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Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Russian Literature and Culture
Chair of the Department of Slavic
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Russian Literature and Culture and chair of the Slavic department, joined Barnard's faculty in 1987. In addition to her teaching duties for the Slavic department, she is affiliated with Barnard's comparative literature program and human rights studies program. She is also the director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.
Professor Nepomnyashchy's research and teaching interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russian literature and popular culture (including television and dance), Russian women's studies, and the works of Alexander Pushkin, Andrei Sinyavsky, and Vladimir Nabokov.
Professor Nepomnyashchy is past president of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.
Selected Publications
Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness, ed. with N. Svobodny and L. Trigos (Northwestern University Press, 2006)
Abram Tertz and the Poetics of Crime (Yale, 1995)
Strolls with Pushkin, trans. with S. Yastremski; introduction by C. T. Nepomnyashchy (Yale, 1993)
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Russian Literature and Culture, Chair of the Department of Slavic
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EDUCATION:
B.A., M.A., Brown University
M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
RELATED LINKS:
Nepomnyashchy's School of International and Public Affairs faculty page
SPECIALIZATIONS:
Contemporary Russian literature
Russian popular culture
Russian women's studies