SIPA: School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

SIPA Faculty

Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
Milbank Hall, Room 226B
Professor and Chair, Slavic Department, Barnard College; Director, Harriman Institute at Columbia University
Phone: 212-854-2059
cn29@columbia.edu

Biography:
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy is professor and chair of the Slavic Department at Barnard College. She is also the director of the Harriman Institute at SIPA.

Some of her publications include Abram Tertz and the Poetics of Crime (Yale 1995), Strolls with Pushkin translated by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and Slava Yastremski, with introduction by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (Yale 1993), The Politics of Tradition: Rerooting Russian Literature After Stalin with Richard Borden (Duke, forthcoming), Under the Sky of My Africa: Pushkin and Blackness edited with Nicole Svobodny and Ludmilla Trigos, (Northwestern, under consideration), and many others.

Professor Nepomnyashchy holds a BA and an MA from Brown University (1973). She received her PhD from Columbia University in 1987.

In addition to her academic responsibilities, Professor Nepomnyashchy is in the Advisory Council of the Kennan Institute and she is the chair of the Executive Committee of the Slavic Division of the Modern Language Association. She is a Member of AAASS Mid-Atlantic Regional Executive Committee.