Core Faculty

Heghine Hakobyan

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  • Title: Slavic Librarian
  • Additional Title: REEES Instructor
  • Phone: 541-346-1858
  • Office: 121 Knight Library
  • Office Hours: 11.00am-12.30pm Fridays
  • Affiliated Departments: College of Arts and Sciences
  • Website: Website

Katya Hokanson

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
  • Additional Title: Director of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-3947
  • Office: 247 PLC
  • Affiliated Departments: Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
  • Interests: 19th-century Russian literature, women's writing, and Russian colonialism.

Susanna Lim

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Literature, Russian Studies, and Korean Studies
  • Additional Title: Director of REEES Graduate Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-0691
  • Office: 1715 Franklin Blvd., Rm 101
  • Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College, Korean

Julia Nemirovskaya

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  • Title: Senior Instructor I
  • Phone: 541-346-4001
  • Office: 271 PLC
  • Office Hours: by appointment

Jenifer Presto

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
  • Phone: 541-346-4065
  • Office: 272 PLC
  • Office Hours: Fall 2022: M & W 11:00 a.m-noon & by appt.
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
  • Interests: Russian modernism; gender studies; literature and the visual arts; imaginative geographies; Russian-Italian cultural interactions; Russian-American culture; and environmental criticism

Lara Ravitch

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II
  • Additional Title: Russian Language Coordinator & Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-4077
  • Office: 245 PLC
  • Office Hours: FA 2022: Mondays, 1:30-2:30, and by appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: American English Institute