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.
Alison Annunziata (Russian Literature) PhD 2013
Dissertation: "Sentimentalism Made Strange: Shklovsky, Karamzin, Rousseau"
Adviser: Irina Reyfman
Katharine Holt (Russian Literature), PhD 2013
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Dissertation: "The Rise of Insider Iconography: Visions of Soviet Turkmenia in Russian-Language Literature and Film, 1921 - 1935."
Adviser: Valentina Izmirlieva
Maksim Hanukai (Russian Literature), PhD expected 2013
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Dissertation: Pushkin's Tragic Vision.
Adviser: Boris Gasparov
Anna Dvigubski (Russian Literature), PhD 2012
Dissertation: The Figured Author: Authorial Cameos in Post-Romantic Russian Literature.
Adviser: Irina Reyfman
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
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 2013
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Dissertation: Authorial Scope in High Stalinism
Adviser: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
Emma Lieber (Russian Literature), PhD 2011
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Dissertation: On the Distinctiveness of the Russian Novel: The Brothers Karamazov and the English 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 Independent Turn in Soviet-era Russian Poetry: How Dmitry Bobyshev, Joseph Brodsky, Anatoly Naiman and Evgeny Rein Became The "Avvakumites of Leningrad."
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
