Our Graduate Students
Our graduate students come from a variety of backgrounds and countries.
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. Her research interests include the cultural production of memory in twentieth-century film and literature, literary modernism and postmodernism, and Soviet...
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
Lina is a second-year PhD student in Slavic Languages and Literatures. She holds a BA in Philology, with a minor in Cultural Anthropology, from HSE University in St. Petersburg, where she graduated cum laude in 2023, and an MA in Russian, East European...
Ričards Umbraško
Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Ričards’s research focuses on comparative postcolonial literatures of post-Soviet Eastern Europe, with particular interests in Ukrainian literature and culture, Baltic literatures, media studies, and the cultural politics of empire, decolonization, and...
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...
Aida Vidan
Associate Curator, Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University; Director of Studies, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies, Tufts University; Part-Time Lecturer in Cinema and Media Studies, Boston University
PhD, June 2000
Contact: avidan@fas.harvard.edu Aida Vidan is Associate Curator of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature at Harvard University and Director of Studies in the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies at Tufts University where she...
Director of Graduate Studies
Daria Khitrova
dkhitrova@fas.harvard.edu
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