People
Alexander Droznin
Medical Student, University of Minnesota Medical School
AM, May 2019
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Veronika Egorova | Вероника Александровна Егорова
egorova@fas.harvard.eduSenior Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures
(Russian language program)
Interests Cross-cultural semantics and pragmatics, heritage languages (Russian), bilingualism, second language acquisitions and methods of second language instruction. In 2016 Dr. Egorova launched the first STARTALK program for Russian heritage speakers...
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Jacob Emery
Chair, Department of Comparative Literature; Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University Bloomington
PhD, 2006
Contact: jacemery@iu.edu Interests: Russian, Balkan, and Scandinavian literature. Comparative literature. Materialism and aesthetics. Rhetoric and figure. Theory. Science fiction. Utopian thought. Metafiction. Technologies of transcription. Kinship...
Donald L. Fanger
Harry Levin Professor of Literatur, Emeritus
Associate, Eliot House
Donald L. Fanger, Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, passed away at home on July 17th, at the age of 94, after a short illness. Following appointments at Brown and Stanford Universities (1960-68), he joined the faculty at Harvard...
Natasha Federow
Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Michael S. Flier
flier@fas.harvard.eduOleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology, Emeritus
Maya Garcia
Freelance Russian-English Interpreter, San Francisco Bay Area
PhD, November 2023
Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maya-garcia-86728b78/ Maya Garcia received her B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014. Her undergraduate honors thesis explored the...
Tatyana Gershkovich
William S. Dietrich II Associate Professor of Russian Studies, Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University
PhD, May 2016
Contact: tgershko@andrew.cmu.edu
Augustus Gilchrist
augustus_gilchrist@fas.harvard.eduCoordinator
As Department Coordinator, Augustus serves as main departmental staff contact and provides direct support to the Department Administrator for the department’s administrative and operational functions. Previously, he worked as a gallery attendant at the...
Roy Ginsberg
Jonah Goldrich Postdoctoral Fellow in Yiddish Studies, Tel Aviv University
PhD, May 2024
Contact: ginsberg.royf@gmail.com Roy Ginsberg's research focuses on 20th century avant-garde movements across Eastern Europe and Jewish identities in the late-Russian Empire and Soviet Union. His other research interests include the 19th century Russian...
Vladimir Gitin
In Memoriam
In Memoriam Vladimir Gitin (January 23, 1942 – June 8, 2019) Vladimir Evseevich Gitin died in Ashdod, Israel in June, 2019, at the age of 77. Volodya, as he was known by all who worked with him, worked at Harvard as a teacher of language and literature...
Nathan Goldstone
Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Nathan is a second-year PhD candidate from Waukesha, Wisconsin. His research interests include mechanical investigations into literary narrative (in short, how fiction works) and the nexus of aesthetics and politics in 20 th - and 21 st -century Slavic...
Alexandre Gontchar
PhD Student in Philosophy, The New School
PhD, May 2017
Alexandre Gontchar
Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Dissertation Title: "The Grand Nomadic Symphony: A Study of Human Finitude in Four Movements" degree expected November 2016 Education: M.A., Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto. Thesis: Marina Tsvetaeva through the...
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George G. Grabowicz
grabowic@fas.harvard.eduDmytro Chyzhevs'kyj Professor of Ukrainian Literature, Emeritus
Daniel Green
Affiliated Lecturer in Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge, Selwyn College
PhD, August 2018
Contact: dlcg3@cam.ac.uk Dissertation Title “Dressing the Golden Age: The Symbolism of Clothing in Russian Literature in the Era of Nicholas I” Education: M.Phil. Russian Studies, University of Cambridge B.A. Modern and Medieval Languages (Russian and...
Alexander Groce
Academic Director, Russian Overseas Flagship Program, American Councils for International Education
PhD, June 2016
Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-groce-b04154a/?originalSubdomain=… Dissertation Title: "The Tsar's Scriveners" - Writing Bureaucrats in Nineteenth-century Russia Education: MA in Linguistics from University of Maryland - College Park BA in...
Tim Harte
Provost; Professor of Russian, Department of Russian, Bryn Mawr College
PhD, June 2001
Ian Helfant
Professor of Russian and Environmental Studies, Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Colgate University
PhD, March 1997
Shiori Horton
Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Anna Ivanov
Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Anna Ivanov (she/her/hers) received her B.A. in Russian, Linguistics, and Data Science at Macalester College in 2018. She has studied in Russia through the NSLI-Y scholarship, ACTR RLASP, and Middlebury Schools Abroad. She is currently a Media & Design...
Maya Ivanovna
Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Hakyung Jung
Professor, Department of Russian Language and Literature, Seoul National University
PhD, 2008
Contact: hakyungj@snu.ac.kr
Natasha Kadlec
nkadlec@g.harvard.eduPh.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Natasha studies the cultural history of the Soviet Union. Her research investigates Soviet narratives on world literature and their interaction with national politics, focusing on Belarus, Estonia and Russia. She examines official Soviet cultural...
Emily Kanner
Sales Assistant, Lisson Gallery
PhD, November 2022
Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-kanner-7a30a9161/ Emily received her B.A. in Slavic Studies from Columbia University in 2013. Her interests include poetry of the Silver Age, Romanticism, 18th century Russian literature, photography and visual...
Matthew Kay
Self Help Attorney, Superior Court, Country of San Luis Obispo
PhD, 1999
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