Current Job Market Candidates
The following job candidates recently received, or soon will receive, the Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures from Columbia. Click on the candidate's name to see more information about him or her.
Anna Dvigubski (Russian Literature), PhD expected 2012
Dissertation: The Figured Author: Authorial Cameos in Post-Romantic Russian Literature.
Adviser: Irina Reyfman
Natalia Ermolaev (Russian Literature), PhD 2010
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Dissertation: Modernism, Motherhood and Mariology: The Poetry and Theology of Maria Skobtsova.
Adviser: Liza Knapp
Andrew B. Hicks (Russian Literature), PhD expected 2012
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Dissertation: Authorial Scope in High Stalinism
Adviser: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
Emma Lieber (Russian Literature), PhD 2011
Dissertation: On the Distinctiveness of the Russian Novel: Form and Body in the Russian Tradition.
Adviser: Liza Knapp
Rebecca Pyatkevich (Russian Literature), PhD 2010
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Dissertation: How to Do Things with Poems: Metaphors of the Poet’s Power in Joseph Brodsky’s Work.
Adviser: Liza Knapp
Margo Rosen (Russian Literature), PhD 2011
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Dissertation: The Avvakumites of Leningrad: Early Poetry of Dmitry Bobyshev, Joseph Brodsky, Anatoly Naiman, and Evgeny Rein in its Cultural Context.
Adviser: Boris Gasparov
Judith Wermuth-Atkinson (Russian Literature), PhD 2007
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Dissertation: Cerebral Play: Andrei Bely’s Petersburg as a Novel of the European Modern
Adviser: Irina Reyfman