Russian Faculty
Melissa Frazier
Hyman H. Kleinman Fellowship in the Humanities
Courses: First-Year Studies: Dostoevsky and the West, First-Year Studies: Dostoevsky and the West, Intermediate Russian
A.B., Harvard University. Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley. Special interests include Romanticism and Romantic aesthetics, theory of genre, Russian Formalism, and Polish literature; author of articles and books on Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Senkovskii, and comparative Romanticism; recipient of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Presidential Exchange Scholarship, the Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, and the Berkeley fellowship. SLC, 1995-
Ms. Ekaterina Korsunskaia
Courses: Beginning Russian
A.B., Moscow University, Russia. M.A., Institute for the History of Arts and the Humanities, Russia. Worked as a correspondent for the Moscow daily and as a museum curator. Moved to the United States in 1992 and worked as a New York correspondent for the Newsweek-Russiamagazine. Taught Russian language at the New School for Social Research and New York University. Special interests include Russian folklore and theatre. SLC, 1998-