Svetlana Evdokimova is a Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages. She has also served as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Slavic Languages at Brown for nearly ten years. In addition, she has been Randall Advisor, freshman and sophomore advisor for several years. She is also a member of the Faculty Executive Committee.
A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, Evdokimova holds degrees from the St. Petersburg State University, Russia (M.A. French Language and Literature). Her main areas of scholarly interest include, Pushkin, Russian and European Romanticism, Tolstoy, Chekhov, relations between fiction and history, and gender and sexuality in Russian and European literatures. She is editor of Alexander Pushkin's "Little Tragedies": The Poetics of Brevity (Wisconsin University Press, 2003), which was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2004 by Choice. She is currently writing a book on Chekhov's relationship with the Russian intelligentsia and its impact on the formation of his literary self.
Evdokimova is a book review editor of The Pushkin Review.
In 1995-1996, she was the recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. She has served as the National Endowment for the Humanities Panelist for Fellowships for University Teachers for two years.