People - Faculty

José Alaniz

Interim Chair Autumn 2025 - Winter 2026, Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator

jos23@uw.edu

Office Hours: Spring 2026: by appointment (Zoom)

PDL A-210D

20th Century, Comics, Comparative Literature, Culture, Disability, Ecocriticism, Film/Cinema, Russian

Bojan Belić

Teaching Professor, Dept. Languages Coordinator

bojan@uw.edu / (206) 221-4281

Office Hours: Spring 2026: Mondays 3:30-5:30 pm; Fridays 1:30 - 2:30 pm; and by appointment

PDL A-214

Bosnian Croatian Montenegrin Serbian, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Russian, Slavic

Gordana Crnković

Professor and Chair

crnkovic@uw.edu / (206) 543-7641

Office Hours: Spring 2026: Tuesdays 10:30-11:20 AM, Thursdays 2:30-3:30 PM

PDL A-212

Bosnian Croatian Montenegrin Serbian, Comparative Literature, East European, Film/Cinema, Literature

Katarzyna Dziwirek

Professor Emerita

dziwirek@uw.edu / (206) 543-7691

Office Hours: Winter 2026: Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. online

PDL A-217

Bilingualism, Comparative Linguistics, Cross-cultural Semantics and Pragmatics, Historical Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Linguistics of Emotions, Polish, Second Language Acquisition, Slavic

Piotr Florczyk

Associate Professor

piotrf@uw.edu

Office Hours: Spring 2026: Fridays 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Online, and by appointment

PDL A-219

Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, Global and Transnational Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Translation and Interpretation

Barbara Henry

Associate Professor

bjhenry@uw.edu

Office Hours: Spring 2026: Wednesdays 11:00 - 1:00 p.m. (Zoom)

PDL A-211

19th Century, 20th Century, Classics, Comedy, Comic Theory, Drama, Folklore and Mythology, Jewish Studies, Literature, Russian, Yiddish

Agnieszka Jezyk

Maria Kott Endowed Assistant Professor of Polish Studies

ajezyk@uw.edu / (206) 543-2605

Office Hours: Spring 2026: By appointment (In-Person and through Zoom)

PDL A-215

European Avant-Garde, Horror Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Polish, Polish 20th and 21st-Century Literature and Film, Psychoanalysis

Ileana Marin

Lecturer, Part-Time

marini@uw.edu / (206) 543-1818

Office Hours: Winter 2026: Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. and by appointment

PDL A-210H

Art History, Communist censorship, Romanian, Victorian Studies, World Literature

Zoya Polack

Associate Teaching Professor

zpolack@uw.edu

Office Hours: Spring 2026: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30 - 11:30 a.m., and by appointment

PDL A-210F

Russian, Ukrainian

Sasha Senderovich

Associate Professor

senderov@uw.edu

Office Hours: Spring 2026: By appointment, in person or online. Write to senderov@uw.edu to schedule.

PDL A-210E

20th Century, 21st Century, Comparative Literature, Culture, Film/Cinema, Jewish Studies, Literature, Russian, Translation and Interpretation, Yiddish

Krystyna Untersteiner

Advisory Board Member
Lecturer, Part-Time

unterk@uw.edu

Office Hours: Spring 2026: By appointment

Padelford A 210

Polish

Valentina Zaitseva

Associate Teaching Professor

vaz2@uw.edu / (206) 543-0268

Office Hours: Spring 2026: Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:30 p.m. and by appointment

PDL A-213

Language Pedagogy, Russian

Emeriti Faculty

James E. Augerot

Professor Emeritus

bigjim@uw.edu

PDL A-217

Bulgarian, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Romanian, Russian, Slavic

Herbert Coats

Associate Professor Emeritus

Slavic

Galya Diment

Professor Emerita

galya@uw.edu

19th Century, 20th Century, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Comparative Literature, Film/Cinema, Jewish Studies, Modernism, Nabokov, Russian

Jaroslava Soldanova

Assistant Teaching Professor Emerita

jsoldano@uw.edu

Culture, Czech-Slovak, Folklore and Mythology, History

Daniel Waugh

Professor Emeritus

dwaugh@uw.edu

History, Russian

James West

Associate Professor Emeritus

jdwest@uw.edu

19th Century, 20th Century, Art History, Literature, Philosophy, Russian, Translation and Interpretation, West European

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

People - Adjuncts & Affiliates
Name	Title	Email/Phone
Abramova, Svetlana	Affiliate Instructor, Advisory Board Member	abramova@uw.edu (206) 543-1818
Aoki, Michele Anciaux	Affiliate Instructor	michelea@uw.edu
Baraboi, Otilia	Affiliate Instructor	otiliab@uw.edu (206) 543-1818
Biggins, Michael E.	Affiliate Professor; Slavic, Baltic, and East European Studies Librarian	mbiggins@uw.edu (206) 543-5588
Bilaniuk, Laada	Adjunct Professor (Anthropology)	bilaniuk@uw.edu
Cho, Heekyoung	Adjunct Associate Professor (Asian Languages & Literature)	hchohcho@uw.edu
Citko, Barbara	Adjunct Professor (Linguistics)	bcitko@uw.edu
Ferjan Ramírez, Naja	Adjunct Assistant Professor (Linguistics)	naja@uw.edu
Jensen, Claudia	Affiliate Instructor	cjensen@uw.edu
LeBlanc, Ronald	Affiliate Professor, University of New Hampshire	ronald.leblanc@unh.edu
Lemcio, Eugene	Affiliate Professor, Seattle Pacific University	elemcio@spu.edu
Reed, Brian	Adjunct Professor (English)	bmreed@uw.edu
Rewakowicz, Maria	Affiliate Instructor	mrewakow@uw.edu
Šmidchens, Guntis	Adjunct Associate Professor (Scandinavian Studies), Kazickas Family Endowed Professor in Baltic Studies	guntiss@uw.edu

In Memoriam

People - In Memoriam
Name	Title
Gross, Vladimir	Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus
Holdsworth, Nora	Associate Teaching Professor Emerita
Kapetanić, Davor	Professor Emeritus
Kramer, Karl D.	Professor Emeritus
Micklesen, L. Reid	Professor Emeritus