People
Director of Graduate Studies: Michael Kunichika
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Irina Belodedova
Faculty
Irina Belodedova
Email: irina.belodedova@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Ms. Belodedova's interests include contemporary Russian literature and culture, teaching methodology, and computer-assisted language instruction.
Email: irina.belodedova@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Ms. Belodedova's interests include contemporary Russian literature and culture, teaching methodology, and computer-assisted language instruction.
Eliot Borenstein
Email: eb7@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Russian modernism and postmodernism, popular culture and cultural studies, sexuality and literature.
Email: eb7@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Russian modernism and postmodernism, popular culture and cultural studies, sexuality and literature.
Jane Burbank
Email: jane.burbank@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Russian history; legal culture; empire; peasants.
Jane Burbank, Professor of History
Email: jane.burbank@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Russian history; legal culture; empire; peasants.
Jane Burbank, Professor of History
Stephen F Cohen
Email: sfc1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Russian politics and history since 1917, U.S. -Soviet/Russian relations, American media coverage of the Soviet Union and Russia.
Email: sfc1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Russian politics and history since 1917, U.S. -Soviet/Russian relations, American media coverage of the Soviet Union and Russia.
Eleonor Gilburd
Email: egilburd@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Russian, Soviet, and modern European history; cultural history, especially cross-cultural interactions and translation.
Email: egilburd@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Russian, Soviet, and modern European history; cultural history, especially cross-cultural interactions and translation.
Anneta Greenlee
Research/Interest: Women writers of Russia and Latin America, Russian theater and teaching language through reading plays, writing, and performing skits
Research/Interest: Women writers of Russia and Latin America, Russian theater and teaching language through reading plays, writing, and performing skits
Mikhail Iampolski
Email: mi1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Slavic literatures and cinema; theory of representation; the body in culture
Email: mi1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Slavic literatures and cinema; theory of representation; the body in culture
Ilya Kliger
Email: ik32@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: 19th-century Russian and French novel, theory of the novel, literary theory, aesthetics, epistemology
Email: ik32@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: 19th-century Russian and French novel, theory of the novel, literary theory, aesthetics, epistemology
Yanni Kotsonis
Email: yanni.kotsonis@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Imperial Russia; political economy; history of the modern state; history of taxation in Russia and the world
Yanni Kotsonis, History
Email: yanni.kotsonis@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Imperial Russia; political economy; history of the modern state; history of taxation in Russia and the world
Yanni Kotsonis, History
Michael Kunichika
Email: michael.kunichika@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Michael Kunichika's research interests include Russian modernism, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between painting and literature; Russian cinema and visual culture; literary theory, rhetoric, and Russian archaeology. He is currently working on his book: 'Our Native Antiquity': Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism.
Email: michael.kunichika@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Michael Kunichika's research interests include Russian modernism, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between painting and literature; Russian cinema and visual culture; literary theory, rhetoric, and Russian archaeology. He is currently working on his book: 'Our Native Antiquity': Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism.
Anne Lounsbery
Email: anne.lounsbery@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Nineteenth-century Russian prose; the rise of print culture; theories of the novel; Russian literature in comparative perspective; imaginary geographies.
Email: anne.lounsbery@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Nineteenth-century Russian prose; the rise of print culture; theories of the novel; Russian literature in comparative perspective; imaginary geographies.
Affiliated Faculty
Michael Beckerman
Email: michael.beckerman@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Czech and Eastern European music; Janacek, Dvorak, Martinu; nationalism, Gypsies, Mozart, Brahms, Gilbert and Sullivan, Schubert, and film music.
Email: michael.beckerman@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Czech and Eastern European music; Janacek, Dvorak, Martinu; nationalism, Gypsies, Mozart, Brahms, Gilbert and Sullivan, Schubert, and film music.
Martin Daughtry (ON LEAVE FALL 2012)
Email: jmd19@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: ethnomusicology; voice; music of the Russian-speaking world; music and politics; sonic violence; listening
Email: jmd19@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: ethnomusicology; voice; music of the Russian-speaking world; music and politics; sonic violence; listening
Gennady Estraikh
Email: ge293@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Jewish intellectual history in the 19th and 20th centuries with an accent on Yiddish literary milieus; Publishing and civil-society organizations
Email: ge293@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Jewish intellectual history in the 19th and 20th centuries with an accent on Yiddish literary milieus; Publishing and civil-society organizations
Mark Galeotti
Email: mg189@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: transnational organized crime, security affairs and modern Russia
Email: mg189@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: transnational organized crime, security affairs and modern Russia
Bruce Grant
Email: bruce.grant@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Former Soviet Union, Siberia, the Caucasus; cultural history and politics; religion.
Email: bruce.grant@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Former Soviet Union, Siberia, the Caucasus; cultural history and politics; religion.
Diana Greene
Research/Interest: Women writers and poets in the nineteenth century. Greene is also NYU’s Russian and Slavic bibliographer
Research/Interest: Women writers and poets in the nineteenth century. Greene is also NYU’s Russian and Slavic bibliographer
Cristina Vatulescu
Email: cristina.vatulescu@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: aesthetics and politics, law, and policing; artistic and extra-artistic genres, in particular the novel, autobiography, documentary film, melodrama, and the police file/film; literary and film theory and history; Russian and Romanian twentieth century culture; immigration and cultural exchange;
Email: cristina.vatulescu@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: aesthetics and politics, law, and policing; artistic and extra-artistic genres, in particular the novel, autobiography, documentary film, melodrama, and the police file/film; literary and film theory and history; Russian and Romanian twentieth century culture; immigration and cultural exchange;
Larry Wolff
Email: lw59@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Eastern Europe, Poland, Habsburg Monarchy, Enlightenment, history of childhood
History, Larry Wolff
Email: lw59@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Eastern Europe, Poland, Habsburg Monarchy, Enlightenment, history of childhood
History, Larry Wolff
