2022 SEELC Newsletter

Letter from the Chair

It has been a busy academic year. Students are scheduling their honors defenses, faculty continue to develop new curriculum and teach our classes, and we are also researching, presenting and…

Welcome Dr. Sunnie-Rucker Chang!

The Department of Slavic and East European Studies was thrilled to welcome Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang, who joined us in autumn 2022 as Associate Professor of Slavic with a 25% appointment in…

Welcome Dr. Dmitry Arzyutov!

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures is thrilled to announce the addition of Dr. Dmitry Arzyutov to our faculty! Dr. Arzyutov comes to Ohio State from the History,…

Welcome to SEELC!

In 2022, we welcomed several new faces to our department: Lecturers: Lilia Caserta Graduate Students: Andrey…

Faculty Updates

Dima ArzyutovSpecial Issue:“Entangled Indigenous Historicities from the Eurasian North.” (guest editors: Dmitry Arzyutov and Karina Lukin) Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological…

Event Highlights

As we moved through 2022 and into 2023, more of our events returned in their pre-pandemic form. Students and faculty alike were overjoyed at being able to regularly participate in events outside of…

Dr. Gleissner Creates an Archive on Food During the Pandemic

COVID-19 disrupted the ways we make, consume, and think about food. Together with his collaborators, our colleague Dr. Gleissner created a community archive of how we ate during the pandemic. As the…

Student Updates

Graduate Students Successfully Defend Dissertations Natalia Sletova defended her PhD dissertation entitled “L2 writing as a scaffold for L2 speaking grammatical accuracy in a text…