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Stanley Bill
s-bill@northwestern.edu
Areas of Interest: Polish poetry, Comparative Romanticism, Bruno Schulz, Galicia, French Existentialism, Joseph Conrad
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Yulia Borisova
y-borisova@northwestern.edu
Areas of Interest: Contemporary Russian authors; comparative Romanticisms (Russian and English); comparative modernisms (Russian and English); Russian literature of the 1920s
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Katherine Bowers
k-bowers@northwestern.edu
Katia is currently ABD and working on her dissertation on the
influence and development of the Gothic genre through Russian Realist prose. She is tracing out the evolution of Gothic literature in Russia by examining texts by Turgenev, Nekrasov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Chekhov, among others. Her other research interests include poetry, romanticism, women's writing and women's roles in literature, imperialism and urban landscape, Chekhov, Blok, and comparative studies, especially focusing on German and English writers in the context of Russian literary history. A secondary interest is Southeast European literature, in particular that of the modernist period and Balkan writing. A co-director of the "Fallen Curtain" Slavic Film Series for several years, Katia is also extremely
interested in early European cinema and enjoys contemporary films from the Czech Republic, Russia, Hungary, and former Yugoslavia. Katia holds a double B.A. from the University of Virginia in German Literature and Russian & Eastern European Studies. She also received an MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Virginia.
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Anton Breiner
a-breiner@northwestern.edu
Areas of Interest: Russian intellectual history, Nietzsche, the big 20th century, including but not limited to:
Contemporary Russian literature
Post-modernism
Theatre-Russian émigré lit
South Slavic literatures & culture & history
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Tim Christy
t-christy@northwestern.edu
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Kolter Campbell
k-campbell@northwestern.edu
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Jennifer Croft
jennifer-croft@northwestern.edu
Jennifer Croft completed an MFA in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa. She is currently working on twentieth-century European and Latin American fiction, focusing in particular on Witold Gombrowicz and Jorge Luis Borges.
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Connor Doak
c-doak@northwestern.edu
Connor Doak works on twentieth-century Russian and Soviet literature, with a particular focus on the representation of gender, sexuality and the family. His current project is a study of masculinity and fatherhood in late Soviet and post-Soviet culture. He gained his Master’s (with distinction) in European Literature at Oxford University, and a BA (first-class honours) in Russian and Spanish from Cambridge University.
He is also interested in second-language teaching and acquisition. He holds a Trinity College TESOL Certificate and has taught English as a Foreign Language in Russia, Latvia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Tatiana Filimonova
t-filimonova@northwestern.edu
Tanya received a BA in linguistics from Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg. She specialized in Germanic languages and subsequently taught at her alma mater, in St. Petersburg high-schools, and at Bard College, NY.
Tanya is currently a second-year student. Her interests include early Russian avant-garde poetry, especially Guro and Mayakovsky; the prose of Saltykov-Shchedrin, Sologub and Remizov; camp literature and memoirs of the blockade; and writings of the exile.
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Shlomit Gorin
s-gorin@northwestern.edu
Shlomit Gorin graduated from Northwestern University in 2000 with a major in Comparative Literature and a minor in Women’s Studies. After a six-year stint in San Francisco working in the not-for-profit sector and learning Russian, she returned to Northwestern in fall of 2006 and is currently a second-year graduate student. Her interests include the work of Bruno Schulz and Chekhov’s short stories, Russian Jewish literature and culture, and topics revolving around absurdity, freedom, responsibility, struggle and dissent as they are explored in 19th and 20th century Russian literature.
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Alish Kocz
a-koc@northwestern.edu
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Olga Livshin
o-livshin@northwestern.edu
B.A. in French/ B.S. in Communication Studies, summa cum laude, Boston University (2001)
MA in Slavic Languages and Literature, Northwestern University (2003)
Areas of Interest: Russian modernism and postmodernism, gender and sexuality, comparative avant-garde cultures, cultural studies, Franco-Russian literary relations.
Other interests: poetry, literary translation.
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Lisa Yountchi
l-yountchi@northwestern.edu
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Jan Peters
j-peters4@northwestern.edu
Areas of Interest: Lev Shestov and his influence on European (especially French) modernism and postmodernism (Bataille, Blanchot, Camus, Celan, Deleuze, Levinas), Jewish Philosophy/Kabbalah, magical realism (espially Borges, Rushdie, Carter), Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Platonov.
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Masha Shteynberg
m-shteynberg@northwestern.edu
Areas of Interest: Representation of the Crimea; representations of place, travel literature, landscape studies; Russian poetry; Russian art, book illustrations; Russian theater; French theater of the interwar period; Russian literature and history
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Kristina Toland
k-toland@northwestern.edu
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Nina A. Wieda
n-tyurina@northwestern.edu
Nina Wieda is a Ph.D. candidate in her fifth year of studies. Nina gained a B.A. in Linguistics from Pyatigorsk State University, Russia, and an MA in Nationalism Studies from Central European University, Hungary. At the moment, Nina is working on her dissertation titled “Aesthetic Wastefulness in Russian Literature: How the Russian Soul is Made,” which examines portrayals of wastefulness in the works of Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Eduard Limonov, and analyzes the role of wastefulness in defining Russian national identity.
Nina’s dissertation topic reflects her interest in nationalism and its connections to culture, and the relationships between literature and extra-literary life. Her second sphere of interest is South Slavic languages and cultures, and contemporary Serbian literature in particular.
As a hobby, Nina enjoys writing language textbooks. She has authored “Everything Russian Practice”, and co-authored “Russian for Dummies.”
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Recently minted Ph.D.s
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Maria Kisel
m-kisel@northwestern.edu
Areas of Interest: Humor in Dostoevsky; Blok's place in the Symbolist Movement; The Absurdist Play; Depictions of the Apocalypse in Literature; Polish Language and Culture; Gombrowicz and Form; Ukrainian Language and Culture
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Jenny Kaminer
j-kaminer@northwestern.edu
Areas of Interest: The bad mother in Russian literature; Russian theater and drama, especially of the 1920s; gender studies; Mayakovsky.
Ph.D. received 2006
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Elizabeth Sheynzon
E-mail: e-sheynzon@northwestern.edu
Areas of Interest: Immanuel Kant’s trends in Russian literature, specifically, in works by Gogol, Bulgakov and Pelevin.
Ph.D. received 2004
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