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Alumni Newsletter Vol. 11 College of Arts & Sciences Fall 2006 Airmen return to Bloomington for reunion ay 22–24, 2006, Indiana Univer- of the linguists went on to the National in Bloomington was the first opportunity sity Bloomington proudly hosted Security Agency at Fort George G. Meade, to see each other since leaving San Angelo, Mthe first reunion of the Russian Maryland, for three more months of train- Texas, in the fall of 1962. Half of the origi- II U.S. Air Force Russian Language School ing. The remaining members of the Russian nal members of the detachment attended detachment, 44 years after its students II detachment went to survival school and the reunion. Two of the veterans had died, graduated from their training course. flight training prior to their assignment to five were not located, and the rest were un- For more than nine months during the bases throughout the world. able to attend due to personal reasons. academic year 1961–62, 52 members of the Though the linguists would eventually The reunion officially began with a U.S. Air Force Security Service underwent take on specific positions and duties in the reception in the Indiana Memorial Union, intensive Russian language preparation for Air Force, their primary mission was to followed by an informal gathering at the assignments as Russian linguists. intercept Soviet communications and ex- group’s most memorable establishment The airmen’s grueling course of study tract strategic intelligence for the National — Nick’s English Hut on Kirkwood at Indiana University included six hours Security Agency. Thanks to their advanced Avenue. The next morning, the retired of language study per day (not including linguistic and military training, members of airmen went on a walking tour of campus homework) for more than nine months, the IU Air Force detachment would play and visited their old detachment facilities. followed by equally intensive military intel- pivotal roles in intelligence gathering dur- After lunch, the group met in Ballantine ligence training in San Angelo, Texas, lasting ing the Cuban Missile Crisis and through- Hall, where IU Vice President Lynn Coyne another three months. Upon completion out the Cold War. welcomed the former detachment back of this program, approximately one-third For most of the airmen, the 2006 reunion (continued on page 2)

Members of the Russian II detachment in 1961–62 were, from left, fourth row: Upton Bowden, Monte Maxwell, Dave Clark, Joe Debelak, Richard Edmonds, James Martin, Roger Gillespie, Ben Butler, Bill McNeely, Gordie Swanson, Jim McGee, Bill Purdy, and Isaac Wade; third row: Aus Miller, Dave Matousek, Scotty Taggart, George Fowler, Orvis Deremiah, Frank Dotson, Larry Allingham, Steve Dershimer, Norm Blackburn, John Dudinskie, Nelson Whitt, Dave Shepard, Jay Wolbert, and Angelo Scarola; second row: John Mulvey, Jim Jenkins, Gene Phelan, Bill Duncan, Frank Miller, Paul Kiesel, Howard Smith, Bob Stromberg, Joe Bressi, Ron Schmidt, Loren Myers, and Chuck Kerwood; front row: Jim Johnson, Ladd Sutherland, Jim Artlip, Morgan Tharp, John Sheehan, Jim Slater, Mike Berry, Bill Kilian, Chuck Shearer, and Tex Gilbert. Not shown: graduated, Buck Scholderer; not graduated, Stan Addy, Wayne Evans, and Mark Popovich.  Chapter closes on literature professor’s career odona Kiziria received her PhD in Moscow, opportunity did not knock in from Indiana University in 1979, the Soviet Union, but fate brought her Dbut she started teaching here eight to Bloomington. She married a graduate years before that. This year, she retired after student at Indiana University whom she 35 years in Bloomington classrooms, three had first met in the Department of Oriental top teaching awards, and many accolades. Languages at Moscow State. Her route to Bloomington was circu- Upon her arrival, then chair of the itous and fortuitous. Her scholarly endeav- department William Edgerton offered her ors took her first from Tbilisi to Moscow, a job teaching Georgian — something for where she studied Indian literature at which she is now well-known, but at the Moscow State University. It was a practi- time she was “devastated.” This was not cal choice based on her general love of her specialty or even an area of interest; she literature and the opportunities afforded by was merely a native speaker. The job was as joining a nascent field of study. However, appealing as teaching French in Georgia, even before she graduated, obstacles began but she took the job anyway. However, en- to appear on her scholarly path. She ran thusiasm turned out to be weak all around, into difficulties with the KGB for being too and the class was only offered for a year. friendly with foreigners and was told she Unable to follow the scholarly pursuits was politically unreliable. She was barred she had begun in Moscow, she went back Dodona Kiziria from a trip to India with her classmates. If to school as a graduate student at IU in she could not go to Soviet-friendly India, back to Moscow to study at the All-Union the Department of Slavic Languages and she wondered where she could go. She Institute of Cinematography. At 25, she Literatures. During her coursework, she went back to Georgia, but could find only was considered too old for acting, and she gave a talk on Bulgakov, and her classmates unsatisfactory work as a French teacher. felt unconfident about directing. That left were so impressed that they asked the chair Plan B turned out to be something of the history and theory of cinema, and, of the department to let her teach Russian a blessing, since theater and cinema had thus, she began the work that she has con- literature. Consent was granted, and she always been among her passions. She went tinued ever since. After finishing her studies (continued on page 3)

