Our Graduate Students
Our graduate students come from a variety of backgrounds and countries.
Aleksandra Kremer
akremer@fas.harvard.eduAlfred Jurzykowski Professor of Polish Language and Literature
Department Chair
Interests: Polish literature and culture
Justin Weir
weir@fas.harvard.eduCurt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Professor of Comparative Literature
Bayara Aroutunova Manusevitch
Senior Lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1963-1987
IN MEMORIAM BAYARA AROUTUNOVA MANUSEVITCH (1 November 1916–12 March 2019) Bayara Aroutunova Manusevitch died at home in Belmont, Massachusetts, on March 12, 2019, at the age of 102. After receiving a Ph.D. in Russian linguistics at Harvard in 1958, she...
Anna Barańczak
Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Retired
(Polish language program)
Alexandra Barcus
Educator/Writer/Independent Consultant, Self-Employed
PhD, 1991
Justyna Beinek
Researcher & Translator. Previously: Assistant Director of Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas.
PhD, June 2001
Aleksey Berg
Lecturer in Foreign Languages, Department of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania
PhD, May 2013
Contact: aleksey@sas.upenn.edu
David M. Bethea
dmbethea@facstaff.wisc.eduRepresentative-at-Large (Literature) & Co-Editor
University of Wisconsin
Christina Y. Bethin
christina.bethin@sunysb.eduRepresentative-at-Large (Linguistics) & Co-Editor
SUNY, Stony Brook
Edyta Bojanowska
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures/Affiliated Faculty, Department of History, Yale University
PhD, November 2002
Contact: edyta.bojanowska@yale.edu
Jonathan Bolton
jbolton@fas.harvard.eduHoward Mumford Jones Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Christine Borowec
Lecturer (Retired), Eller School of Accountancy, University of Arizona
PhD, 1991
Svetlana Boym
Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures
Alex Braslavsky
alexbraslavsky@g.harvard.eduPh.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Alex Braslavsky earned her B.A. in English Literature and Russian Language and Culture from Columbia University in 2018. As an undergraduate, she began delving into Russian and French poetry and studied abroad in Moscow and Paris. She then went on to...
Olga Breininger-Umetayeva
Teacher, Moscow Creative Writing School/Columnist, Druzhba Narodov
PhD, May 2019
Provisional Dissertation Title: «Wonderland, Terrorland, Sonderland: Northern Caucasus as Liminal Timespace». Education: M.Phil. In Modern Languages (Russian & German), University of Oxford (distinction) B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing, Gorky...
James Browning
Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Julie A. Buckler
buckler@fas.harvard.eduSamuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Julie Buckler
Samuel Hazard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
PhD, May 1996
Contact: buckler@fas.harvard.edu
Joanna Burdzel
jburdzel@g.harvard.eduPh.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Joanna earned her B.A. in Russian and Studies in World Literature from the College of the Holy Cross in 2019, with a minor in philosophy. As an undergraduate she studied at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, and at the Jagiellonian...
Director of Graduate Studies
Daria Khitrova
dkhitrova@fas.harvard.edu
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