Summer 2024 was a busy season for our department. We congratulate these three scholars on successfully defending their doctoral dissertations:

Caity Giustiniano, “From Prutkov to Kharms: Tracing Nonsense in the Russian Literary Tradition”

Liza Levina, “Imaginary Geographies: Political Fictional-Country Narratives in Post-Revolutionary Russophone Literature”

Sarah Matthews, “The Metaphysical Materiality of Vladislav Khodasevich and T.S. Eliot’s Poetry”