Our Graduate Students
Our graduate students come from a variety of backgrounds and countries.
Maria Sonevytsky
msonevyt@bard.eduVisiting Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Associate Professor of Music and Anthropology, Bard College
I am an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Music at Bard College and am delighted to be Visiting the Department of Slavic Language & Literatures at Harvard University in the Fall of 2026. I am a scholar of Ukraine, with a particular interest in the...
Hallie Speight
Assistant District Attorney, Middlesex Country District Attorney's Office
PhD, 1994
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
Sydney Stotter
Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Sydney entered the doctoral program in Slavic Languages and Literatures in the fall of 2022 after receiving a master's degree from the REECA program. Her research interests include the politics of historical memory, film and literature of the Second World...
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
William Mills Todd III
todd@fas.harvard.eduHarry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature, Emeritus
Professor of Comparative Literature
Bohdan Tokarskyi
btokarskyi@fas.harvard.eduAssistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Bohdan Tokarskyi is Assistant Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture. He completed a Ph.D. in Slavonic Studies and an M.Phil in European Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Cambridge (U.K.) he studied...
Dariusz Tolczyk
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Virginia
PhD, June 1994
Contact: dt8n@virginia.edu
Veronika Tuckerova
vtuckerova@fas.harvard.eduSenior Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures
(Czech language program)
Alexander Tullock
Senior Program Manager, Russian Overseas Flagship Program and Turkish Flagship Language Initiative, American Councils for International Education
PhD, November 2019
Lina Turygina
Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Ričards Umbraško
Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Bernadette Urtz
English Teacher, Oxford School of English
PhD, 1994
Julia Vaingurt
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
PhD, March 2005
Contact: vaingurt@uic.edu
Cynthia M. Vakareliyska
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, University of Oregon
PhD, November 1990
Contact: vakarel@uoregon.edu
Emily Van Buskirk
Associate Professor, Russian and East European Languages & Literatures, Rutgers University
PhD, November 2008
Contact: emily.vanbuskirk@rutgers.edu
Maria Vassileva
Literary Translator
PhD, November 2019
Phd, November 2019 Education: B.A. Literature, Harvard College, 2010. Interests: 20th century Russian literature Bulgarian literature Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian literature (esp. Danilo Kiš) Translation, Twitter, Turkish borrowings in Slavic languages...
Anna Vichkitova
PhD, November 2025
Anna Vichkitova is a scholar of Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet culture. Her research interests are broad and interconnected: she has published and presented on post-Soviet memory, Soviet and post-Soviet gender representation, eco-writing and...
Director of Graduate Studies
Daria Khitrova
dkhitrova@fas.harvard.edu
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