Alumni
Philipp Penka
Founder, Penka Rare Books
PhD, 2016
Contact: info@penkararebooks.com Dissertation title: “I Whisper Into the Radio Ear”: Radio Sound and Russian Modernist Poetics. Awards: Harvard Graduate Society Merit Fellowship (Fall 2012) V. S. Setchkarev Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper (Spring...
Rachel Platonov
Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies, Department of Russian and East European Studies, University of Manchester
PhD, June 2004
Contact: Rachel.Platonov@manchester.ac.uk
Julian Pokay
Visiting Fellow, Institute for the Human Sciences Vienna
A.M., May 2017
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...
Maxim Pozdorovkin
Filmmaker/Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University
PhD, 2012
Co-director of documentary Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Elizabeth Ransome
eransome@fas.harvard.eduPhD, May 2016
Dissertation Title: “ Il Paradosso dello Spirito Russo: Piero Gobetti and the Genius of Liberal Revolution” Education: MA Harvard University, 1992 (Slavic Languages and Literatures) Maîtrise, langue et littérature russes, Université de Paris IV- Sorbonne...
Maria Ratanova
Manager, Market Research & Strategy, Dissertation Blueprint
PhD, May 2016
Philip Redko
Literary Translator
PhD, May 2019
Rebecca Reich
University Associate Professor of Russian Literature and Culture/Director of Slavonic Studies Section, University of Cambridge, Jesus College
PhD, November 2010
Contact: rr423@cam.ac.uk
Kylie Richardson
University Lecturer in Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall
PhD, June 2003
Contact: krr22@cam.ac.uk
Katie Rose
Humanities Teacher, Vanier College (Montreal); Owner, KnitVerdun
PhD, May 2016
Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-rose-307b3356/?originalSubdomain=ca Dissertation Title: "Multivalent Russian Medievalism: Old Russia Through New Eyes" Education: A.M. Slavic Languages and Literatures; Harvard University, 2009 A.B. Slavic...
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...
Andreas Schönle
Professor, Department of Russian, University of Bristol
PhD, November 1995
Contact: a.schonle@bristol.ac.uk
Sasha Senderovich
Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington
PhD, November 2010
Contact: senderov@uw.edu
Giovanna Siedina
Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Intercultural Studies, University of Florence
PhD, November 2014
Contact: giovanna.siedina@unifi.it
Geordie Kenyon Sinclair
AM, May 2019
Geordie's research interests are in the theory and practice of translation; 20th-century Russian and Soviet poetry, prose, and culture; poetic persona and voice; and gender in language and literature. His current projects include work on the “gulag...
Sasha Spektor
Associate Professor of Russian/Russian Program Coordinator, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Georgia
PhD, November 2008
Contact: spektoa@uga.edu
Lidia Stefanowska
Lecturer, Department of Ukrainian Studies, University of Warsaw; Literary Translator/Critic
PhD, June 1999
Contact: lstefanowska@uw.edu.pl
Iaroslava Strikha
Literary Translator/Reviewer, LitAktsent
PhD, May 2017
Contact: iaroslava.strikha@gmail.com Dissertation title: “Writing Between the Lines: Formal discontinuities in autobiographies of Ukrainian writers, 1890s-1940s” Iaroslava Strikha received her BA and MA at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”...
Anna Gessen Summers
Literary Translator
PhD, November 2007