CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT:
Associate Professor Eliot Borenstein

DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES:
Assistant Professor Anne Lounsbery

New York University offers an interdisciplinary master's degree in Russian and Slavic studies. Since degree candidates have the opportunity to take courses in departments across NYU, the curriculum encompasses a wide variety of specializations, from literature and film to anthropology, history, politics, music, linguistics, and performance studies. With its focus on interdisciplinarity and comparative methodologies, the program encourages the kind of academic boundary-crossing that has distinguished much of the most innovative recent work in Russian literary and cultural studies. We also have limited course offerings in other Slavic cultures, primarily Czech.

Faculty

Irina Belodedova, Senior Language Lecturer; Language Coordinator. M.A. 1983 (Russian literature), New York; B.A. 1973, Kiev.
Teaching methodology; computer-assisted language instruction; 20th-century Russian literature.

Eliot Borenstein, Associate Professor; Chair, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies. Ph.D. 1993 (Slavic languages and literatures), M.A. 1989 (Slavic languages and literatures), Wisconsin (Madison); B.A. 1988 (Russian language and literature), Oberlin College.
Russian modernism and postmodernism; critical theory and cultural studies; sexuality and culture; Central and East European literature.

Jane Burbank, Professor, History, Russian and Slavic Studies. Ph.D. 1981, M.A. 1971, Harvard; M.L.S. 1969, Simmons College; B.A. 1967, Reed College.
Russian history; legal culture; imperial polities; peasants.

Stephen F. Cohen, Professor, Russian and Slavic Studies, History. Ph.D. 1969 (political science and Russian studies), Columbia; M.A. 1962 (government and Russian studies), B.S. 1960 (economics and public policy), Indiana.
Twentieth-century Russian politics and history; U.S.-Soviet/Russian relations; American media coverage of the former Soviet Union and Russia.

Milan Fryscák, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1969, Ohio State; M.A. 1963, California (Berkeley); Promovany Filolog 1956, Palacky (Czech Republic).
Slavic linguistics; Slavic culture; Czech literature.

Anneta Greenlee, Language Lecturer. M.A. 1989, New York; Diploma of Higher Education 1975, Leningrad.
Language teaching methodology; women writers; Russian, West European, and Latin American theatre.

Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor. Ph.D. 1992 (philosophy), Münster; M.A. 1971 (philosophy and mathematics), Leningrad State.
Modernist and postmodernist art and cultural theory; theories of media; philosophy; Moscow conceptualism; the Russian avant-garde.

Mikhail Iampolski, Professor, Compa-rative Literature, Russian and Slavic Studies. Habil. 1991 (French philosophy and film studies), Moscow Institute of Film Studies; Ph.D. 1977, Russian Academy of Pedagogic Sciences; B.A. 1971, Moscow Pedagogical Institute.
Theory of visual representation; the body in culture.

Ilya Kliger, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 2005 (comparative literature), M.A. 2000 (comparative literature), Yale; B.A. 1995 (European intellectual history), Cornell.
Truth discourse in 19th-century Russian and French novels; 19th- and 20th-century Russian and European intellectual history; history and theory of the novel; intersection of narrative theory and epistemology; aesthetics.

Yanni Kotsonis, Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1994 (history), Columbia; M.A. 1986 (Russian studies), London; B.A. 1985 (history), Concordia (Montreal).
Late imperial and early Soviet Russia; governmentality; Russian political economy and political philosophy; economic and political history of Russia; Russia in comparative European perspective; agrarian studies; theories of the Russian state.

Anne Lounsbery, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. 1999 (comparative literature), M.A. 1995 (comparative literature), Harvard; B.A. 1986 (medieval studies, studio art), Brown.
Nineteenth-century Russian literature; comparative Russian and American literary studies; history and theory of the novel; symbolic geographies.

FACULTY EMERITA

Charlotte Douglas.