| Name | Year | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Advisor | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LeiAnna Hamel | 2024 | Lecturer and Director of the Yiddish Program, Ohio State University | Undisciplined Bodies: Deviant Female Sexuality in Russian and Yiddish Literatures, 1877-1929 | H. Murav | 
| Daria Semenova | 2023 | Post-doc, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Working in a project titled "The narrative of collective memory and mental maps of national space in Ukrainian literature for children and young adults since 1991" | At Home and Away: Community Belonging in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Adventure Fiction, 1918-1960 | V. Sobol | 
| Serenity Stanton Orengo | 2023 | Editorial Assistant, Slavic and East European Journal; Slavic Reference Service, University of Illinois Library | Transgressive Women and Bad Mothers: Alternatives to Traditional Maternity in The Russian Literary Context | V. Sobol | 
| Diana Sacilowski | 2021 | Assistant Professor of Teaching, The Ohio State University | Strategies of Silence: Representations of Jewish Poles in Polish Literature since the 1980s | G. Gasyna | 
| Jasmina Savic | 2019 | Assistant Professor, George Mason University | Porno Ludens: Soviet Literary Pornography, 1970s - 1990s | L. Kaganovsky | 
| Marina Filipovic | 2019 | Visiting Lecturer in Russian, Bates College | Technologies of Gender: Soviet Literature and Film in the 1920s and 1930s | L. Kaganovsky | 
| Matthew Sutton | 2017 | Self-Employment Consultant, Portals LLC, Indiana | Old Truths in New Skins: Animal Imagery in the Works of Nikolai Leskov | M. Finke | 
| Irina Avkhimovich | 2017 | Associate Professor of Russian, U of North Georgia | “The Time of Troubles” and the Dilemma of National Identity in Russian Historical Drama of the 18th and the 19th Centuries | V. Sobol | 
| Nadezhda Berkovich | 2016 | Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures, U of Arkansas at Fayetteville | The Emergence of Literary Ethnography in the Russian Empire: From the Far East to the Pale of Settlement, 1845-1917 | H. Murav | 
| Jack Hutchens | 2016 | Adjunct lecturer, Loyola University Chicago and UIUC Copy editor for The Polish Review and Polish American Studies. | Border Crossings: Transgressions of National and Gender Identities in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction | G. Gasyna | 
| Natalya Khokholova | 2015 | Associate Professor of Humanities, Yeoju Technical Institute in Tashkent | Imagined Wealth and Real Misfortune in Nineteenth-Century Russian Prose | A. Lalo | 
| Anna Arkatova | 2015 | Assistant Professor, Center for Foreign Languages and Culture, Hong Kong Baptist University, United International College, Zhuhai, China | The Feminine Eros as the Motive Force of Russian History: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Intertextual Dialogue with Marina Tsvetaeva | R. Tempest | 
| Oleksandra Wallo | 2013 | Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas | Post-Soviet Women Writers and the National Imaginary, 1989-2009 | V. Sobol | 
| Volodymyr Chumachenko | 2008 | Assistant Professor, University Archives and Special Collections, Kansas State University | Literary Dimensions of National Identity: the Historical Novel of the Late Soviet Period (1960s-1980s) | H. Murav | 
| Juliya Dolinnaya | 2002 | Technician, Selkirk College, Canada | The Dreamworld of Gaito Gazdanov in the Context of European Modernism | R. Tempest | 
| Brian E. Felt | 2002 | Faculty member of Russian, Department of Languages and International Studies, Brigham Young University-Idaho | The Accentuation of Prefixed Nouns in Bulgarian and Russian | F. Gladney | 
| Matthew F. Rosenstein | 2002 | Director, Global Education and Training, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Behind the Curtain: Liudmila Petrushevskaia's Gender and Age Character Types in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Contexts | R. Tempest | 
| Jung Ah Kim | 2001 | Numerological Code in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment | R. Tempest | |
| Svetlana Kobets | 2000 | Literature and Humanities Instructor, Continuing Education, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto | Genesis and Development of Holy Foolishness as a Textual Topos in Early Russian Literature | R. Tempest | 
| Irene Kolchinsky | 2000 | Editor, ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies) | The Second Wave of the Russian Avant-Garde: The Thaw Generation and Beyond | R. Tempest | 
| Yevgeny Slivkin | 2000 | Instructor of Russian, Department of of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Genesis and Variations of the Image of the Medieval Knight in Russian Literature of 19th Century: Breaking the Code of Chivalry | R. Tempest | 
| Kirsten M. Rutsala | 1999 | Collegiate Assistant Professor of Russian, Department of of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Metaparody in Selected Literary Works | T. Pachmuss | 
| Christopher K. Cosner | 1998 | IT Manager, Stanford University Press | The Symbolism of Female Characters in Fedor Sologub's Mythopoetics | R. Tempest | 
| Vladimir Dmitriev | 1997 | The Genre of the Novels of Mark Aldanov: Bildungsroman Historical and Philosophical Novels | T. Pachmuss | |
| Lynne Ikach | 1997 | Professor of Russian, Cornell College | Narrative Persona in Five Autobiographical Works of Viktor B. Shklovsky | T. Pachmuss | 
| Trina R. Mamoon | 1997 | Recently retired from the position of Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, University of Alaska-Fairbanks | The Prose of Zinaida Hippius and the Portrayal of Evolution of the New People | T. Pachmuss | 
| John S. Meredig | 1997 | Assistant Professor of German and Russian, University of Evansville | Russian Bird Names: A Linguistics Analysis | F. Gladney | 
| Yana Hashamova | 1996 | Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University; Editor of Slavic and East European Journal | Intertextuality of Love in Modern Drama (A Study in West European and Russian Drama) | T. Pachmuss |