Vicki Grove

Vicki Grove

Teaching Professor of Distinction
Russian Program
The vampire in popular culture and literature; connections between Nordic and Russian cultures.
Galina Nicoll

Galina Nicoll

Assistant Teaching Professor
Russian Program
History and culture of the Space Race; Russian language, online pedagogy and intercultural communicative competence; Russian literature: 20th-century, science fiction and women's prose; Contemplative neuroscience in education; performing arts (music, theater, dance) and performance studies; literary canon and national mythmaking.
Laura Osterman

Laura Olson Osterman (Laura J. Olson)

Professor • Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies • Undergraduate Faculty Advisor
Russian Program
Russian and Bulgarian folk and popular culture; ethnographic methods in humanities research; gender studies; memoir, diary, and personal story; folk music and dance revival; minority studies; nationalism.
Anastasiya Osipova

Anastasiya Osipova

Assistant Professor
Russian Program
Russian and Eastern European twentieth and twenty-first-century culture; Soviet theory and materialist aesthetics, their influence on Russian literature of the 1920s-1960s, and their afterlives in contemporary Eastern European political art and culture; Historical Poetics; prison writing; feminism; post-classical anarchism; history of Soviet pedagogical experiments.
Natalia Plagmann

Natalia Plagmann

Assistant Teaching Professor
Russian Program
Russian language and literature; contemporary Russian culture; post-Soviet documentary cinema and theater; film, media, and performance studies.
Artemi Romanov

Artemi Romanov

Professor • Director of Graduate Studies
Russian Program
History of American-Russian relations; history of sport and the cold war; interpersonal and intergenerational communication; lexicology, sociolinguistics and second language acquisition.