John Pendergast

John Pendergast is an Assistant Professor of Russian at West Point. He holds doctoral and master's degrees in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York, a master's degree in Russian Language and Literature from the University of Arizona, and a bachelor's degree in Music from Birmingham-Southern College. A graduate of the Russian program at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, his research focuses on music and letters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia and...See more

John Pendergast is an Assistant Professor of Russian at West Point. He holds doctoral and master's degrees in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York, a master's degree in Russian Language and Literature from the University of Arizona, and a bachelor's degree in Music from Birmingham-Southern College. A graduate of the Russian program at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, his research focuses on music and letters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia and Germany. See less