Michael S. Flier

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1968, M.A. 1964
Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology
Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Contact Information
Slavic Department, Harvard University
Barker Center 368
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-2178
flier@fas.harvard.edu
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Research Interests
Slavic linguistics, semiotics of medieval East Slavic culture.

Current Projects
A book dealing with the semiotics of the Apocalypse in medieval Rus’; articles on Ukrainian case government and Ukrainian-Russian code mixing.

Selected Publications
"Rasshifrovka koda: Obraz tsaria v obriade Verbnogo voskreseniia v Moskovskom gosudarstve" (2001).

" 'Monomakhov tron' Ivana Groznogo v prostranstve pered ikonostasom" (2000).

"Surzhyk: The Rules of Engagement" (1999).

"Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Ukrainian Phoneme j in Context" (1998).