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 Undergraduate Studies, REEES
  • 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
  • Additional Title: Director of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
  • Phone: 541-346-4065
  • Office: 272 PLC
  • Office Hours: Spring 2022: Tues. Noon-2:00 p.m. & by appt. (For a Zoom appt., please email me for a link.)
  • 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
  • Phone: 541-346-4077
  • Office: 245 PLC
  • Affiliated Departments: American English Institute