Graduate Program Alumni
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Anton Svynarenko
Ph.D., 2021
“Queer Childhood in Russian Modernism”
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, University of South Alabama
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Andrzej Brylak
Ph.D., 2020
“Leo Lipski: Disabling Modernity”
Current Position: Post-Doc in Polish Studies, University of Southern California
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Tetyana Dzyadevych
Ph.D., 2019
“Political Subjectivities in Russia and Ukraine through the Lens of Post-Soviet Literature”
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Literature, The New College of Florida
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Agnieszka Jezyk
Ph.D., 2019
“Insatiable Appetite: Excessive Matter in Bruno Jasienski’s Poems”
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Polish Language, Literature and Culture, University of Toronto
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Lucas Plazek
MA, 2018
Current Position: PhD program in Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of California, Berkeley
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Volha Seliazniova
MA, 2015
Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, 2021
Current Position: Dean’s Postdoctoral Scholar in Slavic, Florida State University
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Serhii Tereshchenko
MA, 2015
Current Position: PhD program in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University
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Michael Slager
Ph.D., 2015
“Russia’s Orient: Imperial Fictions and the Politics of Identity.”
Current Position: Lecturer in the Department of English, Loyola University and Lecturer at UIC’s Honors College
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Yelena Zotova
Ph.D., 2014
“Envy as an Object of Artistic Representation in Russian Modernist Prose.”
Current Position: Associate Teaching Professor of Russian, Penn State University
Book: Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia: Envy and Authorship in the 1920s (Lexington, 2020).
Shortlisted for the 2021 AATSEEL Best Book in Literary Studies