German Modernism
Nicole Svobodny
Assistant Dean and Lecturer in International and Area Studies
Washington University, St. Louis
Under the Sky of My Africa: Pushkin and Blackness [ed., with Catharine Nepomnyashchy and Ludmilla Trigos]
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| 1990s |
Gina Pacht Kovarsky
Assistant Professor, VCU School of World Studies
Pavel V. Lyssakov
Director, International Programs
European University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Ludmilla A. Trigos
Independent Scholar
The Decembrist Myth in Russian Culture
Under the Sky of My Africa: Pushkin and Blackness [ed., with Catharine Nepomnyashchy and Nicole Svobodny]
Nancy Workman
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Olga L. Briker
Director of Development, Silver Springs--Martin Luther School
Mallika Urvashi Ramdas
Instructor, United World College of South East Asia, Singapore
I. Christina Weinberg (Sperrle)
The organic worldview of Nikolai Leskov
Ksana Blank
Senior Lecturer, Princeton University
Dostoevsky’s Dialectics and the Problem of Sin
Hilary L. Fink
Lecturer, Yale University
Dean of Bradford College, Yale University
Bergson and Russian modernism, 1900-1930
Hilde M. Hoogenboom
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University
Mapping the Feminine: Russian Women and Cultural Difference (ed., with Catharine Nepomnyashchy and Irina Reyfman)
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great (trans. and ed.)
Mary Laurita
Assistant Dean and Director of Peer Advising
College of Arts and Sciences
Washington University, St. Louis
Carol Ueland
Professor of Russian and Chair of the Dept. of German, Russian, Chinese and Arabic, Drew University
Apollo in the Snow: Selected Poems by Alexander Kushner [trans. and ed.]
Paul Milan Foster Jr.
Senior Lecturer and Director, Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR)
Indiana University
Thomas S. Newlin
Associate Professor, Oberlin College
The Voice in the Garden: Andrei Bolotov and the Anxieties of Russian Pastoral, 1738-1833
Literature, History, and Politics: A Festschrift for Thompson Bradley [ed.]
Thomas S. Popovich
Professor, Nassau Community College
Maude F. Meisel
Coordinator and Adjunct Faculty
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University
Adrian Wanner
Professor and Dept. Head, Penn. State University
Baudelaire in Russia
Russian Minimalism: From the Prose Poem to the Anti-Story
Svetlana Grenier
Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Representing the Marginal Woman in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Personalism, Feminism, and Polyphony
Olga Meerson
Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Personalism as Poetics: the World of Fiction through Its Inhabitants’ Eyes / Personalizm kak poetika. Literaturnyj mir glazami ego obitatelej
Andrey Platonov, The Foundation Pit (trans., with Robert and Elizabeth Chandler)
Dostoevsky's Taboos
Svobodnaia veshch': Poetika neostraneniia u Andreia Platonova
Deborah Martinsen
Adjunct Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Columbia University
Surprised by Shame: Dostoevsky's Liars and Narrative Exposure
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1980s
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Natalia Lusin
Librarian, Info Specialist, MLA
Master the Basics: Russian
Russian Grammar
Richard Chandler Borden
Independent Scholar,
Translator
The Art of Writing Badly: Valentin Kataev's Mauvism
and the Rebirth of Russian Modernism
Leonid Dobychin, Gorod N. [trans. & ed.]
Marcia Morris
Professor, Georgetown University
Saints and Revolutionaries: The Ascetic Hero in
Russian Literature
The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- And
Eighteenth-Century Russia
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
Professor and Department
Chair, Barnard College
Director Emerita, Harriman Institute
♦ Under the Sky of My Africa:
Pushkin and Blackness [ed., with Ludmilla
Trigos and Nicole Svobodny]
♦ Abram Tertz and the Poetics of Crime
♦ Abram Tertz (Andrey Sinyavsky), Strolls with Pushkin [intro and trans., with Slava Yastremski]
Janina Kancewicz-Hoffman
Senior Science Officer and Head of Unit
Standing Committee for the Humanities
European Science Foundation
Ian C. Kelly
U.S. Department of State
Konstantin Kustanovich
Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
The Artist and the Tyrant: Vassily Aksenov's Works in
the Brezhnev Era
John Spiegel
Associate Professor,
Northeastern University
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Professor, University of Wisconsin,
Madison
♦ Doubly Chosen: Jewish Identity, the Soviet
Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church
♦ The Cossack Hero in Russian Literature: A Study in
Cultural Mythology
Liza A. Knapp
Associate Professor, Columbia University
♦ The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and
Metaphysics
♦ Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy's Anna Karenina [ed.]
♦ Dostoevsky's The Idiot: A Critical Companion
Franklin A. Sciacca
Associate Professor, Hamilton College
Thomas P. Barran
Professor, CUNY (Brooklyn College)
Russia Reads Rousseau, 1762-1825
Marcus C. Levitt
Professor, USC
♦ Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration
of 1880
♦ Early Modern Russian Writers: Late-Seventeenth &
Eighteenth Centuries [ed.]
Michael M. Naydan
Professor, Penn. State
University
A Land the Size of Binoculars (Writings from an
Unbound Europe) [trans., ed.]
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1970s
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Sarah Pratt
Professor, USC
Nikolai Zabolotsky: Enigma and Cultural Paradigm
Russian Metaphysical Romanticism: The Poetry of Tiutchev
and Boratynskii
The Semantics of Chaos in Tjutcev
Robin Feuer Miller
Professor, Brandeis University
Dostoevsky's Unfinished Journey
Dostoevsky and The Idiot: Author, Narrator, and
Reader
The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel
The Cambridge
Companion to the Classic Russian Novel[co-ed.].
Patricia Krafcik
Professor,
Evergreen State College
Vampires in the Carpathians
Irwin Radezky
Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson
University
Sharon M. Carnicke
Professor, USC
Stanislavsky in Focus
Anne Frydman
Professor, John Hopkins
University
At His Side; The Last Years of Isaac Babel by A.
Pirozkkova [trans., ed.]
Diana Greene
Slavic Librarian, NYU
Reinventing Romantic Poetry: Russian Women Poets of
the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Lesley S. Herrmann
Executive Director, Gilder
Lehrmann Institute of American History
Gary Cox
Associate Professor,
Southern Methodist University
Crime and Punishment: A Mind to Murder
Peter Kussi
Lecturer in Czech, Columbia University (retired)
numerous translations of Kundera and
other Czech authors
Mark Pomar
Administrator, IREX
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