Graduate Student

Kathryn DeWaele

M.A. Slavic Languages & Literatures, UC Berkeley, 2016
B.A. Russian & French, Amherst College, 2013

Entered Berkeley program in 2014

Paper submitted with application to Berkeley:
“Infectious Words: Art and / as Adultery in Tolstoy and Zola”

Languages known and studied: French, Russian, German, OCS

Study Abroad:
2011: Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po); Paris, France
2013-14: Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS); Paris, France
Summer 2016: RusLanguage Program; Moscow, Russia

Katie Frevert

B.A. Russian and East European Studies and Creative Writing, Oberlin College, 2022

Entered Berkeley program 2023

Paper submitted with Berkeley application: “‘Kill the State in Yourself’: Totalitarianism and the Illiberal Dissidence of Egor Letov”

Languages known and studied: Russian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Old Church Slavic

Filippo Boscolo Gioachina

B.A. in Language, Civilisation, and the Science of Language: Russian and German Languages and Literatures, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2021

M.A. in European, American, and Postcolonial Languages and Literatures: Slavic and Balkan Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2024

Entered Berkeley program: Fall 2024

Paper submitted with application to Berkeley: Vladimir Klavdiyevich Arsenyev’s Literary Framework and its Orientalist Implications: Study on Travelogue in the Russian Far East from a Postcolonial Perspective

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Zachary Hicks

B.A. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, double major in Russian and Philosophy, 2009
M.A. University of Oregon, Comparative Literature, 2017
Entered Berkeley program in 2017

Paper submitted with application to Berkeley: “On the Physiognomy of History: Blok, Benjamin, Film”

Languages known and studied: Russian, German, Spanish, BCS

Conference participation: “Speculative Aesthetics, Speculative Politics” presented at New Materialisms and Economies of Excess, Emory University, September 29-October 1, 2016

“Blok...

Sabrina Jaszi

B.A. Russian and Comparative Literature, Oberlin College 2007
M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Florida 2013
M.S. Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2015
Entered Berkeley Program 2017

Paper submitted with Berkeley application: “‘Dimitrii Would Kill Dimitrii’”: An Ambivalent Antihero in Sumarokov’s Tragedy”

Languages known and studied: Russian, French, Uzbek

David Kurkovskiy

B.A. Yale University, majors in Russian and Eastern European Studies and Computer Science, 2017.

Yale Parker Huang Fellow and Visiting Student, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 2017-8.

Visiting Researcher (Młodzi Naukowcy program), Centre of East European Studies, University of Warsaw, 2018-9.

Entered Berkeley program in 2020

Paper submitted with application to Berkeley: “’Where is Raysn?’: Imagining an Early 20th Century Jewish-Belarusian Shared Neighborhood”

Languages known and studied: Belarusian, French, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, OCS (Reading)

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Sophie Lee

B.A in Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, 2018

Entered Berkeley program in 2019

Paper submitted alongside Berkeley application: “ Trainspotting: teleology, linearity and continuity in the [post] space of Zheleznaia doroga”

Languages known and studied: Russian, German, French, English, Korean, Kazakh

Elena Leonenko

B. Phil., St. Petersburg State University, Russian Language and Literature, 2011
M. Phil., St. Petersburg State University, History of Russian Literature, 2013
M.A., University of Oregon, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, 2021

Entered Berkeley Program in 2021

Paper submitted alongside Berkeley application: “Figures of Speech: Inscriptions as Intertitles in Man with a Movie Camera”

Languages known and studied: Russian, English, French, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Old Church Slavic

Conference participation:

“No one Expected Such a High Mood...