# Job Market Candidates ## expand\_more [### Aleksey Berg ](/people/aleksey-berg)Lecturer in Foreign Languages, Department of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania PhD, May 2013 Contact: ![a picture of Aleksey ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-04%20at%2010.47.41%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=fPZD8KzG) [### Brett Donohoe ](/people/brett-donohoe)Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Amherst College PhD, May 2024 Contact: 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... ![a picture of Brett](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-05%20at%2012.00.09%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=63966715&itok=3tEPYt_V) [### Giulia Dossi ](/people/giulia-dossi)Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Area Studies/Russian Section Head, St. Olaf's College PhD, November 2022 Contact: 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... ![a photo of Giulia ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-05%20at%2011.53.52%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=ftHwUdxC) [### Maya Garcia ](/people/maya-garcia)Freelance Russian-English Interpreter, San Francisco Bay Area PhD, November 2023 Contact: 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... ![a photo of Maya ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-05%20at%202.55.44%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=824c5a33&itok=7Tkg3YrP) [### Ashley Morse ](/people/ashley-morse)Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Area Studies, St. Olaf College PhD, May 2023 Contact: 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... ![a photo of Ashley ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-05%20at%202.20.46%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=r5d2PyT_) [### Rachael Neidinger ](/people/rachel-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... ![Rachel Neidinger](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/rachel_neidinger.jpeg?itok=nPGsoSgj) [### Sara Jo Powell ](/people/sara-powell)Medical Assistant, Capitol Vision PhD, November 2021 Contact: 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... ![a photo of Sara](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-04%20at%203.13.14%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=5e692015&itok=9fv6HIOB) [### Katie Rose ](/people/katie-rose)Humanities Teacher, Vanier College (Montreal); Owner, KnitVerdun PhD, May 2016 Contact: Dissertation Title: "Multivalent Russian Medievalism: Old Russia Through New Eyes" Education: A.M. Slavic Languages and Literatures; Harvard University, 2009 A.B. Slavic... ![a photo of Katie ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-05%20at%2011.42.26%E2%80%AFAM.png?h=50459d34&itok=s0C6B8wW) [### Matthew Schantz ](/people/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... ![A photo of Matthew Schantz,](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/newdept_2.jpeg?itok=TRkWIXTu)