Dr. Sarah P. Burke joined the Trinity University faculty in 1973 and chaired the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures from 1995 to 2001.  From 2001 to 2006 she served as Associate Vice President for faculty recruitment and development. Dr. Burke received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Texas-Austin. Her specialties are Russian art and literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her publications include articles on Russian Avant-Garde art, the modernist writer A.M. Remizov, and Russian folk art.

Dr. Bruce T. Holl joined the Trinity University faculty as Assistant Professor of Russian in 1991 and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1997. Dr. Holl received the Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His dissertation, Don Quixote and the Russian Novel: A Comparative Analysis, traced the influence of Cervantes' Don Quixote on novels of Aleksandr Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Fedor Dostoevskii, Ivan Turgenev, Andrei Platonov, and Fedor Sologub. His publications include articles on The Archpriest Avvakum, Nikolai Gogol, Fedor Sologub, and Marina Tsvetaeva. He is the editor and author of Russian Notes, a compendium of news and commentary on Russia.

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