A photo of Beata Gallaher

Beata Gallaher

Teaching Assistant Professor
Russian Program
SLA, linguistic politeness in Russian, Polish, and German and cross-cultural communication, gender issues in language and culture, teaching culture through film, and foreign language teaching and pedagogy.
Vicki Grove

Vicki Grove

Teaching Professor of Distinction
Russian Program
The vampire in popular culture and literature; connections between Nordic and Russian cultures.
Galina Nicoll

Galina Nicoll

Teaching Assistant Professor
Russian Program
History and culture of the Space Race; Russian language, online pedagogy and intercultural communicative competence; Russian literature: 20th-century, science fiction and women's prose; Contemplative neuroscience in education; performing arts (music, theater, dance) and performance studies; literary canon and national mythmaking.
Laura Osterman

Laura Olson Osterman (Laura J. Olson)

Professor • Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies • Undergraduate Faculty Advisor
Russian Program
Russian and Bulgarian folk and popular culture; ethnographic methods in humanities research; gender studies; memoir, diary, and personal story; folk music and dance revival; minority studies; nationalism.
Anastasiya Osipova

Anastasiya Osipova

Assistant Professor
Russian Program
Russian and Eastern European twentieth and twenty-first-century culture; Soviet theory and materialist aesthetics, their influence on Russian literature of the 1920s-1960s, and their afterlives in contemporary Eastern European political art and culture; Historical Poetics; prison writing; feminism; post-classical anarchism; history of Soviet pedagogical experiments.
Natalia Plagmann

Natalia Plagmann

Teaching Assistant Professor
Russian Program
Russian language and literature; contemporary Russian culture; post-Soviet documentary cinema and theater; film, media, and performance studies.
Artemi Romanov

Artemi Romanov

Professor • Director of Graduate Studies
Russian Program
History of American-Russian relations; history of sport and the cold war; interpersonal and intergenerational communication; lexicology, sociolinguistics and second language acquisition.