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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
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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
2013MASTERS
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
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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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