Our Graduate Students
Our graduate students come from a variety of backgrounds and countries.
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...
Nadezhda Vikulina
nvikulina@g.harvard.eduPh.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Nadia is an international student from Dimitrovgrad, Russia. She earned her BA degree in comparative literature from Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Saint Petersburg, where she focused on American and Russian 20th-century poetry and...
Sarah Vitali
Literary Translator; Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge
PhD, November 2019
Contact: scv27@cam.ac.uk Education AB, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University Certificates in Eurasian Studies and French Language and Culture Interests Russian Silver Age poetry Mak Dizdar and Bosnian identity Literary translation Awards...
Olga Voronina
Assistant Professor of Russian; Director, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, Bard College
PhD, June 2010
Contact: ovoronin@bard.edu
Abigail Weil
Research & Instruction Outreach Librarian/Library Subject Specialist, Modern Languages and Literatures , Swarthmore College
PhD, November 2019
Contact: aweil1@swarthmore.edu
Timothy Westphalen
Associate Professor of Russian Studies, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, Stony Brook University
PhD, March 1991
Contact: timothy.westphalen@stonybrook.edu
Valentina Zaitseva
Associate Teaching Professor (Slavic Languages & Literatures), University of Washington
PhD, June 1992
Contact: vaz2@uw.edu
Liya Zalaltdinova
lzalaltdinova@fas.harvard.eduPreceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures
(Russian language program)
Залалтдинова Лия Илгизеровна Before joining Harvard in 2022, Liya taught Russian at Oberlin College (as a Fulbright TA), at the University of Pittsburgh, Williams College, and at the University of Colorado. She also taught English courses at the Kazan...
Director of Graduate Studies
Daria Khitrova
dkhitrova@fas.harvard.edu
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12 Quincy Street
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