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RECENT GRADUATES
2015

Maria Carone, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Friede Fichtner, Washington University, St. Louis

Sarah Korpi-Wiest, UW-Madison, Division of Continuing Studies

Kelsey White, University of California, Santa Barbara

2014

Rose Rittenhouse, University of Chicago Press

Jack Davis, Truman State University, MO (previously University of West Georgia)

William Waltz, Grand Rapids, MI

2013

Angela Bagwell, UW-Madison Testing & Evaulation Services

Joshua Bousquette, University of Georgia, Athens

Katie Chapman, University of Georgia, Athens

Derek Drake, Saginaw Valley State University, MI

Ben Frey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Kristopher Imbrigotta, University of Puget Sound, WA

Ben Parrot, Ohio University, Athens, OH

Stephani Richards-Wilson, George Williams College of Aurora University, WI

2012

Todd Ehresmann, Berlin, Germany

Elliott Gougeon, Health Specialist, PA (previously University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

Julie Larson-Guenette, Edgewood College, WI (previously University of Oklahoma)

2011

Jennifer Delahanty, US Bank, Compliance Training Officer

Adam Woodis, Illinois Wesleyan University

Helena Ruf, Lecturer, University of Minnesota

Andrew Kraiss, Educational Management, Madison, WI

Tyler Luiten, Professional Trainer, San Francisco (previously Marquette University, WI)

Lynn Wolff, Michigan State University

Nicola Schmerbeck, Ball State University, IN

2010

Andrea Menz, Carson Newman College

Antje Krüger, Goucher College, Baltimore

2009

Christoph Weber, University of North Texas

Jenny Wolff, Amsterdam

2008

Thyra Knapp, University of North Dakota

Jennifer Jenkins, Pacific Lutheran University

2007

Felecia Lucht, Wayne State University

James Pfrehm, Ithaca College

Katerina Somers, Queen Mary, University of London

Miranda Wilkerson, Assistant Professor of ESOL, Columbia College, Columbia, MO

Shannon Dubenion-Smith, Western Washington University

Kirk Martinson, St. Olaf College, MN

Rita Morandi, American University, Washington, DC

2006

Corina Petrescu, University of Mississippi

Erik Eriksson

2005

Eric Jarosinski, @NeinQuarterly (previously University of Pennsylvania)

Christina Gerhardt, University of Hawai’i, Manoa. Previously UC-Berkeley (2000-2006)

Matt Lange, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

Carrie Jackson, Pennsylvania State, University Park
Scandinavian Studies Alumni

PHD

Arthur, Susanne M 2015 Banks, William 2013 Bishop, Christopher 2013 Crawford, Jackson 2014 Eason, John 2011 Frandy, Tim 2013 Jaster, Vendula 2007 Lange, Michael 2005 Michelson-Ambelang, Todd 2015 Miksche, James 2005 Moody, Kjerstin 2010 Morset, Kari Synnøve 2009 Natiw, Paul 2015 Ostrauskaite, Milda 2007 Roy, Carrie 2011 Rue, Anna 2014 Schroeder, Jason 2016 Storfjell, Troy 2001 Tucker, Katarina 2007 Van Deusen, Natalie 2012 Virtanen, Hilary 2014 Willson-Broyles, Rachel 2013

MASTERS

Annear, Luke 2012 Brown, Samantha 2016 Dinger, Casey 2004 Fagen, Sara 2011 Ford, Randolph 2009 Holland, Matthew 2011 Jenkins, Jennifer 2001 Jessup, Rennesa 2005 Kahn, Aaron 2013 Lasky, Olivia 2013 Martin, Suzanne 2005 Prusynski, John 2016 Schmitt, Aaron 2006 Sederquist, Jason 2006 Selley, Lorna 2006 Templin, Thor 2003 Thompson, Amy 2007 Ziukaite, Laura 2001

