Slavic Languages & Literatures

Specializes in Polish language instruction and Russian and Eastern European film and literature.

Specializes in Russian language instruction and Russian culture and literature.

Specializes in Russian literature and creator and developer of the “Books Behind Bars” program, in which university students lead discussions about classical literature with inmates at a juvenile correctional center in Virginia.

Specializes in Russian literature and culture of the 20th century, Polish literature and culture of various periods, Literature, ideology, and history, Soviet communism, The Gulag: Its history, literature, and propaganda

Specializes in 19th-century Russian literature, Tolstoy, 18th-century Russian literature, medieval Russian literature, literary theory, language pedagogy

Specializes in Russian and Methods of Teaching Slavic Languages

Specializes in the interactions between literature, philosophy, religion, and utopian thought and the question of imagined geography and perceptions of space and place in contemporary Russian culture

Specializes in theoretical phonology and morphology, historical linguistics, Slavic and Balkan linguistics

Specializes in Russian literature and the visual arts, Russian Orthodox revival, heritage preservation, 19th-century prose, cultural and museum studies, art and society, national culture and identity, and contemporary literature

Specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature, especially the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov, Russian and East European cinema