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Congratulations to Professor Cori Anderson on her promotion to Assistant Teaching Professor! The department is grateful for her years of hard work, excellence in teaching, and service to the department and the university as a whole. Read more about Dr. Anderson here.
We are excited to welcome Professor Pavel Khazanov to the department! He joined the department in Fall 2018.
Pavel Khazanov comes to Rutgers University from the European University Institute, where he was a postdoctoral Max Weber Fellow in History and Civilization. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MA in Continental Philosophy from the Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy (currently based at Kingston University in London), as well as a BA in English from UCLA. He researches late Soviet and post-Soviet Russian culture, with a focus on the ideology of the Russian intelligentsia between the 1950s and today. He is especially interested in studying the interpretation of concepts like socialism, liberalism and nationalism among Russian elites and their audiences, and how these ideas influenced literature, criticism, film and art of the 20thand the 21stcentury. His book project, A Russia That We Have Lost: The History and Politics of Recalling the Pre-Soviet Past examines how inventive recollections of the pre-Revolutionary past allowed late Soviet intellectual leaders and their followers to define themselves and articulate a political horizon that ended up shaping the post-Soviet era. He also studies the Soviet discourse on humanist subjectivity, with special attention to the Stalin decades and the post-Stalin ‘Thaw.’ His work has been published in The Russian Review, The Pushkin Reviewand elsewhere. In 2019-2020, he will offer several courses on Soviet/Post-Soviet cultural history and literature, as well as Russian émigré literature.
We are pleased to welcome Professor Chloë Kitzinger to the department in Fall 2017!
Chloë Kitzinger comes to Rutgers University from Princeton, where she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and a lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Humanistic Studies. She completed her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds an MA from the Middlebury School of Russian and a BA in Philosophy from Yale. Her research and teaching interests center on nineteenth and twentieth century Russian literature, particularly the Russian and European novel, literary theory, and intersections between philosophy and literature. Her work has been published in Slavic and East European Journal, Nabokov Studies, and elsewhere. Her book manuscript in progress, Mimetic Lives, discusses Tolstoy’s and Dostoevsky’s novels as uniquely rich ground for addressing two underexplored questions: how is the impression of autonomously “living” characters created, distributed, and sustained throughout a novel, and what are the outer limits of this illusion’s power to educate or transform a novel’s readers? She has taught courses on Russian and European literature, Russian language, and academic writing. At Rutgers this year she will offer courses on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Gender and Sexuality in Russian Literature.
Congratulations to Professor Van Buskirk, who was awarded the SAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education in May 2017. Click here for the press release!
Are you thinking about a Russian major or minor? Do you wonder why other Rutgers students have chosen this path? Then check out our new video with testimonials from several of our wonderful students! You'll also find out what they like most about the program, how they combine their Russian studies with other subjects, and what you can expect from your classes and the program in general.