Leonard Babby (Ph.D. Harvard). Professor of Slavic Linguistics. Structure of Russian (especially morphosyntax), History of Russian, Old Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Syntactic theory, Language universals, Turkish linguistics. babbylh@princeton.edu 609-258-2433
Margaret Beissinger (Ph.D. Harvard). Research Scholar and Lecturer. Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. Slavic and East European oral traditions; comparative oral narrative (epic, folktale); Romani (Gypsy) culture and performance; Balkan literatures and cultures (especially gender issues); general folklore; Romanian. mhbeissi@princeton.edu 609-258-3874
Ksana Blank (Ph.D. Columbia). Lecturer. Nineteenth and twentieth century Russian literature and culture, especially interdisciplinary approaches to literature. Russian component of Caryl Emerson's graduate courses. kblank@princeton.edu 609-258-4733
Ellen Chances (Ph.D. Princeton). Professor of Russian literature. Nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century novel, literature and art, literature and ideas, contemporary Soviet literature, the ethical dimensions of contemporary Russian cinema, Russian intellectual and cultural history, comparative Soviet and post-Soviet/American liternature and culture. echances@princeton.edu 609-258-4729
Caryl Emerson (Ph.D. Texas at Austin). Chairman of the Department. Professor of Russian Literature and Comparative Literature. Nineteenth century Russian prose, history of the novel, contemporary Russian literary criticism and theory, Russian intellectual and cultural history (especially philosophy and music). cemerson@princeton.edu 609-258-4730
Herman Ermolaev (Ph.D. California at Berkeley). Professor of Russian literature. Nineteenth and twentieth century Russian prose, Soviet literature, Socialist realism, Soviet censorship. ermolaev@princeton.edu 609-258-4731
Mirjam Fried (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley). Assistant Professor of Slavic Linguistics. Czech language. Cognitive approaches to grammar (Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics). Morphology and morphosyntax, discourse structure, lexical semantics, linguistic typology. Homepage. mfried@princeton.edu 609-258-3980
Olga Peters Hasty (Ph.D. Yale). Professor of Russian Literature. Russian nineteenth century poetry, Russian post-Symbolist poetry, Formalism, the Russian avant-garde, Nabokov and emigre literature, Russian drama, Russian women writers. hasty@princeton.edu 609-258-4734
Simon Morrison (Ph. D., Princeton University). Slavic Associate Faculty. His research interests include Russia and French music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement (2002) and Prokofiev: The Soviet Period (in progress). Over the past three years he has become involved in ballet restoration and production. He is currently working with Mark Morris on a staging of the original version of the ballet Romeo and Juliet. He is an Associate Professor in the Music Department. simonm@princeton.edu (609) 258-4231
Francis McLellan (Ph.D. Brown) Senior Lecturer. Russian language coordinator. Historical Slavic linguistics, Church Slavonic of all periods, History of Russian, Old East Slavic, Slavic manuscript textual studies, Russian religious thought. mclellan@princeton.edu 609-258-2190
Serguei Oushakine (Ph.D. Columbia) Assistant Professor. Late Soviet and post-Soviet popular culture; Soviet/post-soviet social theory; everyday socialism; post-communism; popular perceptions of crime and detection; Russian nationalism; violence, trauma, and memory; identity and identification. Homepage. oushakin@princeton.edu 258-2385
Charles Townsend (Ph.D. Harvard). Emeritus Professor of Slavic Linguistics. Structure of Russian, History of Russian, Common Slavic, Comparative Slavic, Czech and Czech Linguistics, Polish, Bulgarian. townsend@princeton.edu 609-258-7873
Michael Wachtel (Ph.D. Harvard). Directory of Graduate Studies, Professor of Russian Literature. Poetics, Nineteenth and twentieth century Russian poetry, Russian symbolism, Russian-German literary relations. wachtel@princeton.edu 609-258-0114