Job Market Candidates

Brett Donohoe
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Amherst College
PhD, May 2024
Contact: bdonohoe@amherst.edu Brett Donohoe received his B.A in linguistics and Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies at the University of Texas in 2016 and his M.A. in Slavic linguistics from Indiana University in 2018. He has studied and worked...
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Giulia Dossi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Area Studies/Russian Section Head, St. Olaf's College
PhD, November 2022
Contact: dossi1@stolaf.edu Giulia Dossi's research focuses broadly on nineteenth-century Russian literature and affect theory. In her dissertation she examines the use of grotesque affectivity in the texts of early psychopathology and literary Realism in...
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Maya Garcia
Freelance Russian-English Interpreter, San Francisco Bay Area
PhD, November 2023
Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maya-garcia-86728b78/ Maya Garcia received her B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014. Her undergraduate honors thesis explored the...
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Ashley Morse
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Area Studies, St. Olaf College
PhD, May 2023
Contact: morse10@stolaf.edu Ashley Morse specializes in early modern Russian literature. Combining extensive archival research and close philological analysis of primary texts with a broad theoretical framework, his dissertation, “The Spiritual Origins of...
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Rachael Neidinger
PhD, February 2025
Rachael’s interest in the Slavic world first came from figure skating and training with a former Soviet champion. After retiring from competitive ice dance, Rachael was able to focus on Russian and later Czech as NYU, where she earned her bachelor’s and...
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Sara Jo Powell
Medical Assistant, Capitol Vision
PhD, November 2021
Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sallyjopowell/ Sara's research focuses on Ukrainian and Russian literature, in particular the work of Nikolai Gogol and that of Taras Shevchenko . She is especially interested in the roles of women, stereotypes of...
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Matthew Schantz
English Teaching Fellow, Boston University Academy
PhD, November 2023
Matthew Schantz’s research focuses on the practice and imaginary of science in the early Soviet Union. In his dissertation, he traces fantastika’s decline in the late 1920s to its partial rehabilitation following Stalin’s death. Paying particular...
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