Ph.D. Harvard University (Slavic Languages and Literatures).
Teaching:
South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Macedonian, BCS [Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian]); literatures of the former Yugoslavia; Yugoslav cultural history; South Slavic linguistics; Balkan folkore; East Slavic folklore. Recent graduate seminars include Balkan linguistics, South Slavic sociolinguistics, Slavic folklore theory.
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Slavic Languages and Literatures).
Selected publications:
Books
V.F. Khodasevich, Pushkin i poety ego vremeni, vol. III. Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, forthcoming.
Vladislav Khodasevich, Sobranie sochinenii v vos’mi tomakh. Tom 2. Kritiki i publitsistika, 1905-1927. Co-edited with John Malmstad. Moscow: “Russkii put'”, 2010.
Vladislav Khodasevich, Sobranie sochinenii v vos’mi tomakh. T. 1. Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii. Co-...
Professor Matich has retired but remains actively involved in teaching and mentoring graduate students. She is currently teaching for the Slavic Department on recall for the 2017-18 academic year.
Teaching:
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature and culture (Dostoevsky, Modernism, Soviet society and culture, contemporary Russian literature), literature and the visual arts. Recent graduate seminars have included: Russian Modernism; Literature and Other Arts; The City in Literature.
Ph.D. Russian Academy of Performing Arts (theory and history of dramatic art).
Teaching:
Russian language; Russian language and culture for heritage speakers; Russian-English/English Russian translation; performing arts, theatre, and drama in Russia; Chekhov. Advanced readings in Russian literature (in the original).
Selected publications:
” ‘The Tragedy of a Russian Woman’: Anna Karenina in the Moscow Art Theatre, 1937″ in: Russian Literature, vol. 65, issue 4, 2009.
“The Sound of Distant Thunder: Chekhov and Chekhovian Subtexts in Tom...
Distinguished Professor Emerita of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Affiliate Professor Emerita of Linguistics
I am a historical typologist specializing in the languages of the western steppe periphery, especially Slavic and Nakh-Daghestanian (central Caucasus). My work also deals with large-scale Eurasian and worldwide linguistic distributions and chronologically with the whole Quaternary. I have an ongoing documentation program on Ingush and Chechen (Nakh-Daghestanian), have published dictionaries of both languages and a comprehensive grammar of Ingush, and am expanding and annotating very large spoken corpora of both languages. Together with Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich) I co-developed...
Distinguished Professor Emerita, Professor of the Graduate School
Professor Paperno has retired but remains actively involved in teaching graduate and undergraduate courses and mentoring graduate students.
Teaching:
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. The Russian and European Novel in the 19th and 20th centuries. Discourse analysis and close reading.
Education: M.A. (Russian language and literature) Tartu University. M.A. (Psychology) Stanford University. Ph.D. (Slavic languages and literatures) Stanford University.
Selected publications:
Books
Always Under Siege: Olga Freidenberg's Diary-Theory and...
Since his retirement in 2008, Professor Timberlake has been teaching at Columbia University. He continues to advise graduate students who began working under his supervision.
Education:
Ph.D. Harvard University (Linguistics)
Teaching:
Synchronic and historical Slavic and Russian linguistics; Slavic culture; Czech literature
