# Our Graduate Students ## expand\_more Our graduate students come from a variety of backgrounds and countries. [### Aleksandra Kremer ](/people/aleksandra-kremer) Alfred Jurzykowski Professor of Polish Language and Literature Department Chair Interests: Polish literature and culture ![Aleksandra Kremer headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-10/Kremer_Aleksandra.jpg?h=037b1646&itok=qo8xoYyr) [### Justin Weir ](/people/justin-mccabe-weir) Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Professor of Comparative Literature ![Justin weir headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-10/Weir_Justin.jpg?itok=hGD0mWCW) [### Bayara Aroutunova Manusevitch ](/people/bayara-aroutunova)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... ![Bayara Aoutunova photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/aroutunova_bayara_photo_for_website.jpg?itok=SMcTsyc9) [### Anna Barańczak ](/people/anna-bara%C5%84czak)Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Retired (Polish language program) ![annabaranczak.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/annabaranczak.jpg?itok=qHFPwvIP) [### Alexandra Barcus ](/people/alexandra-barcus)Educator/Writer/Independent Consultant, Self-Employed PhD, 1991 Contact: person [### Justyna Beinek ](/people/justyna-beinek)Researcher & Translator. Previously: Assistant Director of Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas. PhD, June 2001 Contact: ![a picture of Justyna](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-04%20at%2010.45.24%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=gkP6Ha24) [### 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) [### David M. Bethea ](/people/david-m-bethea) Representative-at-Large (Literature) & Co-Editor University of Wisconsin ![no_image_avatar.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/no_image_avatar_55.png?itok=1dfYm_Ei) [### Christina Y. Bethin ](/people/christina-y-bethin) Representative-at-Large (Linguistics) & Co-Editor SUNY, Stony Brook ![no_image_avatar.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/no_image_avatar_54.png?itok=zem6xCBn) [### Edyta Bojanowska ](/people/edyta-bojanowska)Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures/Affiliated Faculty, Department of History, Yale University PhD, November 2002 Contact: ![a picture of Edyta ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-04%20at%2011.01.40%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=UiyWu7ae) [### Jonathan Bolton ](/people/jonathan-bolton) Howard Mumford Jones Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures ![bolton-400.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/bolton-400.jpg?itok=A2gOOmoq) [### Sofiya Boroday ](/people/sofiya-boroday) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures person [### Christine Borowec ](/people/christine-borowec)Lecturer (Retired), Eller School of Accountancy, University of Arizona PhD, 1991 person [### Svetlana Boym ](/people/svetlana-boym)Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures ![boym-400.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/boym-400.jpg?itok=-6aBBYKh) [### Alex Braslavsky ](/people/alex-braslavsky) Ph.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... ![Headshot of Alex Braslavsky weatring round glasses and a patterned shirt, with a blue background.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/headshot.png?itok=EXTsPp0J) [### Olga Breininger-Umetayeva ](/people/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... ![olga.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/olga.jpeg?itok=dc4NOMwc) [### James Browning ](/people/james-browning) Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures person [### Julie A. Buckler ](/people/julie-buckler-0) Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures ![a picture of Julie buckler ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-11/Julie%20Buckler.jpg?itok=pfmMW-2O) [### Julie Buckler ](/people/julie-buckler)Samuel Hazard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University PhD, May 1996 Contact: ![a photo of Julie ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Screenshot%202025-08-08%20at%202.23.15%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=Cz-s5sVF) [### Joanna Burdzel ](/people/joanna-burdzel) Ph.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... ![Joanna Burdzel](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/slavic/files/image0.jpeg?itok=QjY_wdfB) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [4](?page=3 "Go to page 4") - [5](?page=4 "Go to page 5") - [6](?page=5 "Go to page 6") - [7](?page=6 "Go to page 7") - [8](?page=7 "Go to page 8") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page") [ Show More Graduate Students arrow\_circle\_right ](/people) ## Director of Graduate Studies [**Daria Khitrova**](https://faculty.slavic.fas.harvard.edu/daria-khitrova/home) Barker Center 369 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138