Ani Abrahamyan

Graduate Student

Russian Literature

• aniabrah@iu.edu

Pedram Aghaalikhani

Graduate Student

Slavic Linguistics

• pedragha@indiana.edu

Rebecca Cravens

Graduate Student

Slavic Literature

• reabaumg@indiana.edu

Interests: Russian modernism and avant-garde; time travel and narrative theory; Czech language and literature.

Awards:
College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Fellowship (2020-2021 academic year)
Neatrour-Edgerton Fellowship (Spring 2020)
Jerzy Kolodziej Excellence in Teaching Award recipient (2017)
Slavic department fellowship (Spring 2015)
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship (2012-2013).

Vance Holthenrichs

Graduate Student

Slavic Linguistics

• vanholth@iu.edu

Interests: verbal tense and aspect in Slavic languages; syntax; language pedagogy; Russian, German, Polish short stories and poetry

Jordan Hussey-Andersen

Graduate Student

Slavic Linguistics

• jehussey@indiana.edu

Natalia Matskevich-Levin

Graduate Student

Slavic Literature

• natamats@indiana.edu

Interests: Russian literature; Russian postmodernism; Soviet and Russian film; Polish film and language

Nataliya Shpylova Saeed

Graduate Student

Slavic Literature

• nshpylov@iu.edu

Interests: Cultural Memory, Ukrainian and Russian Literatures and Cultures under the Russian Empire, Postcolonial Studies, Literary Criticism, Soviet-American Literary Relations

Awards:
Neatrour-Edgerton Award, 2022
Jerzy Kolodziej Excellence in Teaching Award recipient, 2021
Excellence in Instruction Award, IU Summer Language Workshop, 2020 Up-and-Coming Leader Award, Indiana University, 2020

William Smeal

Graduate Student

Slavic Linguistics

• wsmeal@iu.edu