| Graduate Name | Dissertation Details |
|---|---|
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Nancy Lynn Cooper Ph.D. 1990 |
Title: Aleksandr Blok's lyric cycle "Gorod" ("The City") : interpretations |
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Laura Jo Turner McCullough Ph.D. 1990 |
Title: The romantic novels of A. F. Vel'tman |
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Alana I. Thorpe Ph.D. 1991 |
Title: Clitic placement in complex sentences in Czech |
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Maurice L. Hebert Ph.D. 1992 |
Title: Hesychasm, word-weaving, and Slavic hagiography: the literary school of patriarch Euthymius |
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Rosemarie Krais Jenness Ph.D. 1992 |
Title: Nikolai Gogol's aesthetics compared to major elements of German Romanticism |
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Dorna Louise Koorbanoff Ph.D. 1992 |
Title: Bulgarian metathesis reconsidered: diachrony and synchrony |
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Claudia Novack-Jones Ph.D. 1992 |
Title: The semantics of aspect and aspects of semantics : a study of the verb in Russian, Czech and English |
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Nancy Susan Smith Ph.D. 1992 |
Title: Czech verb classification from the gramatika ceska to the single stem of Jakobson and beyond |
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Lawrence Kevin Mansour Ph.D. 1993 |
Title: A.V. Druzhinin and the origins of Russian estheticist criticism |
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Thomas Hilary Oller Ph.D. 1993 |
Title: The Nikol'Skij Apocalypse codex and its place in the textual history of medieval slavic apocalypse manuscripts |
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Dora Gurewicz Rytman Ph.D. 1993 |
Title: Russian-Jewish literature as a mirror of the fate of Russian Jewry: The special case of Ilya Ehrenbury |
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Gerald Franklin Barrow Ph.D. 1994 |
Title: The voice unheard: Nikolai Gogol's prophetic stance |
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Nancy E. Downey Ph.D. 1994 |
Title: The garden in the graveyard: Memory in Pushkin's Evgeny Onegin |
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Thomas Ralph Epstein Ph.D. 1994 |
Title: Fragmented unity: Thought, language and reality in the poetry of Vvedensky, Harms, and Oleinikov |
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Irina Mirsky-Zayas Ph.D. 1994 |
Title: An old fairy-tale or a new legend: A study in Leskov's Mythologizing fiction |
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David Scott Danaher Ph.D. 1995 |
Title: The Expression of Habituality in Czech |
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Alexei Pavlenko Ph.D. 1995 |
Title: Poetics of Heroism: Eduard Limonov's It's Me, Eddie |
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Nancy Louise Heingartner Ph.D. 1996 |
Title: The Effect of Age Upon Non-Indefinite -to Use: a Study of the Spoken Russian of Moscow Women |
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Francis Ronald Mclellan Ph.D. 1996 |
Title: The Hilandar Gospel and Its Place in the Textual History of the Church Slavonic Tetraevangelion |
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Lisette Saint Germain Ph.D. 1996 |
Title: An Analysis of a Large Computerized Corpus of Spoken Czech |
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Ingrid Helene Semenza Ph.D. 1996 |
Title: Faith Amidst the Chaos: Towards an Understanding of the Religious Message Embedded in Dostoevsky's Besy |
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Olga B Strakhov Ph.D. 1996 |
Title: The Reception of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Culture and Literature in Muscovite Rus': the Case of Evfimii Chudovskii (1620s [?]-1705) |
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Igor Georgievich Vishnevetsky Ph.D. 1996 |
Title: Life and Poetic Evolution of S. M. Soloviev |
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Natalie Foshko Ph.D. 1997 |
Title: Hybrid Genres in Pushkin, Gogol, Bulgakov, and the Strugatskys |
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Alisa Gayle Mayor Ph.D. 1997 |
Title: Models for Creativity and the Image of the Author in the Poetry of G.R. Derzhavin |
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Laura J Souders Ph.D. 1997 |
Title: Folk Belief, Dvoeverie and Revolution in the Prose Works of Sergei Klychkov |
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Maria Rubins Ph.D. 1998 |
