2020s
Caroline Lemak Brickman, Ph.D., 2020 – Dissertation: The Modernist Russian Lyric Thinks Through Classical Myth
Brian Egdorf, Ph.D., 2021 – Dissertation: The Psychological Novel and Science of the Brain: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the Narrative of Consciousness
Helena Kernan, M.A., 2021
David Parker, Ph.D., 2021 – Dissertation: Writing Living People: The Promise and Inadequacy of Mimetic Characterization in Late Soviet Literature
Emma Santelmann, M.A., 2021
Emily Laskin, Ph.D., 2021
Dominick Lawton, Ph.D., 2022 – Dissertation: Revolts of Things: The Poetics of Materialism in Russian Revolutionary Literature
Kathryn Pribble, Ph.D., 2022 – Dissertation: Multiplicity and Metaform: Late Russian Romanticism as Literary Laboratory
Christina Schwartz, Ph.D. Candidate, 2023
Lily Scott, Ph.D., 2023 – Dissertation: The Struggle with Nature: Socialist Realism in the Soviet Countryside
Jane Shamaeva, M.A., 2023
2010s
Polina Dimova, Ph.D., 2010
Lucas (Luke) Stratton, Ph.D. Candidate, 2010
Christine Trychin (neé Schick), 2010
Katya Balter, Ph.D. Candidate, 2011
Traci Lindsey, Ph.D., 2011 – Dissertation: Bulgarian Verbs of Motion: Slavic Verbs in a Balkan Context
Julia McAnallen, Ph.D., 2011 – Dissertation: The History of Predicative Possession in Slavic: Internal Development vs. Language Contact
Elena Nelson, Ph.D., 2011 – Dissertation: Tradition and Innovation in Russian Church Slavonic Hymnography
Jillian Porter, Ph.D., 2011 – Dissertation: Money and Mad Ambition: Economies of Russian Literature 1830-1850
Kathryn Schild, Ph.D., 2011 – Dissertation: Between Moscow and Baku: National Literatures at the 1934 Congress of Soviet Writers
Alyson Tapp, Ph.D., 2011 – Dissertation: From the Elegy to the End of the Novel: Literary Experiences of Emotion
Cameron Wiggins, Ph.D., 2011 – Dissertation: The Drama in Disguise: Dramatic Modes of Narration and Textual Structure in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel
Laura Mieka Erley, Ph.D., 2012 – Dissertation: Reclaiming Native Soil: Cultural Mythologies of Soil in Russia and Its Eastern Borderlands from the 1840s to the 1930s
Anastasia Kayiatos, Ph.D., 2012 – Dissertation: Silence and Alterity in Russia after Stalin, 1955-1975
Sarah Ruth Lorenz, Ph.D., 2012 – Dissertation: Visionary Mimesis: Imitation and Transformation in the German Enlightenment and Russian Realism
Jessica Merrill, Ph.D., 2012 – Dissertation: The Role of Folkloristics in the Development of Russian Formalist and Czech Structuralist Literary Theory
Susanna Merrill, M.A., 2012
Irina Kogel, Ph.D. Candidate, 2013
Katy Sosnak, Ph.D., 2013 – Dissertation: Unmasking the Invisible: Russian and Japanese Cultural Exchanges from 1890 to 1917
Piper Wheeler, M.A., 2013
Daniel Brooks, Ph.D., 2014 – Dissertation: Russian Literary Portraiture in the Twentieth Century: Collecting and Re-Collecting Lichnosti in Criticism and Memoir
Erin Coyne, Ph.D., 2014 – Dissertation: Coming Down From the Mountain: Dialect Contact and Convergence in Contemporary Hutsulshchyna
Ian David, M.A., 2014
Tony H. Lin, Ph.D., 2014 – Dissertation: Myth and Appropriation: Fryderyk Chopin in the Context of Russian and Polish Literature and Culture
Malgorzata Szajbel-Keck, Ph.D., 2015 – Dissertation: Secondary Predication in Polish
Megan Barickman, M.A., 2015
Cammeron Girvin, Ph.D., 2016 – Dissertation: How to Build a 'Folk' Song: Socialist Song Texts and Folkloric Language in Bulgarian and South Slavic
Zachary Johnson, Ph.D., 2016 – Dissertation: Desire, Event, Vision: Forms of Intersubjectivity in the 19th-Century Russian Novel
Chloe Kitzinger, Ph.D., 2016 – Dissertation: Illusion and Instrument: Problems of Mimetic Characterization in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
Josefina Lundblad-Janjic, Ph.D., 2017 – Dissertation: Writer or Witness: Problems of Varlam Shalamov’s Late Prose and Dramaturgy
Isobel Palmer, Ph.D., 2018 – Dissertation: Vital Signs: Rhythm, Image, and Voice in Russian Modernist Poetry and Theory 1905-1924
Thomas H.J. Dyne, Ph.D., 2019 – Dissertation: Bog znaet: The Ethics of Omniscience in Russian Narrative, 1845-1870
