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The following is a partial list of the activities of our Ph.D. 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!

2000sKarin Beck
Core lecturer, Columbia University

Brinton Tench Coxe
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harriman Institute, Columbia University

Colleen McQuillen
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago

John Isham
Assistant Professor of Great Ideas and Modern Languages
Carthage College, Wisconsin

Kirsten Lodge
Post-doctoral fellow, Harriman Institute

Marta Deyrup
Associate Professor and Catalog Coordinator, Seton Hall University

Irina Kronrod
Editor. Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), The Getty Research Institute
Lecturer. L'Université des Langues Orientales (INALCO) and Drouot Formation, Hôtel Drouot, Paris.
Independent scholar and art consultant.
Wassily Kandinsky. Farbensprache, Kompositionslehre und andere unveröffentlichte Texte. 1889—1916, in collaboration with J. Boissel and J.-Cl. Marcadé.

Jefferson J. A. Gattrall
Lecturer, Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield, UK

David Cooper
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Traditional Slovak Folktales [trans. and ed.]

Douglas Greenfield
Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Humanities, Bucknell University

Adrienne Kim
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Rebecca Stanton
Assistant Professor, Barnard College

Valeria Sobol
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Ellen Scaruffi
U.S. Naval Academy, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Lyudmila Parts
Assistant Professor, McGill University

Nina Gourianova
Assistant Professor, 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
(Comp. Lit/Slavic)
Assistant Professor of European Culture and German Studies, MIT
Requiem for Communism

Clark Troy
Consultant, Princeton Consultants

Christopher Harwood
Lecturer in Czech, Columbia University

Emily D. Johnson
Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma
The Science of Local Sentiment: How Early Twentieth-Century Petersburg Learned to Study Itself

Kirsten Blythe Painter
Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian and German Modernism

Nicole Svobodny
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
Adjunct Professor, European University, Russia

Ludmilla A. Trigos
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
Lecturer, Princeton University

Hilary L. Fink
Associate Professor, Yale University
Bergson and Russian modernism, 1900-1930

Hilde M. Hoogenboom
Assistant Professor,
SUNY-Albany

Mary Laurita
Associate Dean of Faculties, Washington University

Carol Ueland
Professor, Drew University
Apollo in the Snow: Selected Poems by Alexander Kushner [trans. and ed.]

Paul Milan Foster Jr.
Dir. of Graduate Programs, SE European University, Macedonia

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
Adjunct Assistant Professor, 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
♦ 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 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, 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
Administrator, Warsaw University

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
Sarah Pratt
Professor, USC
♦ Nikolai Zabolotsky: Enigma and Cultural Paradigm
♦ Russian Metaphysical Romanticism: The Poetry of Tiutchev and Boratynskii

Robin Feuer Miller
Professor, Brandeis University
♦ 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
Associate 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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