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.
Karin Beck (Russian and Czech Literature), PhD 2007
Dissertation:Foreign Language
as a Literary Devise: The Use of French in Russian and the Use of
German in Czech Literature.
Adviser: Cathy Popkin
B. Tench Coxe (Russian Literature), PhD 2007
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Dissertation: The Role and Image of Moscow in Soviet Film and Literature
Adviser: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
Jefferson J. A. Gattrall (Comparative Literature), PhD 2005
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Dissertation:
Fictions of a Realist Christ: Jesus as a Literary Character in European and American Prose, 1830-1900
Adviser:
Robert L. Belknap
Douglas Greenfield (Russian Literature), PhD 2004
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Dissertation:
Modern Russian Religious Thinkers and the Visual Imagination
Adviser:
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
Andrew B. Hicks (Russian Literature)
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Dissertation: Authorial Scope in High Stalinism
Adviser:
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
Natalia Ermolaev (Russian Literature)
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Dissertation: Modernism, Motherhood and Mariology: The Poetry and Theology of Maria Skobtsova.
Adviser:
Liza Knapp
Kirsten Lodge (Russian and Czech Literature), PhD 2006
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Dissertation: The Peak of Civilization on the Brink of Collapse: The ‘Roman Paradigm’ in Czech and Russian Decadence.
Adviser: Boris Gasparov
Jonathan Brooks Platt (Russian Literature)
Dissertation: Feast in the Time of Terror: Stalinist Temporal Paradox and the 1937 Pushkin Jubilee
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