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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. Kerry Sabbag (SLL): 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

    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 folklore, prehistory and the Indo-European context

  • Prof. Maria Carlson (SLL): Slavic folklore and religion
  • Prof. Marc L. Greenberg (SLL): Slavic historical linguistics and comparative Indo-European linguistics
  • Prof. Ivana Radovanovic (Anthropology): European archaeology

    Jewish culture in Eastern Europe

  • Prof. Jonathan Boyarin (Religious Studies): Jewish Studies, Jewish culture, revaluation of Diaspora in contemporary Jewish life; Polish Jews in emigration
  • Prof. Sergey Dolgopolskii (Religious Studies): Jewish studies, Talmud, interpretation, and Jewish thought
  • Prof. Yiddish Language Person (TBA): Yiddish language and Jewish secular culture and literature in Eastern Europe