Slavic Department Faculty

David Macfadyen David Macfadyen
Chair
Post-war Russian literature, Soviet cinema and animation, popular entertainment, the "small stage" (èstrada) and song.
Twentieth-century philosophy, literary theory.
JOHANNA DOMOKOS Johanna Domokos
Adj. Assist. Professor.
Hungarian language and culture.
GEORGIANA GALATEANU Georgiana Galateanu
Lecturer.
Romanian language and culture, Romanian for heritage speakers, women and literature in Eastern Europe, foreign language pedagogy.
Michael Heim Micheal Heim
Professor.
Czech, Croatian, Serbian and Russian language and culture, translation theory and practice.
Literary translator.
Olga Kagan Olga Kagan
Senior Lecturer.
Foreign language pedagogy.
Coordinator of the Russian Language Program and Director of the Language Resource Program.
Emily Klenin Emily Klenin
Professor.
19th-century Russian literature (Fet and his circle), metrics, verse theory, Russo-German cultural ties, Russian language history, Old Russian, Church Slavonic, IT for poets.
Roman Koropeckyj Roman Koropeckyj
Associate Professor.
Polish and Ukrainian language, literature and culture, Romanticism, anthropology and literary theory.
Susan Kresin  Susan Kresin
Lecturer.
Czech and Russian language pedagogy, contrastive studies of contemporary Czech and Russian, focusing on definiteness, aspect, discourse.
Ganna Kudyma Ganna Kudyma
Lecturer.
Russian and Ukrainian language and culture.
Russian for heritage speakers, language pedagogy, Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL).
Gail Lenhoff Gail Lenhoff
Professor.
Medieval and 17th-century Russian literature and culture (saints’ lives, history writing, rhetoric, art), Russo-Tatar relations, political theology.
GEORGIANA GALATEANU Alexander Ospovat
Professor.
Late 18th- and 19th-century Russian literature and intellectual history (Pushkin, ARZAMAS, Tyutchev, Dostoevsky), cultural mythology.
Ronald Vroon Ronald Vroon
Professor.
vroon@humnet.ucla.edu
Professor. 20th-century Russian poetry (Symbolism, Futurism, the Peasant School); Baroque and Neoclassicism (Polotsky, Sumarokov, Derzhavin)
Vyacheslav V. Ivanov Vyacheslav V. Ivanov
Professor.
Slavic, Baltic, and Indo-European linguistics, mythology and folklore, Russian literature and culture, languages of Los Angeles.