Graduate Students

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...

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...

Hope Nicholson earned her BA in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford in 2023 and an MPhil in Comparative Literature from the University of Cambridge a year later. During her undergraduate degree, Hope studied Russian literature from 1100 to the...

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...

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...

Sofiya received a joint BA/MA in linguistics and digital humanities from the University of Chicago in 2021. While there, she served as artistic director for UBallet, the university's student-run ballet company. Currently a G3, her research interests...