Slavic Department faculty members Yana Hashamova and Angela Brintlinger have been promoted to Full Professor! Their promotions received final approval from the OSU Board of Trustees on June 7, 2013, and will take effect on September 1.

Yana has also been appointed as Chair of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures.

Yana's work centers on Russian and Balkan film and culture, comparative literature and the arts, critical theory, and identity and gender studies. She strives to establish links between political ideology, critical psychoanalysis, and cinema, while analyzing post-Soviet conditions. Her most recent work explores film representations of trafficking in women. Among other activities, she is Co-PI on a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a Sawyer Seminar in 2013-2014 that will compare culture, language, religion, and nationalism in the Balkans and South Asia.

Angela's research interests relate to Russian literature and culture from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Her most recent work looks at the experience of war in Soviet culture in the 20th century and the war hero as a trope in literature. In Autumn 2013 she returns to OSU after working as a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer at the Uniwersytet Warszawski (Warsaw, Poland), where she taught and conducted research for her project “World War II, Afghanistan, and Chechnya in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture.”

Congratulations to Angela and Yana!