RUSSIAN FACULTY
Dr. Vitaly A. Chernetsky,
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Comparative Literature and
Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania. Co-editor,
Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Russian
Poetry' ( 2000); author of articles on post-Soviet
postcolonialism, the cultures of the former Soviet bloc;
Slavic writers in South America.
Dr. Paul Mitchell, Associate
Professor, Ph.D. Russian Language and Literature,
Indiana University. Soviet cinema, Russian language and
literature.
Dr. Benjamin Sutcliffe,
Assistant Professor; Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and
Literatures, University of Pittsburgh. Published
articles on contemporary author Nina Sadur and Soviet
author Natal'ia Baranskaia. Adviser to Miami's Russian
Club.
Dr. Margaret Ziolkowski,
Professor and Assistant Chair; 2005 Miami University
Distinguished Scholar; Ph.D. Russian Language and
Literature, Yale University. Hagiography and Modern
Russian Literature (1988), Literary Exorcisms of
Stalinism: Russian Writers and the Soviet Past (1998),
Tale of Boiarynia Morozova: A Seventeenth-Century
Religious Life (2000), and Alien Visions: The Chechens
and the Navajos in Russian and American Literature
(2005). Articles on medieval and modern Russian
literature.
EMERITI
Dr. Robert Bowie