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Interdisciplinary Themes

The Slavic Department faculty have unique linkages that allow the study of special areas across disciplines. Note, however, that these are not degree concentrations, majors, or minors.

Russian Intellectual History

  • Prof. Maria Carlson (SLL): Russian culture, intellectual history, 18th- and 20th-c. Russian literature, Silver Age; occult and speculative philosophies
  • Prof. Edith W. Clowes (SLL): 19th- and 20th-c. Russian literature and culture, Russian philosophy, intellectual history, comparative literature, especially German and Russian, theory
  • Prof. William J. Comer (SLL): Russian culture, literature, and religious sectarianism
  • Prof. Eve Levin (History): Gender, sexuality, popular culture, Orthodox Christianity, and medicine, focusing on Russia and the Balkans
  • Prof. Ani Kokoboo (SLL): Nineteenth-century Russian literature, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushki
  • Prof. Renee Perelmutter (Jewish Studies, SLL): Yiddish and Jewish literature in Russia and the former Soviet Union.

Slavic civilization in the former Habsburg and Ottoman Empires

  • Prof. Stephen M. Dickey (SLL): BCS language, literature, and culture, esp. Bosnia and Croatia
  • Prof. Marc L. Greenberg (SLL): BCS, Slovene, Slavic prehistory, language and nationalism
  • Ms. Marta Pirnat-Greenberg (SLL): BCS, Slovene language
  • Prof. Ivana Radovanovic (Anthropology): Slavic prehistory and its relationship to Slavic nationalisms
  • Prof. Nathan D. Wood (History): 19th and 20th-Cent. Eastern Europe, Poland, modern Europe, urban and cultural history, the popular press
  • Prof. Svetlana P. Vassileva-Karagyozova (SLL): Polish and Czech language, comparative Slavic literatures, Baroque in Orthodox Slavic literatures, 20th c. Polish and Czech prose

Slavic and East European folklore, prehistory and the Indo-European context

Jewish culture in Eastern Europe

  • Prof. Renee Perelmutter (SLL): Yiddish language and Jewish secular culture and literature in Eastern Europe
  • Prof. Rebecca Rovit (Theatre, Jewish Studies): Cultural heritage of the Holocaust (1933-1945)

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