Meet New GSLL Faculty!
We are happy to announce that GSLL successfully completed听 searches for the positions of Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and Instructor of Nordic Studies. Please welcome our outstanding new colleagues:
Assistant Professor of Russian Studies Jillian Porter

Dr. Porter is currently at work on a second manuscript, entitled听The Art of the Queue: Bodies in Wait from the Revolution to the Post-Soviet Era.听This book explores standing in line as a paradigmatic experience of Soviet everyday life and a generator of aesthetic forms. Porter was awarded a 2015-16 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University鈥檚 Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies in support of the project
Before coming to the University of Colorado, Porter was Assistant Professor of Russian and Affiliate Faculty in Film and Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma. As a Colorado native whose family roots on the Front Range reach back to the 1860s, Porter is thrilled to join the faculty at CU and to contribute to public education in her home state.听
In 2017-18, Dr. Porter will teach such important courses as RUSS 4811 鈥淣ineteenth-Century Russian Literature鈥 (Fall),听 RUSS 4451/5551 鈥淐hekhov鈥 (Fall), a new course RUSS 3705 鈥淐rimes of Passion鈥 (Spring) and RUSS/FILM 3211 鈥淗istory of Russian Cinema.鈥
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Instructor of Nordic Studies Jackson Crawford

In 2017-18, Dr. Crawford will teach such popular courses as SCAN 2202 鈥淰ikings鈥,听 SCAN 3204 鈥淪agas,鈥 and SCAN 3202 鈥淥ld Norse Myth.鈥
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