Andrew M. Drozd

Andrew M. Drozd is an Associate Professor of Russian at the Department of Modern Languages and Classics, University of Alabama. He serves as the Russian Program Director and Russian Minor Advisor, specializing in 19th-century Russian literature, Czech-Russian literary interrelations, and Slavic folklore.

• PhD, Indiana University (1995)
• Teaches courses: First-Year/Second-Year Russian, Russian Phonetics, Business Russian, Russian Folklore, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Russian Science Fiction

His research examines the intersections of Russian and Czech literary traditions during political upheavals, with a focus on Chernyshevskii’s works and their ideological impacts. Recent publications include Modern Czech Literature: Writing in Times of Political Trauma (2025) and co-edited volumes on Russian radicalism and Darwin’s reception in Russia.

The 15 most recent articles reveal a trajectory from 19th-century Russian critiques of Darwinism to contemporary Czech literary analysis, spanning dialectology, intertextuality, and ideological narrative structures.

Dr. Drozd’s editorial work includes Revisiting Russian Radicals (2024) and Reading Darwin in Imperial Russia (2023), alongside contributions to journals like Slavic and East European Journal and Germano-Slavica.