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Edna Andrews, Professor and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literature and Director, CSEEES

Office Location: | 321B Languages Building |
Office Phone: | (919) 660-3142, (919) 660-3140 |
Email Address: | ![]() ![]() |
Web Page: | http://ca-www.aas.duke.edu/~eda |
Teaching (Fall 2025):
- HOUSECS 59.02, HOUSE COURSE (SP TOP)
Synopsis
- Keohane 4B 402 SEM, M 05:15 PM-06:45 PM
- MUSIC 191FS.01, MUSIC, MEANINGS, AND THE BRAIN
Synopsis
- Languages 320, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
- (also cross-listed as NEUROSCI 115FS.01)
- Languages 320, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
- FOCUS 195FS.17, SPECIAL TOPICS IN FOCUS
Synopsis
- FreemanCtr 002, W 06:15 PM-07:15 PM
- LINGUIST 216FS.01, NEUROSCIENCE / HUMAN LANGUAGE
Synopsis
- Languages 320, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- (also cross-listed as NEUROSCI 116FS.01)
- Languages 320, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- RUSSIAN 401.01, ADVANCED RUSSIAN
Synopsis
- Languages 320, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- RUSSIAN 505.01, SEMIOTICS OF CULTURE
Synopsis
- Languages 320, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
- (also cross-listed as LINGUIST 505.01)
- Languages 320, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
- Education:
Ph.D. Indiana University at Bloomington 1984 PhD Honorary Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia 1991 MA Indiana University/Bloomington 1980 BS University of Alabama 1979
- Specialties:
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Linguistics
Russian
- Research Interests: Russian Language & Culture, Language & Memory, Semiotics, and Textual Analysis
- Keywords:
- Eurasia • Russia • Russian language • Russian culture • Semiotics
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Sexton, DP; Voyvodic, JT; Tong, E; Andrews, E; Grant, GA, Resting-state functional MRI in pediatric epilepsy: a narrative review., Childs Nerv Syst, vol. 41 no. 1 (February, 2025), pp. 116 [doi] [abs]
- Andrews, E; Bierman, H; Hannon, B; Ling, H, Semiosis and embodied cognition: The relevance of Peircean semiotics to cognitive neuroscience, Sign Systems Studies, vol. 52 no. 1-2 (January, 2024), pp. 49-69 [doi] [abs]
- Eierud, C; Michael, A; Banks, D; Andrews, E, Resting-state functional connectivity in lifelong musicians., Psychoradiology, vol. 3 (January, 2023), pp. kkad003 [doi] [abs]
- Andrews, E; Eierud, C; Banks, D; Harshbarger, T; Michael, A; Rammell, C, Effects of Lifelong Musicianship on White Matter Integrity and Cognitive Brain Reserve., Brain Sci, vol. 11 no. 1 (January, 2021) [doi] [abs]
- Andrews, E, Lotman and Cognitive Neuroscience, in Companion to Juri Lotman A Semiotic Theory of Culture (January, 2021), pp. 476-488, ISBN 9781350181618 [doi]