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Dissertations - from 1990 to the present

Baerman, Matthew. Free to Fixed Stress in Slavic. 1999.

Bermel, Neil Halford Andrew. Context and the Lexicon in the Development of Russian Aspect. 1994.

Bernshtein, Evgenii V. Western Models of Sexuality in Russian Modernism. 1998.

Brown, Avram Seth. Modernist Apocrypha: Contexts of the Gospel Plot in Russian Modernism. 1998.

Butler, Francis. Images of Missionaries and Innovative Rulers in East Slavic Literature from Early Times through the reign of Peter the Great. 1991.

Christopher Caes, Historical Contingency and Conceptions of the Self in Stalinist-era and Post-Stalinist Polish Literature and Film, 1950-1960. 2004.

Carlson, Paul Eric. Some Functions of Poetic Diction in A. K. Tolstoy’s “Smert’ Ioanna Groznogo”. 1992.

Comer, William John. The Russian Religious Dissenters and the Literary Culture of the Symbolist Generation. 1992.

Daly, Conor Anthony. Linguistic Change and Cultural Paradigms: the Development of Russian Scholarly Prose (18th-20th Centuries). 1991.

DiCeglie, Margherita M. Pia. The Fate of Humanism in Fin-de-siecle Russia. Vicheslav Ivanov’s Philosophical Speculations and Poetic Vision. The Dialogue of Poetry and Philosophy. 1999.

Elliott, Shawn Kate. The Aesthetics of Russian Folk Religion and The Brothers Karamazov. 1997. (Comparative Literature Department)

Emerson, Alexis Eugene. Alexandr Blok and the Mother-Figure. 1990.

Frazier, Melissa Anne. Frames of the Imagination: Gogol’s “Arabeski” and the Romantic Question of Genre. 1995.

Goeringer, Keith Eliot. The Syntax and Semantics of Adverbs in Russian: Scope, Orientation, and Word Order. 1998.

Herman, David Benjamin Lyle. Representing Otherness: Urban Poverty in Russian Literature from Karamzin to Nekrasov. 1993.

Horowitz, Brian Jay. M. O. Gershenzon and Intellectual Life of Russia’s Silver Age. 1992.

Hruska, Anne. Infected Families: Belonging and Exclusion in the Works of Leo Tolstoy. 2001.

Hudin, Jennifer Irene. Passive Constructions in Russian. 1990.

Johns, Andreas Rainer Bormann. Baba Iaga, the Ambiguous Mother of the Russian Folktale. 1996.

Jones, Janeen. The Tale of Misery-Evil Fortune: The Transformation of Folklore. 1996.

Kabalin, Margaret Mary. Vjekoslav Babukic: His Role as Linguist During the Illyrian Movement. 1993.

Ingrid Kleespies, Nomad Nation, Wandering Writer: Writing, Travel, and National Identity in Russian and Polish Literature (From the Late Eighteenth Century to the End of the Nineteenth Century). 2004.

Klioutchkine, Konstantine. Russian Literature and the Press, 1860-1914. 2002.

Kresin, Susan C. Third Person Reference in Russian and Czech. 1994.

Kuharski, Allen James. The Theatre of Witold Gombrowicz. 1991.

Langer, Ellen R. Individuality and Grammar: Instrumental Singular Variation in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literary Prose. 2001.

Karin Larsen, The evolution of the system of long and short adjectives in medieval Slavic and Old Russian. 2002.

Leckey, Celia E. Relative Clauses in Medieval Russian Texts. 1992.

Lofstedt, Torsten Martin Gustaf. Russian legends about forest spirits in the context of northern European mythology. 1993.

Matthews, David B. Case Variation in Contemporary Standard Russian. 1997.

McDevitt Miller, Ann Elizabeth. The Struggle to Create the New Man: The Literary Criticism and Career of Vladimir Friche. 2000.

Montgomery, David Jackson. Ivan Bunin and the Persistence of Memory: Recurrence, Mutability, and Desire in Three Major Texts. 1995.

Naiman, Eric. Sexuality and Utopia: the Debate in the Soviet 20s. 1991.

Nesbet, Anne. The Aesthetics of Violence in Russian and East German Literature. 1992.
(Comparative Literature Department)

Nickell, William Scott. Tolstoy in the Public Domain: His Death as a National Narrative. 1998.

Peabody, Mary Foster. Traditional and Individualistic Aspects of the Petitions of the Archpriest Avvakum. 1991.

Powelstock, David Lee. Poet as Officer and Oracle: Mikhail Lermontov’s Aesthetic Mythology. 1994.

Putney, Christopher Richard. Diabolic Conditionality: Nikolaj Gogol’s Aesthetics of Evil. 1996.

Rees, Mary Elinor. Introductions of New Characters in Russian Memoirs: Discourse Constraints on Word Order. 1994.

Rischin, Ruth Solomon. Semen Iushkevich (1868-1927) : the man and his art . 1993.

Shull, Sarah Ellen. The Experience of Space: The Privileged Role of Spatial Prefixation in Czech and Russian. 2000.

Stoll, Sabine. The Acquisition of Russian Aspect. 2001.

Vallee, Lillian Wereda. Bear with a Cross: Primordial Tradition in the Work of Czeslaw Milosz. 2003.

Vanchu, Anthony Joseph. Jurij Olesa’s Artistic Prose and Utopian Mythologies of the 1920s. 1990.

Wesling, Molly Williams. The Russian Representation of Napoleon: A Cultural Mythology. 1998.

Wessling, Robert Diedrich. Semyon Nadson and the Cult of the Tuberculer Poet. 1998.

Wolfson,Boris. Staging the Soviet Self: Literature, Theater, and Stalinist Culture, 1929-1939. 2004.