Russian Faculty

Vampiric tendencies of the Russian "superfluous man."

Experimental classrooms. Contemporary Russian issues.

20th and 21st-centuries Russian literature. Soviet and post-Soviet culture. Postmodernism.

Women's studies. Gender images in recent Russian culture. Cultural and gender paradoxes that occur in Russian media.

Folk and popular culture. Gender studies.

Bio Jillian Porter holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College. Her research explores intersections between Russian economic history and cultural production from the late 18 th century to the present. At CU, she teaches courses on 19 th -century Russian literature and Russian/Soviet cinema. Porter’s first book, Economies of Feeling:...

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

Lev Tolstoy; narratology; impersonal narrative genres; animals in philosophy, literature, television and film; environmental criticism; and science and mathematics in literature.

Meghan Vicks holds a PhD and an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a BA in Literary Studies from Middlebury College. Her research focuses on the concept of nothing and its relationship to narrative in twentieth-century literature, as well as on the relationship between memory and literature in contemporary fiction. She has taught a variety of literature, culture, and language courses at CU, including courses...