Jennifer Flaherty, Ph.D., 2019 – Dissertation: Forms of the Peasant: Aesthetics and Social Thought in Russian Realism, 1847-1877
Brendan Hamilton, M.A., 2019
Matthew Kendall, Ph.D., 2019 – Dissertation: Sound Works: Model Listeners in Soviet Art, 1929-1941
2000s
Lilya Kaganovsky, Ph.D., 2000
Ann Elizabeth McDevitt Miller, Ph.D., 2000 – Dissertation: The Struggle to Create the New Man: The Literary Criticism and Career of Vladimir Friche
Sarah Shull, Ph.D., 2000 – Dissertation: The Experience of Space: The Privileged Role of Spatial Prefixation in Czech and Russian
Anne Hruska, Ph.D., 2001 – Dissertation: Infected Families: Outsider Figures in the Works of Leo Tolstoy
Ellen Langer, Ph.D., 2001 – Dissertation: Individuality and Grammar: Instrumental Singular Variation in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literary Prose
Sabine Stoll, Ph.D., 2001 – Dissertation: The Acquisition of Russian Aspect
Konstantine Klioutchkine, Ph.D., 2002 – Dissertation: Russian Literature and the Press, 1860-1914
Karin Larsen, Ph.D., 2002 – Dissertation: The Evolution of the System of Long and Short Adjectives in Medieval Slavic and Old Russian
José Alaniz, Ph.D., 2003
Christopher Caes, Ph.D., 2004 – Dissertation: Historical Contingency and Conceptions of the Self in Stalinist-era and Post-Stalinist Polish Literature and Film, 1950-1960
Ingrid Kleespies, Ph.D., 2004 – Dissertation: Nomad Nation, Wandering Writer: Writing, Travel, and National Identity in Russian and Polish Literature (From the Late Eighteenth Century to the End of the Nineteenth Century)
Ann Marsh-Flores, Ph.D., 2004 – Dissertation: Literary Collaboration and the Rise of the Russian Woman Writer: Or, How Zinaida Volkonskaia Learned To Write in Tsarist Russia
Lillian Vallee, Ph.D., 2004 – Dissertation: Bear with a Cross: Primordial Tradition in the Work of Czeslaw Milosz
Boris Wolfson, Ph.D., 2004 – Dissertation: Staging the Soviet Self: Literature, Theater, and Stalinist Culture, 1929-1939
Patrick Henry, Ph.D., 2006 – Dissertation: Metarealism and the Question of Russian Postmodernism
Polina Barskova, Ph.D., 2006 – Dissertation: Enchanted by the Spectacle of Death: Forms of the End in Leningrad Culture (1917-1934)
Michelle Viise, Ph.D., 2006 – Dissertation: The Culture of the Christian Orthodox Printing House in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Poland-Lithuania
Anne Dwyer, Ph.D., 2007 – Dissertation: Improvising Empire: Literary Accounts from the Russian and Austrian Borderlands, 1862-1923
Magdalena Kay, Ph.D., 2007 – Dissertation: Knowing One’s Place: Negotiating Belonging and Identity in the Poetry of Adam Zagajewski, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney and Julia Hartwig
Michael Kunichika, Ph.D., 2007 – Dissertation: The Penchant for the Primitive: Archaeology, Ethnography, and the Aesthetics of Russian Modernism
Stiliana Milkova, Ph.D., 2007 – Dissertation: Sightseeing: Writing Vision in Slavic Travel Narratives
Victoria Somoff, Ph.D., 2007 – Dissertation: From Authority to Author: Russian Prose on the Eve of the Novel, 1820-1850
Jonathan Craig Stone, Ph.D., 2007 – Dissertation: Conceptualizing “Symbolism”: Institutions, Publications, Readers, and the Russian Propagation of an Idea
Renee Perelmutter, Ph.D., 2008 – Dissertation: Referential Negation: Syntax/Semantics of Negative Constructions and Their Interaction with Narrative Structures in Modern Russian
Roy Chan, Ph.D., 2009 – Dissertation: The Edge of Knowing: Dreams and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature
Boris Maslov, Ph.D., 2009 – Dissertation: Pindaric Epinikion and the Evolution of Poetic Genres in Archaic Greece
1990s
Alexis Eugene Emerson, Ph.D., 1990 – Dissertation: Alexandr Blok and the Mother-Figure
Jennifer Irene Hudin, Ph.D., 1990 – Dissertation: Passive Constructions in Russian
Anthony Vanchu, Ph.D., 1990 – Dissertation: Yurii Olesha’s Artistic Prose and Utopian Mythologies of the 1920s
Francis Butler, Ph.D., 1991 – Dissertation: Images of Missionaries and Innovative Rulers in East Slavic Literature from Early Times Through the Reign of Peter the Great
