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Ronald Vroon | Professor and Chair,
20th-century Russian poetry (Symbolism, Futurism, the Peasant School); Baroque and Neoclassicism (Polotsky, Sumarokov, Derzhavin) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Georgiana Galateanu | Continuing Lecturer,
Romanian language and culture, Romanian for heritage speakers, women and literature in Eastern Europe, foreign language pedagogy. 

Michael Heim | Professor,
Czech, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Russian language and culture, translation theory and practice. Literary translator

Vyacheslav V. Ivanov | Professor,
Slavic, Baltic, and Indo-European linguistics, mythology and folklore, Russian literature and culture, languages of Los Angeles. 

Olga Kagan | Professor,
Coordinator of the Russian Language Program and Undergraduate Advisor Director of the UCLA Center for World Languages and the National Heritage Language Resource Center Heritage language education; foreign language teaching

Emily Klenin  | Professor,
19th-century Russian literature (Fet and his circle), metrics, verse theory, Russo-German cultural ties, Russian language history, Old Russian, Church Slavonic, IT for poets. 

Roman Koropeckyj  | Professor,
Polish and Ukrainian language, literature and culture, Romanticism, anthropology and literary theory.

Susan Kresin  | Continuing Lecturer,
Czech and Russian language pedagogy, contrastive studies of contemporary Czech and Russian, focusing on definiteness, aspect, discourse. 

Anna Kudyma | Continuing Lecturer,
Russian and Ukrainian language and culture. Russian for heritage speakers, language pedagogy, Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL).

Gail Lenhoff | Professor,
Medieval and 17th-century Russian literature and culture (saints’ lives, history writing, rhetoric, art), Russo-Tatar relations, political theology. 

David MacFadyen | Professor,
Post-war Russian literature, Soviet cinema and animation, popular entertainment, the "small stage" (èstrada) and song.
Twentieth-century philosophy, literary theory.

Viktorija Lejko-Lacan | Continuing Lecturer,
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language and culture, foreign and second language teaching methodology, BCS for heritage speakers, women’s studies and literature in the countries of Southern Europe. 

Melinda Borbely | Lecturer,
Hungarian language, literature and culture, Hungarian for heritage speakers, folklore in Transylvania. 

Boris Dralyuk | Lecturer,
Nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and popular culture; Russian language; Polish language and literature. Literary translation.

 

  

Marianna Chodorowska-Pilch | Lecturer

Daria Khitrova | Visiting Assistant Professor

 

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