Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

• The Vampire in European and American Culture (SLAV-T230)
• Introduction to the Slavic Languages (SLAV-T252)
• Central and East European Immigration and Ethnic Identity in the United States (SLAV-T241)
• Elementary Czech I&II (SLAV-C101/501, C102/502)
• Russian for Graduate Students (SLAV-R491)

 

Slavic linguistics; sociolinguistics; language maintenance and shift; onomastics; immigration and ethnic identity; teaching of Russian and Czech; Russian Old Believer studies; vampire studies; cemetery studies

Dissertation: “Language Maintenance and Shift Among the Russian Old Believers of Erie, Pennsylvania”

Current project(s): Russian Old Believer migration in Europe and immigration to the eastern U.S.; history and lexicon of the Russian Old Believers of the eastern U.S.; ethnic, linguistic, and religious identity