Conor Anthony Daly, Ph.D., 1991 – Dissertation: Linguistic Change and Cultural Paradigms: The Development of Russian Scholarly Prose (18th-20th Centuries)
Allen James Kuharski, Ph.D., 1991 – Dissertation: The Theatre of Witold Gombrowicz
Eric Naiman, Ph.D., 1991 – Dissertation: Sexuality and Utopia: The Debate in the Soviet 1920s
Mary Foster Peabody, Ph.D., 1991 – Dissertation: Traditional and Individualistic Aspects of the Petitions of the Archpriest Avvakum
Paul Eric Carlson, Ph.D., 1992 – Dissertation: Some Functions of Poetic Diction in A. K. Tolstoy’s “Smert’ Ioanna Groznogo”
William J. Comer, Ph.D., 1992 – Dissertation: The Russian Religious Dissenters and the Literary Culture of the Symbolist Generation
Celia Leckey, Ph.D., 1992 – Dissertation: Relative Clauses in Medieval Russian Texts
Anne Nesbet, Ph.D., 1992 – Dissertation: The Aesthetics of Violence in Russian and East German Literature
Brian Horowitz, Ph.D., 1993 – Dissertation: M. O. Gershenzon and Intellectual Life of Russia’s Silver Age
Margaret Kabalin Leckey, Ph.D., 1993 – Dissertation: Vjekoslav Babukic: His Role as Linguist During the Illyrian Movement
Torsten Martin Gustaf Lofstedt, Ph.D., 1993 – Dissertation: Russian Legends About Forest Spirits in the Context of Northern European Mythology
Ruth Rischin, Ph.D., 1993 – Dissertation: Semën Iushkevich (1868-1927): The Man and His Art
David Mohammed Benjamin Lyle Herman, Ph.D., 1993 – Dissertation: Representing Otherness: Urban Poverty in Russian Literature from Karamzin to Nekrasov
Neil Bermel, Ph.D., 1994 – Dissertation: Context and the Lexicon in the Development of Russian Aspect
Susan C. Kresin, Ph.D., 1994 – Dissertation: Third Person Reference in Russian and Czech
David Powelstock, Ph.D., 1994 – Dissertation: Poet as Officer and Oracle: Mikhail Lermontov’s Aesthetic Mythology
Mary Rees, Ph.D., 1994 – Dissertation: Introductions of New Characters in Russian Memoirs: Discourse Constraints on Word Order
Melissa Frazier, Ph.D., 1995 – Dissertation: Frames of the Imagination: Gogol’s “Arabeski” and the Romantic Question of Genre
David Montgomery, Ph.D., 1995 – Dissertation: Ivan Bunin and the Persistence of Memory: Recurrence, Mutability, and Desire in Three Major Texts
Shawn Kate Elliott, Ph.D., 1997 – Dissertation: The Aesthetics of Russian Folk Religion and The Brothers Karamazov
David Matthews, Ph.D., 1997 – Dissertation: Case Variation in Contemporary Standard Russian
Grace Morsberger, Ph.D., 1997 – Dissertation: The Russian Woman Writer in the Salon: Issues of Gender and Literary Space
Evgenii Bernshtein, Ph.D., 1998 – Dissertation: Western Models of Sexuality in Russian Modernism
Avram Brown, Ph.D., 1998 – Dissertation: Modernist Apocrypha: Contexts of the Gospel Plot in Russian Modernism
Keith Goeringer, Ph.D., 1998 – Dissertation: The Syntax and Semantics of Adverbs in Russian: Scope, Orientation, and Word Order
William Nickell, Ph.D., 1998 – Dissertation: Tolstoy in the Public Domain: His Death as a National Narrative
Molly W. Wesling, Ph.D., 1998 – Dissertation: The Russian Representation of Napoleon: A Cultural Mythology
Matthew Baerman, Ph.D., 1999 – Dissertation: Free to Fixed Stress in Slavic
Margherita DiCeglie, Ph.D., 1999 – Dissertation: The Fate of Humanism in Fin-de-siècle Russia: Viacheslav Ivanov’s Philosophical Speculations and Poetic Vision. The Dialogue of Poetry and Philosophy
Rob Wessling, Ph.D., 1999 – Dissertation: Semyon Nadson and the Cult of the Tubercular Poet
1980s
Anthony Anemone, Ph.D., 1985 – Dissertation: Konstantin Vaginov and the Leningrad Avant-Garde: 1921-1934
Lenore Grenoble, Ph.D., 1986
Peter Scotto, Ph.D., 1987 – Dissertation: The Image of Pushkin in the Works of Marina Tsvetaeva
Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Ph.D., 1987 – Dissertation: The Russian Pseudo-autobiography and the Creation of Russian Childhood
Irina Gutkin, Ph.D., 1989 – Dissertation: The Novel of Socialist Realism as a Phenomenon of Literary Evolution
1970s
William Craft Brumfield, Ph.D., 1973
Johanna Nichols, Ph.D., 1973 – Dissertation: The Balto-Slavic Predicate Instrumental: A Problem in Diachronic Syntax
1960s
Robert P. Hughes, Ph.D., 1969
Michael S. Flier, Ph.D., 1968
Helen S. Schulak, Ph.D., 1967