Russian Graduate and Expanded Graduate Faculty

Experimental classrooms. Contemporary Russian issues.

Folk and popular culture. Gender studies.

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 Russian literature, cinema, sexual politics, and revolutionary thought. Porter’s first book, Economies of Feeling: Russian...

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

20th century Russian literature, art, and film.