About the Graduate Students

Interests: Russian poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries and the intersections of literature and the visual arts. Dissertation: "Joseph Brodsky and the Nativity: An Intersemiotic Approach."

Interests: cognition, dictionaries, and the creation of meaning in fictional worlds, especially in Nabokov; Russian and European modernism, Czech Structuralism (esp. Lubomír Doležel), and Umberto Eco's semiotics.

Research interests: late-Soviet and contemporary Russian art; post-war Russian poetry; nineteenth-century Russian intelligentsia; Eastern European and Soviet/Russian cinema. Dissertation: "The New Artists of Leningrad and Their Environs."

Interests: Russian Symbolism and Silver Age; early émigré culture and literature; the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky.

Interests: Russian Prose and Poetry of the first half of the twentieth century. Reverberations of Italian literature and culture in twentieth century Russian literature with a particular focus on Russian letters' assimilation of Dante and the Divina Commedia. Dissertation "Dante and Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita's Italian Ancestor".

Interests: 19th & 20th century literature (American, British, Russian); Russia/Russians in Western culture; the global afterlives of 19th-century Russian literature (esp. Tolstoy); translation studies; semiotics (esp. Lotman); periodization; comparativity; intersections between scientific and humanistic discourses; Russia and Postmodernity; working-class culture.

Interests: contemporary Russian poetry; postmodernism in literature and culture; literary linguistics; bilingualism and language-contact in literature; translation practice and translation theory; Russian narratives of GULAG survivors as a literary fact.

Interests: sociology of literature, Petersburg alternative arts and literature, Soviet avant-garde literature, contemporary South Slavic literature, conceptual and post-modern art in the former Yugoslavia (NSK and OHO).

Interests: 19th-century Russian prose, theory of the novel, comparative Slavic literatures, literary translation.

Interests: structuralism, Freud, Lacan, narratology, Nabokov, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, youth culture, post-modern Russian literature, Romanian contemporary history, politics, philosophy and literature. Dissertation topic: Dostoevsky's influence on Nabokov

Interests: 19th-century Russian literature in the context of the Eastern Orthodox tradition; Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

19th and 20th-century Russian literature, Russian theatre and visual arts, world cinema, cultural and literary theory, film theory, animation art. Dissertation: "The Development of Russian Animation in the Post-Stalin Era."

Interests: 20th-century Russian poetry; poetic translation (theory and practice; for samples see http://ars-interpres-2.nm.ru/t_v_an_2.html)

Interests: 20th-century Russian/European/American literature, comparative modernism, literary bilingualism (Vladimir Nabokov in particular), émigré literary identity, Russian film (especially problems of cinematic adaptation). Winner of the 2006 Regional AAASS (New England Slavic Association) Graduate Student Essay Contest for “The Interiors of Crime and Punishment.”

Primary interests: early 20th-century Russian and Soviet prose; avant-garde Russian art; British modernism; Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Other interests: feminist theory, women's writing, multicultural exchanges, cultural history. Dissertation title: "Constructing the Other: Empire, Nationhood, and Self-Definition in Soviet and British Modernist Prose."

(Joint PhD Program Film/Slavic Studies).
Interests: theory, contemporary art house European cinema, Russian cinema, Polish cinema, 20th-century Slavic literary culture. Articles published on the resurgence of modernism, the cinematic canon and Aleksandr Sokurov.
Dissertation project on transmodernism, the new modernist aesthetics following the fatigue and collapse of postmodernism.

Interests: 20th Century Russian prose, Soviet culture, post-Soviet literature and film, Polish and Macedonian languages, travel, photography.