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.
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
