People - Faculty

Jose Alaniz

José Alaniz

Interim Chair Autumn 2025 - Winter 2026, Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator
jos23@uw.edu
Office Hours: Winter 2026: by appointment
PDL A-210D
20th Century, Comics, Comparative Literature, Culture, Disability, Ecocriticism, Film/Cinema, Russian
Professor Bojan Belic

Bojan Belić

Teaching Professor, Dept. Languages Coordinator
bojan@uw.edu / (206) 221-4281
Office Hours: Winter 2026: Mondays 11:30 - 1:00 p.m., and Wednesdays 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. in person, and by appointment
PDL A-214
Bosnian Croatian Montenegrin Serbian, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Russian, Slavic
Gordana Crnković

Gordana Crnković

Professor and Chair
crnkovic@uw.edu / (206) 543-7641
Office Hours: Autumn 2025: On sabbatical
PDL A-212
Bosnian Croatian Montenegrin Serbian, Comparative Literature, East European, Film/Cinema, Literature
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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
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Piotr Florczyk

Associate Professor
piotrf@uw.edu
Office Hours: Winter 2026: Fridays 10:00 - 11:15 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

Barbara Henry

Associate Professor
bjhenry@uw.edu
Office Hours: Winter 2026: Thursdays 11:00 - 1:00 p.m. online
PDL A-211
19th Century, 20th Century, Classics, Comedy, Comic Theory, Drama, Folklore and Mythology, Jewish Studies, Literature, Russian, Yiddish
Agnieszka Jezyk

Agnieszka Jezyk

Maria Kott Endowed Assistant Professor of Polish Studies
ajezyk@uw.edu / (206) 543-2605
Office Hours: Winter 2026: Fridays 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. and by appointment
PDL A-215
European Avant-Garde, Horror Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Polish, Polish 20th and 21st-Century Literature and Film, Psychoanalysis
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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

Zoya Polack

Associate Teaching Professor
zpolack@uw.edu
Office Hours: Winter 2026: Mondays and Thursdays 10:30 - 11:20 a.m., and by appointment | Russian Table: Fridays 10:30 - 11:20
PDL A-210F
Russian, Ukrainian
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Sasha Senderovich

Associate Professor
senderov@uw.edu
Office Hours: Autumn 2025: 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
Valentina Zaitseva

Valentina Zaitseva

Associate Teaching Professor
vaz2@uw.edu / (206) 543-0268
Office Hours: Winter 2026: Wednesdays 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. and by appointment
PDL A-213
Language Pedagogy, Russian

Emeriti Faculty

James E. Augerot

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

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

Jaroslava Soldanova

Assistant Teaching Professor Emerita
jsoldano@uw.edu
Culture, Czech-Slovak, Folklore and Mythology, History
Daniel Waugh

Daniel Waugh

Professor Emeritus
dwaugh@uw.edu
History, Russian
James West

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