Slavic Languages and Literature Alumni

UW-Madison Slavic PhD Graduates

Year	Name	Current Location	Dissertation Title
2014	Blasing, Molly Thomasy	U of Kentucky	Writing the Light: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, and Brodsky
2014	Woodson, Lisa	U of New Mexico	The Legend of Kitezh in Russian Literature
2014	Houston, David	Stetson U	Remembrance of Former Things: Three Figures of Russian Elegiac Literature
2013	Thorstensen, Victoria	Nazarbaev U	The Dialog with Nihilism in Russian Polemical Novels of the 1860’s-1870’s
2013	Antic, Marina	Pittsburgh, PA	(Post) Yugoslav Identities and the East-West Paradigm: Empires and Imperialism on the Margins of Europe
2012	Familiant, Nina A.	UW-Milwaukee	Dostoevskii’s and George Sand’s Quest for Mirovaia Garmoniia
2012	Blasing, Keith Malcolm	Lexington, KY (professional translator)	The Prose of Andrei Platonov & the Resurgence of the Soviet Family in the 1920’s
2011	Murphy, Amanda Fairchild	Colby College	Beyond Tatiana: Pushkin’s Heroines at the Intersection of Life & Art
2011	Jens, Benjamin Carl	College of New Jersey	Kenotic Silence: Communicative Strategies in 19th Century Russian Literature
2010	Peeney, Molly V.	Temple U	Contextualizing the Lonely Genius: Vladimir Nobokov & Soviet Literature of the 20’s and 30’s
2010	Shaw, Emily Alta	Floyd, VA	“Creating a Moral Hero; Tolstoy, Schopenhauer and the Problem of Self”
2010	Walker, Matthew Philip	Stanford U	“Gogol’s Ghosts: On the History of Nikolai Gogol in Russian Literary Criticism (1891-1944)”
2009	Ivleva, Viktoria Valeryevna	U of Durham	Fashion and Satorial Discourse in 18th Century Russian Literature & Culture
2009	McDonald, Erik William	University of Minnesota	Nekrasov and Russian Modernism
2009	Scollins, Kathleen Mary	U of Vermont	“Zdes’ Budget Gorod” : Logos and Golos in the Petersburg Text
2009	Tumarkin, Anna	UW-Madison	A Matter of Fact: The Generic Evolution of Soviet Feuilleton
2008	Johnson, Brian Robert	Swarthmore College	The Art of Dostoevsky’s Falling Sickness
2007	Spasova, Shannon Donnally	Michigan State U	Caught In the Web: Insects and the Revolution of Modernity in 20th Century Russian Literature
2006	Walker, Clint Byron	U of Montana	Transformation Metaphors in the “Soviet Moscow Text” of the 1920’s and 1930’s
2003	Walker, Gwendolyn Cynthia	Madison, WI (UW Press)	Silver-Age Writers on the “Black” Continent : Russia, Africa, and the Celebration of Distance
2002	Frost, Elisa Shorofskaia	Baltimore, MD	The Hut on Chicken Legs : Encounters with Landladies in Russian Literature
2002	Walter, Alexandra Talou	UW-Madison	The Representation of Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
2001	Komaromi, Ann Lyn	U of Toronto	Venedikt Erofeev’s Moskva-Petushki : The Life of Venichka
2001	Goldberg, Stuart Harris	Georgia Tech	“Pripodnimaiu Plenku Voshchenoi Bugami…” : Osip Mandelstam and the Boundaries of <ythopoetic Symbolism
2001	Loewen, Donald James	SUNY-Bingamton	Life Beyond the Lyric : The Prose Autobiographies of Russian Poets
2000	Voss, Jonathan Walter	St Paul MN	Cultural Memory in Acmeist Poetry: Contemporary Contexts
2000	Van De Stadt, Janneke Micaela	Williams College	Writing the Body : Maupassant, Babel, and the Somatic Text
1999	Dixon, Megan Lori	College of Idaho (Geography)	Making Prophecy the Poet’s Mission : Adam Mickiewicz and Vladimir Soloviev Analyze the Example of Aleksandr Pushkin
1999	Livak, Leonid	U of Toronto	Russian Emigré Literature in the Context of French Modernism : A Study in the Cultural Mechanlisms of Exile
1999	Tishler, Jennifer Ryan	UW-Madison	Remembering Atrocity : The Poetry of Anna Axmatova and Nelly Sachs
1998	Patterson, Galina Ivanovna	Chicago, IL	The Buffoon in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Russian Literature : The Literary Model and Its Cultural Roots
1998	Dinega, Alyssa Wendy	U of Notre Dame	Exorcising the Beloved : Problems of Gender and Selfhood in Marina Tsvetaeva’s Myths of Poetic Genius
1997	Iudin-Nelson, Laurie June	Luther College	Songs in the L2 Syllabus : Integrating the Study of Russian Language and Culture
