Faculty

Djordje Popović

Assistant Professor
Teaching:

20th- and 21st-century South Slavic literature and cultural history; Yugoslav modernism; philosophy and literature; critical and social theory; literature of exile.

Education:

Ph.D. University of Minnesota (Comparative Literature)

Publications:

The Subject in Palanka: The Philosophy of Parochialism and the Work of Immanent Critique.” Parochialism in Translation, special...

Antje Postema

Continuing Lecturer
Teaching:

Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language, Reading and Composition.

Education:

Ph.D. University of Chicago (Slavic Languages & Literatures)

B.A. University of Chicago (Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities)

Selected publications:

“ ‘Read and Remember’: Ozren Kebo’s Sarajevo for Beginners as Ironic Guidebook and Narrative Memorial.” In Post-Yugoslav Constellations. Ed. Stijn Vervaet and Vlad Beronja (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016).

“My Son I Will Give – My Myth I Will Not: Lineage and Legendary Identity in Donchev’s Time of...

Harsha Ram

Associate Professor
Research and teaching interests:

The Russian and European Enlightenment, romanticism and modernism

Literary and political history of Georgia and the Caucasus region

Russian imperial history and post-colonial studies

Comparative modernisms and modernities
Theories of world literature
Literary and political theory

Geopoetics and the environmental humanities

Urban studies

Education:

Ph.D. , Yale University (Comparative Literature).
M.Phil, Yale University (Comparative Literature).
B.A. Honours, University of Sydney (Italian).
B.A....

Eva Szoke

Continuing Lecturer
Teaching:

Introductory Hungarian (HUNGARI 1A and HUNGARI 1B)
Readings in Hungarian (HUNGARI 100)

Education:

M.A. Hungarian Language and Literature. Eotvos Lorand University of Arts and Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
M.A. Education. Eotvos Lorand University of Arts and Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
Postgraduate Diploma. Journalism. Hungarian School of Journalism, MÚOSZ. Budapest, Hungary.
Hungarian State Exam Board Certification. Hungarian Language and Literature. Budapest, Hungary.
ACTFL OPI Tester Full Certification in Hungarian. American Council on the Teaching of...

Edward Tyerman

Associate Professor
Teaching:

20th- and 21st-century Russian literature; early Soviet culture; late-Soviet and post-Soviet literature and film; Russia and East Asia; literary theory. Recent graduate seminars include “Facts and Fictions: Factographic Strategies in Russian Prose.”

Education:

Ph.D., Columbia University (Russian and Comparative Literature).
M.Phil, Columbia University (Russian and Comparative Literature—Chinese).
M.A., School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London (Russian Studies).
B.A., University of Oxford (Classics and Modern Languages—Ancient Greek...

Oksana Willis

Lecturer, Russian Language Coordinator
Education:

MA, PhD – Lomonosov Moscow State University

Professional interests:

In language pedagogy: teaching culture in Russian language courses, teaching Russian through literature, art, and performative arts, transformative teaching and learning, student autonomy and motivation, music in Russian language class, project-based instruction, community-based instruction, and task-based instruction, intensive immersion language programs.

Teacher training practices and principles.

Vladimir Nabokov studies, performative arts, flowers...

Katarzyna Zacha

Continuing Lecturer
Teaching: Introductory Polish 25A and 25B Continuing Polish 115A and 115B Polish Literature Education: M.A. Polish Language and Literature, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland M.A. Counseling Psychology, Holy Names University, Oakland, California