Faculty of SPREES

Michael Denner

Michael Denner is the director of the University Honors Program, professor of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and editor of the Tolstoy Studies Journal, an annual refereed journal.

Email: mdenner@stetson.edu
Phone: (386) 822-7265
Office: SPREES House

Mayhill Fowler

Mayhill Fowler, Ph.D. (Princeton University), is the director of Stetson's program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and assistant professor in History. She teaches and researches the cultural history of Ukraine, Russia and Eastern Europe. Her first book, Beau Monde on Empire's Edge: State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine (Toronto, 2017), explains the creation of culture both Soviet and Ukrainian and the intersection of culture and politics in the region today. Her next projects focus on military entertainment and Soviet actresses.

Email: mfowler@stetson.edu
Phone: (386) 822-7547
Office: Elizabeth Hall 306

Katya Kudryavtseva

Katya Kudryavtseva specializes in art of the twentieth century with a focus on the intersecting trajectories of art history, politics, art institutions and business and their role in the development of the canon of modern and contemporary art.

Email: kkudryav@stetson.edu
Phone: (386) 822-7340
Office: Sampson Hall

Jelena Petrovic

Jelena Petrovic is an assistant professor of communication and media studies. Her research centers on online news media and their relevance for the representation of national imaginaries; their mediating influence on identity politics across diverse and international contexts; and the discursive tensions between media structures and audiences' need to participate in institutional meaning making.

Email: jpetrov1@stetson.edu
Phone: (386) 740-2503
Office: Elizabeth Hall 207B

Daniil Zavlunov

Daniil Zavlunov is a musicologist specializing in nineteenth-century music, with a particular emphasis on the Russian and Italian operatic traditions. Over the last decade, his research has focused on the works and world of Mikhail Glinka. At present, Dr. Zavlunov is writing a cultural history of opera in Russia during the reign of Nicholas I (1825-1855), which draws heavily on new archival sources.

Email: dzavluno@stetson.edu
Phone: (386) 822-7987
Office: Presser Hall 345A

Snezhana Zheltoukhova

Snezhana Zheltoukhova (Ph. D., Second Language Acquisition and Russian, University of Wisconsin-Madison) has been Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian and Director of Language Commons since 2017. Her research interests are within the field of second language acquisition and pedagogy, specifically foreign language tutoring, analysis of discourse and interaction, sociocultural theory, and technology-mediated language learning.

Email: szheltoukhova@stetson.edu
Phone: (386) 822-7282
Office: Sampson Hall 128