Current Graduate Students

Ani Abrahamyan
Field: Russian Literature
Email address: aniabrah@iu.edu

Pedram Aghaalikhani
Field: Slavic Linguistics
Email address: pedragha@indiana.edu

Katherine Berry
Field: Slavic Literature
Interests: Russian and Czech 20th Century literature and film.
Email address:kapicker@indiana.edu

Greta Biedermann
Field: Slavic Literature and Translation
Email address: gbiederm@iu.edu

Rebecca Cravens
Jerzy Kolodziej Excellence in Teaching Award recipient, 2017
Field: Slavic Literature
Email address: reabaumg@indiana.edu

Vance Holthenrichs
Field: Slavic Linguistics
Interests: Verbal tense & aspect in Slavic languages; Syntax; Language Pedagogy; Russian, German, & Polish short stories/poetry.
Email address: vanholth@iu.edu

Jordan Hussey-Andersen
Field: Slavic Linguistics
Email address:jehussey@indiana.edu

Natalia Matskevich-Levin
Jerzy Kolodziej Excellence in Teaching Award recipient, 2019
Field: Slavic Literature
Interests: Russian literature, Russian Postmodernism; Soviet and Russian film; Polish film and language
Email address: natamats@indiana.edu

Bailey Orr
Field: Slavic Literature
Interests: Russian literature/film; constructions of gender/sexuality; magical realism.
Email address: bailorr@iu.edu

Nataliya Shpylova Saeed
Field: Slavic Literature
Email address: nshpylov@iu.edu

William Smeal
Field: Slavic Linguistics
Email address: wsmeal@iu.edu

Veronika Trotter
Jerzy Kolodziej Excellence in Teaching Award recipient, 2015
Field: Slavic Linguistics
Interests: second and heritage language acquisition and pedagogy, language processing, Hungarian studies.
Email address:veboikov@indiana.edu

Melissa Witcombe
Field: Slavic Linguistics
Interests: synchronic and diachronic phonology, phonetics, Russian, BCS, Slovene
E-mail address:mwitcomb@indiana.edu