People
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
George Mihaychuk
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages, Georgetown University
PhD, June 1990
Jenya Mironava
spallinomironava@fas.harvard.eduPreceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures
(Russian language program)
My research focuses on twentieth-century Russian and Czech literature and culture, with emphasis on questions of temporality, formal experimentation, and linguistic play. My work engages with the issues of memory, including ways of memorializing the past...
Jess Jensen Mitchell
PhD, November 2025
Jess Jensen Mitchell received a Joint Honours degree in History and Slavic Studies at McGill University in Montreal, and has also studied at the University of Warsaw, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Middlebury College. In 2023-4, she was a...
Paul Morrison
paulmorrison@g.harvard.eduPh.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Paul is a PhD candidate from Scotland in the UK. He earned his undergraduate degree in German and Russian Studies from the University of Edinburgh in 2020, which entailed periods of study abroad at Moscow State University and the University of Tübingen...
Ashley Morse
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Area Studies, St. Olaf College
PhD, May 2023
Contact: morse10@stolaf.edu Ashley Morse specializes in early modern Russian literature. Combining extensive archival research and close philological analysis of primary texts with a broad theoretical framework, his dissertation, “The Spiritual Origins of...
Ainsley Morse
Associate Professor, Department of Literature, University of California San Diego
PhD, May 2016
Contact: aemorse@ucsd.edu
Rachael Neidinger
PhD, February 2025
Rachael’s interest in the Slavic world first came from figure skating and training with a former Soviet champion. After retiring from competitive ice dance, Rachael was able to focus on Russian and later Czech as NYU, where she earned her bachelor’s and...
Hope Nicholson
hopenicholson@g.harvard.eduPh.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures
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...
Séamas O'Driscoll
Director, Research, Strategy, & Narratology, Epitome Group
PhD, November 2005