Our Graduate Students
Our graduate students come from a variety of backgrounds and countries.
David Keily
Former General Counsel, Visium Asset Management, LP
PhD, 1996
Elizaveta Kheresh
Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Elizaveta Kheresh is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard. She is a researcher of underground communities, contemporary poetry in Eastern Europe, and identity formation. She works in the fields of gender studies...
Daria Khitrova
dkhitrova@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Director of Graduate Studies
Russian poetry of the Golden and Silver Ages; Russian Ballet; Film History; Formalist theory of arts and literature. The range of subjects Daria Khitrova is interested in is explained by the theoretical focus of her research. The latter is on interaction...
Nathaniel Kianovsky
Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Katerina King
Director of Fellowships, Department of Art History and Studio Art, Williams College
PhD, June 1998
Contact: kpk1@williams.edu
Roman Koropeckyj
Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA
PhD, March 1990
Contact: koropeck@humnet.ucla.edu
Vera Koshkina
Collections Specialist, Art and Culture of Eastern Europe, Penka Rare Books
PhD, May 2017
Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vera-koshkina/?originalSubdomain=de Dissertation title: “On the Margins of Experiment: State Sponsorship of Radical Aesthetics in Soviet Cinema, 1960–1968” Education: M.A. Russian Literature, University of Chicago...
Oleh Kotsyuba
kotsyuba@fas.harvard.eduDirector of Print and Digital Publications, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
PhD, 2015
Contact: kotsyuba@fas.harvard.edy Current Harvard Profile Dissertation Title: "Rules of Disengagement: Author, Audience, and Experimentation in Ukrainian and Russian Literature of the 1970s and 1980s" Oleh earned his "Degree of a Specialist“ (equivalent...
Iryna Kovalchuk
ikovalchuk@fas.harvard.eduPreceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures
(Polish Language Program)
I am a linguist (M.A., Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine), community organizer (post-graduate certificate, University of Warsaw, Poland) and cultural manager. I am fond of juggling and mixing these identities. Fluent in Polish and Ukrainian, I am also used to...
Taras Koznarsky
Associate Professor, Ukrainian, Department of Slavic & East European Languages and Cultures, University of Toronto
PhD, June 2001
Contact: taras.koznarsky@utoronto.ca
Barbara Kukushkina
barbarakukushkina@g.harvard.eduPh.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Barbara / Varvara Kukushkina studies the intellectual and visual culture of the Russian Empire from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century. A native of Cherepovets, Russia, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature and...
Kyongjoon Kwong
Associate Professor of Russian, College of Liberal Arts, Kungkyunkwan University
PhD, 2010
Contact: kjkwon@skku.edu
Alexandra Kirilcuk Lyons
Upper School History Teacher, Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
PhD, June 2004
John Malmstad
Samuel Hazzard Cross Research Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Emeritus
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures regrets to report the passing of our colleague John Malmstad on 14 February 2026 at the age of 84. In a scholarly career that lasted over fifty years John Malmstad became internationally known for his...
Edward Manouelian
Academic Success Coordinator II, Marilyn Davies College of Business, University of Houston
PhD, March 1994
Scarlet Marquette
Financial Services and Insurance Manager, Amazon
PhD, May 2013
Terry Martin
martin11@fas.harvard.eduGeorge F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
Faculty Affiliate
Inna Mattei
Strategic Futures Expert/Senior Socio-Cultural Analyst (Private Consultancy)
PhD, June 2009
Director of Graduate Studies
Daria Khitrova
dkhitrova@fas.harvard.edu
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