Core Faculty

Heghine Hakobyan

Title: Slavic Librarian
Additional Title: REEES Instructor
Email: heghineh@uoregon.edu
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

Title: Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Additional Title: Director of Undergraduate Studies, REEES
Email: hokanson@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3947
Office: 247 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 2020: Tuesdays from 2 to 4 p.m. via email to begin with.
Affiliated Departments: Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Interests: 19th-century Russian literature, women's writing, and Russian colonialism.

Yelaina Kripkov

Title: Senior Lecturer II of Russian
Additional Title: Russian Language Coordinator
Email: ykripkov@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4077
Office: 245 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 2018: Tuesdays 1pm - 2pm; Fridays 2pm - 3pm; & by appt

Susanna Lim

Title: Associate Professor of Literature, Russian Studies, and Korean Studies
Additional Title: Director of REEES Graduate Studies
Email: susannal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0691
Office: 1715 Franklin Blvd., Rm 101
Affiliated Departments: Korean

Julia Nemirovskaya

Title: Senior Instructor I
Email: nemro@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4001
Office: 271 PLC
Office Hours: by appointment

Jenifer Presto

Title: Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Additional Title: Director of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Email: presto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4065
Office: 272 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 2020: for COLT 470/570, Wed. 4:00-5:00 p.m. via Canvas Chat; for REES 608, Thurs. 3:30-4:30 p.m. via Canvas Chat; and by appt. on Zoom or by phone (mobile: 541-485-7400)
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