Regular Faculty

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Maria Carlson Positions: Professor and Associate Chair; Courtesy Professor of History; Director of Graduate Studies Degree: PhD, Indiana Areas of specialization: Russian culture, intellectual history, 18th- and 20th-c. Russian literature, Silver Age; occult and speculative philosophies; folklore, mythology, and neo-paganism. Further information, Vita: RTF, PDF Contact: mcarlson (at) ku.edu Edith W. Clowes Position: Professor, Director of the Center for Russian, East-European, and Eurasian Studies Degree: PhD, Yale Areas of specialization: 19th- and 20th-c. Russian literature and culture, Russian philosophy, intellectual history, comparative literature, especially German and Russian, theory Further information, Vita: RTF, PDF Contact: eclowes (at) ku.edu William J. Comer Positions: Associate Professor; Russian-pedagogy coordinator; Degree: PhD, Berkeley Areas of specialization: Russian language, culture, pedagogy, and literature Further information, Vita: RTF, PDF Contact: wjcomer (at) ku.edu Stephen M. Dickey Position: Associate Professor Degree: PhD, Indiana Areas of specialization: Russian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language and linguistics, aspectology, cognitive linguistics Further information, Vita: RTF, PDF Contact: smd (at) ku.edu Marc L. Greenberg Positions: Chair and Professor; Courtesy Professor of Linguistics; Co-editor of Slovenski jezik/Slovene Linguistic Studies Degree: PhD, UCLA Areas of specialization: Structure and history of Russian and other Slavic languages, historical linguistics and dialectology Further information, Vita: RTF, PDF Contact: mlg (at) ku.edu

Stephen J. Parker Positions: Professor; Editor of The Nabokovian Degree: PhD, Cornell Areas of specialization: 19th- and 20th-c. Russian prose fiction, Nabokov Further information, Vita: RTF, PDF Contact: sjp (at) ku.edu Renee Perelmutter Positions: (Beg. Aug. 08) Asst. Prof. with joint appointment in Jewish Studies Program Degree: PhD, UC Berkeley (May 08) Areas of specialization: Yiddish and Slavic morphosyntax and pragmatics, general and Jewish folklore, Jewish culture Further information, Vita: RTF, PDF Contact: rperel (at) ku.edu Kerry Sabbag Positions: Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies/Honors Coordinator Degree: PhD, Brown Areas of specialization: 19th c. Russian prose, connections between fiction, religion, and art, the history and culture of Eastern Christianity, Russian and European Romanticsm, and the history of fame Further information, Vita: RTF, PDF Contact: ksabbag (at) ku.edu Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova Position: Assistant Professor Degree: PhD, Kliment Ochridski U., Sofia Areas of specialization: Polish and Czech language, language teaching methodology, comparative Slavic literatures, Baroque in Orthodox Slavic literatures, 20th c. Polish and Czech prose Further information, Vita: RTF, PDF Contact: svk (at) ku.edu

Lecturers

Kelly Knickmeier-Cummings Position: Lecturer 2008-09 academic year Degree: KU, ABD Areas of specialization: Russian language, Slavic folklore Further information Contact: kells (at) ku.edu Marta Pirnat-Greenberg Position: Lecturer Degree: BA, University of Ljubljana Areas of specialization: Slovene, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian languages Further information, Vita: RTF, PDF Contact: mpg (at) ku.edu

Irina A. Six Position: Lecturer Degree: PhD, Russian University of Friendship of Peoples, Moscow Areas of specialization: Russian Language, business culture, Post-Soviet communication Further information, Vita: RTF, PDF Contact: irinasix (at) ku.edu Abbas Karakaya Position: Lecturer Degree: ABD, Indiana University Areas of specialization: Turkish language and literature Further information, Vita: RTF, PDF Contact: abbaskarakaya (at) ku.edu Yaroslava Tsiovkh Position: Lecturer Degree: PhD, Kyiv Areas of specialization: Ukrainian language, culture, literature and pedagogy Further information, Vita: RTF, PDF Contact: tsiovkh (at) ku.edu

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