The following is a list of all dissertations that have been written in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures:
2023
Natalia Plagmann
"Human Documents on Screen and Stage: A Contrapuntal Reading of Post-Soviet Documentary"
Alexander Jacobson
Warring Works: The Russian Book of the 1960's and 1970's
Olga Zolotareva
Watching the World: Cinema, Photography, and the Russian Modernist Imagination
2022
Laura Matthews
The Muse of Pedagogy: Metaphors of Education in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
Liza Mankovskaya
Under Construction: Time, Space and Embodied Work in Soviet Narratives About Construction Post-Stalin
Maxwell Parlin
Dostoevsky via Kierkegaard: Interrelations of the Aesthetic, the Ethical, and the Religious
2021
David Hock
From a Space out of Time: Russian Poetry and the Aesthetic Ideology After the Soviet Union
2020
Lev Nikulin
Fear Obscured: The Apophatic Horror of Nikolai Gogol
2019
Massimo Balloni
For an Encyclopedia of the Living: Collective Creativity and the Early Soviet Novel
2018
Philip Gleissner
Through Thick and Thin: The Social Life of Journals under Late Socialism
Victoria Juharyan
The Cognitive Value of Love in Tolstoy: a Study in Aesthetics
2017
Timothy West
Czeslaw Milosz, Milan Kundera, Joseph Brodsky, and the Task of the Émigré Critic
2016
Geoff Cebula
Left Flank of the Avant-Garde – The Evolution of Oberiu Poetics
Alisa Ballard
The Actor's Consciousness in Russian Modernist Philosophy of Theater
Emily Wang
Civic Feeling: Pushkin and the Decembrist Emotional Community
Denis Zhernokleyev
Beholden by Love: A Study in the Apophasis of Dostoesky’s Poesis
2015
Lindsay Ceballos
Tragic Thinking in Early Russian Modernism: Minskii, Merezhkovski and Briusov
Elena Susanna Weygandt
Embodiment in Post-Somatic, Postdramtic Russian New Drama
Timothy Portice
The Russian Sublime: Origins, Rhetoric, and Romantic Response
2014
Jason Strudler
Mathematical Rebellion. Zero in the Russian Avant-Garde
Jennifer Wilson
Radical Chastity: The Politics of Abstinence in Late Nineteenth Century
2013
Cori Anderson
Case and event structure in Russian and Lithuanian
Vrinda Chidambaram
On Resumptive Pronouns in Slavic
2012
Anna Berman
Siblings: The Path to Universal Brotherhood in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
2011
James Tonn
Between Us and Artistic Appreciation: Nabokov and the Problem of Distortion
Jesse R. Menefee
Twisted Mirrors and Merged Polarities in Russia’s Decadent Imagination
2009
Lucie Medova
Reflexive Clitics in Slavic and Romance Languages. A Comparative View from an Antipassive Perspective
Mark Pettus
Dostoevsky’s Closed Threshold in the Construction of the Existential Novel
2008
Yuri Corrigan
Chekhov’s Existentialism: The Ethics of Outsideness
Ivan Eubanks
Influence, Discourse and Synthesis in Alexander Pushkin's Dramaturgy, with an Epilogue on Novelistic Discourse in Hordubal, Karel Capek's Adaptation of the Oresteia
Jamie McGavran
Vladimir Mayakovsky and the Poetics of Humor
2007
Dunja Popovic
Sacrifice and Salvation: Twentieth-Century Russian Literature and Soviet Ideology of the Body
Sarah Valentine (Dunn)
The Poetry and Thought of Gennady Aigi
2006
Tania Gordeev
The Letter as Inserted Genre in the Russian Literary Tradition
Sarah Beth Mohler-Kube
A Prosaics of the Mind's Eye: Reader Visualization, Perspective Engagement, and the Visual Ethics of Tolstoy's War and Peace
2005
Cole M Crittenden
Theatre in Time: The Meta-Temporal Drama of Chekhov, Vvedensky, and Havel
Laura Elaine Davies
A Construction-Grammatical Analysis of Impersonalization in Russian
2004
Jeanette Koenig
A Diachronic Analysis of the Interaction of Syllabification and Jer Vocalization
Sarah Clovis-Bishop
The Book of Poems in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature: Khodasevich, Gippius and Shvarts
2003
Eva Rottman
The Mary Stuart Myth in 20th Century Russian Literature
2002
Brian K. Stimmler
A Diachronic Analysis of the Russian Short Form Active Participle: the Syntax of Absolutes and Bare Predicate Adjuncts
Stephanie Harves
Unaccusative Syntax in Russian
2001
Abigail Wildman Konopasky
A Syntacto-Morphological Analysis of Dependent Heads in Slavic
Edit Noemi Jakab
The Modality of Nonfinite Clauses in Slavic and Finno-Ugric
Inessa Medzhibovskaya
Tolstoy's Projects of Transcendence (Reading the Conversion)
2000
David Freedel
A Comparative Pedagogical Analysis of Introductory Russian Language Textbooks
James E. Lavine
Topics in the Syntax of Nonagreeing Predicates in Slavic
Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine
From the Lyric to the Epic: Some Trends in the Early Twentieth-Century Russian POEMA
Nicole M. Monnier
The Man Who Became a Myth: The Canonization of Vissarion Belinsky in the Russian Literary Tradition
1999
Thomas Cunningham
Terrible Visions: The Sublime Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Opera
1998
Anthony Prather
Platonov's Chevengur and the Soviet Literary World of the 1920s
Craig Cravens
Pushkin's Evgenji Onegin, Dostoevsky's Besy, Capek's Hordubal, and Kundera's Zert: The First-Person Novel in Czech and Russian Literature
Gabriella Safran
Narratives of Jewish Acculturation in the Russian Empire: Bogrov, Orzeszkowa Leskov, Chekov
Marjorie J. McShane
Ellipsis in Slavic: The Syntax-Discourse Interface
1995
Loren Billings
Approximation in Russian and the Single-Word Constraint
1974
Emily Klenin
Russian Reflexive Pronouns and the Semantic Roles of Noun Phrases in Sentences
1973
Ronald Feldstein
The Prosodic System of Common Slavic
1972
Ellen Chances
The Ideology of "Pocvennicestvo" in Dostoevskij's Journals Vremja and Epokha
Nicholas Rzhevsky
Herzen in Russian Literature
1971
J.G. Kelso Russell
Leskov and Folklore
Priscilla Meyer
Aksenov and Soviet Prose of the 1950's and 1960's
Virginia Heron Bennett
The Russian Tradition of Nineteenth Century Literary Memoirs and Andrej Belyj's Vospominanija o A. A. Bloke
1970
Lewis Jules Bernhardt
Chapters in the History of the Hebrew Literary Renaissance in Russia (1892 - 1924): Hebrew Renaissance Poetry in Russian Translation
Michael K. Launer
Word-Formation in the Russian Adverb
1969
Gary Kern
Lev Lunc, Serapion Brother
John Earl Malmstad
The Poetry of Andrej Belyj: A Variorum Edition
1968
Elizabeth Phelps Sessions
The Language of Two Versions of the First Six Chapters of the Skazanie Avraamija Palicyna
Elliott Dunbar Mossman
The Prose of Boris Pasternak
1967
Joseph Benjamin Dees
Content and Expression in the Poetry of Baratynskij
1966
Henry Robert Hedrick
The Poetry of Derzavin