Russian Faculty

The vampire in popular culture and literature; connections between Nordic and Russian cultures.

Russian language pedagogy; experimental classrooms.

History and culture of the Space Race; Russian language, online pedagogy and intercultural communicative competence; Russian literature: 20th-century, science fiction and women's prose; Contemplative neuroscience in education; performing arts (music, theater, dance) and performance studies; literary canon and national mythmaking.

Russian and Bulgarian folk and popular culture; ethnographic methods in humanities research; gender studies; memoir, diary, and personal story; folk music and dance revival; minority studies; nationalism.

Russian and Eastern European twentieth and twenty-first-century culture; Soviet theory and materialist aesthetics, their influence on Russian literature of the 1920s-1960s, and their afterlives in contemporary Eastern European political art and culture; Historical Poetics; prison writing; feminism; post-classical anarchism; history of Soviet pedagogical experiments.

Russian language and literature; contemporary Russian culture; post-Soviet documentary cinema and theater; film, media, and performance studies.

Russophone literature from the late 18th century to the present; Russian and Soviet cinema; Dostoevsky’s legacies in African American literature and world cinema; international socialist and feminist movements; LGBTQ studies; everyday life studies; and environmental humanities

History of American-Russian relations; history of sport and the cold war; interpersonal and intergenerational communication; lexicology, sociolinguistics and second language acquisition.