Title: Ecphrasis in Parnasse and Acmeism: Comparative Visions of Poetry and Poetics |
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Jill K Sigman Ph.D. 1998 |
Title: Myth, Metaphor and Meaning: Three Works By Chingiz Aitmatov |
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Juliette M Petion Ph.D. 1999 |
Title: Life Into Art: the Pseudo-Autobiography in Post-Revolutionary Russian Literature |
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Irina L Vayl Ph.D. 1999 |
Title: The Crown of Sonnets By Vyacheslav Ivanov Mythology - Theology - Language |
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David Lindgren Gehrenbeck Ph.D. 2000 |
Title: Decembrist (Self-) Mythification Disentangling The Political From The Aesthetic In The Works Of Ryleev, Kiukhel'beker And Bestuzhev-Marlinskii |
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Martha T. Kitchen Ph.D. 2001 |
Title: A Lasting Song: The Anacreontic World of Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin |
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Irina Muravyova Ph.D. 2002 |
Title: Childhood as an Ethical Category in the Works of F. M. Dostoevsky |
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Durga Kotamraju Ph.D. 2003 |
Title: The Concepts of Fantasy, Imagination and Imitation in the Poetry of A. Kh. Vostokov |
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Marina Aptekman Ph.D. 2004 |
Title: The Language and the Light: the Kabbalistic Allegory in Russian Literature: From Religious Philosophy to Political Mythology |
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Charles Henry Arndt Ph.D. 2004 |
Title: Dostoevsky’s Engagement of Russian Intellectuals in the Question of Russia and Europe: from “Winter Notes on Summer Impressions” to “The Devils” |
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Heather May Daly Ph.D. 2004 |
Title: Orientalized and Appropriated: Spain in the Russian Romantic and Neo-Romantic Literary Imagination |
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Olga Simonova Partan Ph.D. 2004 |
Title: Recurring Masks: The Impact of the Italian Commedia Dell’arte on the Russian Artistic Imagination |
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Natalia Lechtchenko Ph.D. 2005 |
Title: A Window on Russia: The Moscow Myth in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature and Culture |
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Kerry Ann Sabbag Ph.D. 2005 |
Title: Can “Slava” and Salvation Coexist?: The Fame Text in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature |
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Sofya Khagi Ph.D. 2006 |
Title: Silence and the Rest: Verbal Skepticism in Russian Poetic Culture |
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Olga Yoshizumi Ph.D. 2006 |
Title: Anglicisms in Russian after Perestroika |
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Melissa J Sokol Ph.D. 2007 |
Title: Rumors and Gossip in 19th Century Russian Literature: Griboedev, Pushkin, Gogol and Dostoevsky |
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Ksenia Keren Faingersh Ph.D. 2014 |
Title: Performing Communist Myths: the Afterlife of an Orphaned Myth |
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Erin Katherine Krafft Ph.D. 2015 |
Title: Reading Revolution in Russian Women’s Writing: Radical Theories, Practical Action, and Bodies at Work |
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Konstantin Starikov Ph.D. 2016 |
Title: The Poetic Riddle in Eighteenth-Century Russia |
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Christopher Henry Carr Ph.D. 2016 |
Title: The Redemption of the “Superfluous Man” in Russian Literature |
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Anastasiia Selemenova Ph.D. 2017 |
Title: V.F. Khodasevich: Russia’s Poet-Critic |
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Vitaliy Simankov Ph.D. 2017 |
Title: Originals and Translations: A Study Based on Old Slavic Texts and Russian Eighteenth-Century Journals |
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Diana Dukhanova Ph.D. 2017 |
Title: Jesus of Bethlehem: Vasily Rozanov and the Discourse of Matrimonial Sexuality in the Russian Orthodox Church |
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Iryna Hniadzko Ph.D. 2018 |
Title: Svetlana Alexievich: Fiction and Nonfiction of Confessions |
Slavic Studies
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Slavic Studies Ph.D. Dissertations 1990 - Present
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