Elena Kostoglodova

Elena Kostoglodova

Teaching Associate Professor
Russian Program
Russian language pedagogy; experimental classrooms.
Laura Osterman

Laura Olson Osterman (Laura J. Olson)

Professor • Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies • Undergraduate Faculty Advisor
Russian Program
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.
Jillian Porter

Jillian Porter

Associate Professor • Director of Russian Graduate Studies
Russian Program
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
Artemi Romanov

Artemi Romanov

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

Rima Salys

Professor Emerita • Expanded Graduate Faculty
Russian Program
20th century Russian literature, art, and film.