1997	Gould, Stephany Lynn [Plecker]	James Madison U	Romantic Literary Narrative into Opera : Towards a Poetics of Transposition
1996	Presto, Jenifer Marie	U of Oregon	Zinaida Gippius and the Fashioning of Gender
1996	Matveyev, Rebecca Epstein	Deceased	Reworkings of the Society Tale in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel
1996	Petrusewicz, Mary	Washington DC	Into the Heart of Darkness : Ivan Bunin and the Modernist Poetics of Memory
1996	House, Patrick Matthias	Fort Dodge, IA	The Psychology of Decadence : The Portrayal of Ancient Romans in Selected Works of Russian Literature of the Mineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
1995	Klanderud, Paul Alfred	Minneapolis, MN	Things, Man, and Utopia : From Russian Futurism to Socialist Realism
1995	Swensen, Andrew Jon	Wellesley College	Russian Romanticism and Theologically Founded Aesthetics : Zhukovskij, Odoevskij, and Gogol and the Appropriation of Post-Kantian Aesthetic Principles
1995	Poulin, Francis Peter	Germantown, MD	The Creation of a Russian Moral Law in Philosophy and Fiction : The Cases of Dostoevskij, Solov’ev, and Tolstoj
1995	Ungurianu, Dan Ivanovich	Vassar College	The Russian Historical Novel from Romanticism to Symbolism : Fact, Fiction, and the Poetics of Genre
1994	Goldstaub, Dianne Sattinger	Madison, WI	Failure as Device : Subversion of the Positive Hero in Russian Fellow-Traveler Prose of the 1920s
1994	Brintlinger, Angela Kay	Ohio State University	The Russian Biographical Novel of the Nineteen Twenties and Thirties
1994	Singleton, Amy Catherine	College of Holy Cross	No Place Like Home : The Literary Artist and Russia’s Search for Cultural Identity
1994	Weiner, Adam	Wellesley College	Beyond Unreliability : Point of View in the Russian Demonic Novel
1993	Borenstein, Eliot Fred	NYU	Men Without Women : Masculinity and Revolution in Early Soviet literature
1992	Suh, Sang-Guk	Korea	Reflections of Buddhist Philosophy in Čingiz Ajtmatov’s Literary
1992	Thresher, Klawa Nepscha	Randolph College	Narration in Selected Short Works by Nikolaj Gogol’ : An Investigation into Multiple Narrative Modes and the Presence of Skaz
1992	Holl, Bruce Thomas	Trinity College	Don Quixote and the Russian Novel : A Comparative Analysis
1992	Yetter, Sonia L.	Northern IL	The Orphic Theme in the Poetry of Boris Julianovič Poplavskij
1991	Laursen, Eric	U of Utah	Exile and the Pastoral in the Poetry of Georgij Ivanov
1991	Pichova, Hana	UNC-Chapel Hill	The Theme of Exile in Nabokov’s The Gift and Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1990	Davis, Glenn Allen	Lubbock, TX	Aleksandr Solženicyn’s Historical Imagination : A Study of Rasnoe Koleso: Avgust Cetyrnadcatogo
1989	Browning, Timothy Douglas	UW-Madison	The Diachrony of Proto-Indo-European Syllabic Liquids in Slavic
1987	Basom, Ann Marie Haines	Northern IA	War and Revolution in the Poetry of Maksimilian Aleksandrovič Vološin, 1905-1923
1985	Lunk, Maria	Deceased	A Study of the Thematic Typology of the Religious Folk Verses (Duxovnye Stixi) About St. George
1984	Kang, Ducksoo	Seoul, KOR	A Comparative Study of the Historical Development of the Genitive Plural of Nouns in the Russian and Polish Literary Languages from the 16th Century to the 20th
1983	Brown, James Edwin	U of Hawaii	The Verse Epistles of A. S. Pushkin
1983	Laudon, Barbara Elaine	Preston, CT	Light and Darkness Imagery and the Demonic Element in Mixail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita
1981	Rolich, Andrea M Sepich	UW-Madison Library	The Stanzaic Forms of K.N. Batjuškov and E.A. Baratynskij
1980	Stapanian, Juliette Renee	Emory U	Cubist “Vision” in the Early Lyrics (1912-13) of V. V. Majakovskij : A Literary Interpretation Through Artistic Analogues
1979	Schaffer, David R.	Ellicott City, MD	The Short Stories of Zinaida Gippius : Decadent or Symbolist ?
1978	Hartman, Anthony Jerome	Harvard	The Versification of the Poetry of Anna Axmatova
1978	Polakiewicz, Leonard Anthony	Emeritus, Univ MN	The Image of the Doctor in Čexov’s Works
1975	Schnoes, Marie Iwanchuk	Madison, WI	Leonid Leonov’s Artistic Evolution : A Study of Four Major Novels

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