Faculty


Interim Chair

George Mihaychuk

Associate Professor and Interim Chair of Slavic Languages
Interests: late-nineteenth-century Russian literature, a discourse or functional approach to narration, rhetoric, Ukrainian literature (1800s–1930s), and translation
E-mail: mihaychg@georgetown.edu
Office: ICC 307


Faculty

Svetlana Grenier

Associate Professor of Slavic Languages
Interests: gender, Russian women writers, and moral questions in literature
E-mail: greniers@georgetown.edu
Office: ICC 307


Elena Boudovskaia

Associate Teaching Professor of Slavic Languages
Interests: Comparative Slavic linguistics; Croatian, Ukrainian and other Slavic dialects in historical perspective; Rusyn, a minority Slavic language; Slavic folklore, traditional and contemporary.
E-mail: eeb54@georgetown.edu
Office: ICC 307


Irina Denischenko

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Women’s and Gender Studies
Interests: Modernism and the avant-garde, gender in Eastern European and Russian cultures, critical theory, comparative literature, Hungarian, Czech, and Russian literatures and art
E-mail: irina.denischenko@georgetown.edu
Office: ICC 473 (on leave AY 2024–25)


Lioudmila Fedorova

Professor of Slavic Languages
Interests: Russian twentieth-century literature, including its marginal genres, such as sci-fi and crime fiction, film, and Internet
E-mail: lf85@georgetown.edu
Office: ICC 307 (on leave fall 2024)


Bradley A. Gorski

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages
Interests: Contemporary Russian literature and culture, comparative literary systems, economics of culture, socialism, Soviet culture, film, violence, death and the undead
E-mail: bradley.gorski@georgetown.edu
Office: ICC 472 (on leave AY 2024–25)


Olga Meerson

Professor of Slavic Languages
Interests: Russian Orthodox liturgical poetics and musicology, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Andrei Platonov, contemporary Russian women writers, especially poets
E-mail: meersono@georgetown.edu
Office: ICC 307


Jill Neuendorf

Associate Professor of Slavic Languages
Interests: Identity and second language acquisition, Russian heritage speakers, and study abroad and language gain
E-mail: jn287@georgetown.edu
Office: ICC 307


Anna Pechnikova

Lecturer of Slavic Languages
Interests: Russian language pedagogy, second language acquisition, Russian literature, art, and culture
E-mail: ap1219@georgetown.edu
Office: ICC 307


Iwona Sadowska

Associate Teaching Professor of Slavic Languages, Head of the Polish Program
Interests: Polish language, linguistics, and culture, higher education studies, critical pedagogy, and film studies
E-mail: ibs3@georgetown.edu
Office: ICC 307


Emeritus Faculty