Graduate Students
Benjamin Arenstein
barenstein@uchicago.edu
Research Interests:
20th-century Russian literature, modern Hebrew literature, literary exchange, translation theory, ecocriticism, Soviet émigré writing.
Cohort Year:
2019
Nadezhda Gribkova
ngribkova@uchicago.edu
Research Interests:
Russian Modernism and European Avant-Garde; 20th-century religious thought in Eastern Europe; Cold War-era artistic practices; and conceptual and blockchain art
Cohort Year:
2023
Anna Kaluher
akaluher@uchicago.edu
Research Interests:
Eastern European critic’s agency during war and civil conflicts during and after WW2, Criticism in Exile, Frankfurt school influence on Post Soviet literary theory, narratology and readership, critical deconstruction and rhetoric
Cohort Year:
2024
Julia Kulon
juliakulon@uchicago.edu
Research Interests:
20th-century Polish art and culture, literature and intellectual history; Socialist Realism in Eastern Europe; Polish-Jewish studies; disability and sound studies; aesthetics and ideology
Cohort Year:
2022
Oliver Okun
ookun@uchicago.edu
Research Interests:
Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian poetry and protest, Eastern European anti/post-colonialism, museum and exhibition curation
Cohort Year:
2019
Alina Orlova
orlovaa@uchicago.edu
Research Interests:
Research interests: Ukrainian and Russian dissident cultures, national literature, national identity, cultural colonization, and forms of artistic resistance to systems of oppression
Cohort Year:
2024
Olena Tsykynovska
lenatsykynovska@uchicago.edu
Research Interests:
Russian- and Ukranian-language poetry and the literature of cities.
Cohort Year:
2022