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Faculty & Staff

 

Professors

Anna Lisa Crone, Russian Literature-- on leave indefinitely
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1975
Foster 417, 702-7027
acrone@uchicago.edu
Victor Friedman, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Balkan and Slavic Linguistics
Graduate Advisor for Slavic Linguistics
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1975
Wieboldt 405, 702-0732
vfriedm@uchicago.edu
Lenore Grenoble, Carl Darling Buck Professor, Slavic Linguistic Associate Chair
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1986
Foster 416, 702-0927
grenoble@uchicago.edu
Yuri Tsivian, Film History; Acting-Chairman 2006-2007
Ph.D., Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema, Leningrad Kandidat Iskusstvovedenia, 1984
On Leave, 2007-2008
ytsivian@uchicago.edu

Associate Professors

Robert Bird, Russian Literature Slavic Department Chairman
Foster 405, 702-8195
Ph.D., Yale University, 1999
bird@uchicago.edu
Bożena Shallcross, Polish Literature
Graduate Advisor for Interdisciplinary Studies
Foster 402, 702-7734
Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Warsaw, 1983 bshallcr@uchicago.edu
Malynne Sternstein, Czech Literature
Graduate Advisor for Literature
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1996
Foster 403, 834-0894
msternst@uchicago.edu

Assistant Professors

Lina Steiner, Russian Literature
Ph.D., Yale University, 2004
Foster 407, 702-4015
lsteiner@uchicago.edu
Susan Larsen, Russian Literature and Culture
Visiting Assistant Professor, 2007-2008
Foster 409, 834-2179

Senior Lecturers

Steven Clancy, West Slavic and Russian
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 2000
Gates-Blake 438, 702-8567
sclancy@uchicago.edu
Joanna Kurowska-Mlynarczyk, Polish
M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1997, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006
Foster 410, 834-2180
kurowska@sbcglobal.net

Please click here for a CV (DOC).

Valentina Pichugin, Russian
Ph.D., Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1990
Foster 401, 702-7739
vpichugi@uchicago.edu

Lecturers

Angelina Ilieva, Balkan and S. Slavic literature
Visiting lecturer, 2007-2008
Foster 411, 834-2179
ilievaa@uchicago.edu
Frida Lutskaya-Litvak, Russian and Ukrainian
Candidate Sci., Leningrad State University, 1962
flutskal@uchicago.edu
Nada Petković-Djordjević, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
M.A., University of Belgrade, Belgrade, 1978
Foster 410, 702-0035
petkovic@uchicago.edu
(CV)

Associated Faculty

Richard Hellie, Russian History,
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1965
hell@uchicago.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Howard I. Aronson, Professor Emeritus of Slavic and General Linguistics
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1961
hia5@uchicago.edu
Bill J. Darden, Chair of the Department and Professor of Linguistics and Slavic Languages
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1973
bdarden@uchicago.edu
Milton Ehre, Russian Literature
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1970
mehre@uchicago.edu
Norman W. Ingham, Russian Literature
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1963
ningham@uchicago.edu
Samuel Sandler
Ph.D., University of Lodz 1951
ssan@uchicago.edu
Frantisek Svejkovsky,
Ph.D., Charles University 1955
fsvejkov@uchicago.edu
Edward Wasiolek
Ph.D., Harvard University 1955
ewasiole@uchicago.edu

Associated Emeritus Faculty

Paul Friedrich, Anthropology,
Ph.D., Yale University, 1957
pfriedri@uchicago.edu
Eric P. Hamp, Linguistics,
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1954
ehamp@uchicago.edu
Photo of Victor A. Friedman © Randall Chase.