IU since 1962 as well as outlined plans for European Institute. REEI director David Reunion new construction, which, incidentally, in- Ransel delivered a talk titled “Russian (continued from page 1) cluded the demolition of the detachment’s Leaders: A Historical Perspective and Some to Bloomington and addressed the topic former dormitories, Brown, Green, and Conclusions about Putin.” Chair of the “The Changing Face of the IU Campus: Monroe halls. Slavic department Ronald Feldstein then 1962–2025.” In his speech, Coyne pointed That afternoon also included a cultural spoke about “Modern Changes in the Rus- out the expansion that has taken place at program organized by the Russian and East sian Lexicon,” which reminded the former linguists of the countless hours they had spent in Bloomington trying to learn the language of their enemy. To the pleasant surprise of many of the veterans, the heavy influence of English business, computer, and pop-culture terminology seemed to make learning Russian today somewhat easier. Immediately after the speeches, the veterans gathered to sing a few Russian songs from their past. Emotions ran high as they sang and reminisced about former teachers and fellow students. Two members of the detachment re- turned to earn degrees from the IU Slavic department after completing their service in the Air Force. John Sheehan, BA’66, MAT’67, and David Matousek, BA’69. To some of the veterans, 1962 seemed like a lifetime ago. Forty-four years had come and gone, the Soviet Union had fallen, and the Cold War had ended; yet, Indiana U.S. Air Force Russian II class reunion, May 23, 2006, attendees were, from left, fourth row: University had forever left its mark in the Beall Bowden, Dave Clark, Richard Edmonds, Ben Butler, Jim McGee, and Bill Purdy; third lives of these young Air Force Russian lin- row: Dave Matousek, George Fowler, Steve Dershimer, Norm Blackburn, and John Dudin- guists. The group is continuing a Web site skie; second row: John Mulvey, Kent Jenkins, Gene Phelan, Bill Duncan, Bob Stromberg, and (www.russian-two.org/) and plans another Loren Myers; first row: Jim Artlip, Gene Tharp, John Sheehan, and Bill Kilian. Not pictured: reunion in 2008. Roger Gillespie, Chuck Kerwood, Austin Miller, Gordie Swanson, and Nelson Whitt. — Paul Anderson, REEI MA student  Departmental News

Summer learning plus fun: SWSEEL completes its 56th year ince 1951, thousands of students have Institute, a program run by a consortium of Scome to Indiana University for sum- universities that host it in turns. Remember Wolins mer study of Slavic, East European, and Despite — or perhaps because of — four Veterans of the Summer Workshop in Central Asian languages. Jerzy Kolodziej, hours of intense language instruction and the –90s will remember vividly the director of the program, looks forward three hours of homework daily, plus a lively LeRoy Wolins (May 26, 1929–Dec. to thousands more. In comments at the cultural program including sports, , 17, 2005). He ran “Russian Lan- closing concert, he implored the students choir, cooking, drama, and an evening guage Specialties” dealing in Russian to “go forth and multiply, and send us your lecture series, students were impressed and and Slavic language publications children. If you have no children, come pleased with the workshop. , Lisa Reijula until his retirement in 2002. Many back and study another language.” BM’89, MM’96, who studied Estonian, ap- of the books in the libraries of IU This year, 44 instructors taught 212 preciated the intensity of the program. “It faculty and graduate students from students 20 languages: 73 took Russian, was amazing how much we learned,” she those years came from the sales (and 28 studied East European languages, 28 says. “Because you don’t have other classes, raucous book auctions) that Wolins the languages of the Baltic states, 63 in you can devote all your energy to your lan- held annually during the workshop Central Asian languages, nine in Georgian, guage. … It was fun meeting other people and at national conferences. Wolins’s and 11 in Yiddish. The Baltic courses were interested in the Baltics and the region.” obituary appeared in the Chicago available this year and last because of IU’s After SWSEEL, Reijula took her new lan- Sun-Times on Dec. 23, 2005. participation in the Baltic Studies Summer (continued on back page)

Chapter in her native tongue. “Gradually, teaching “He was thrilled to learn that I knew her Georgian became a new area with which I and said she was, by far, his favorite Geor- (continued from page 2) fell passionately in love,” she says. gian ,” Richter says. became both a visiting lecturer and student Kiziria has taught Georgian every sum- In 1987, Kiziria made her first extended at the same time in the same department. mer for the past 20 years, the last 18 at stay in Georgia since leaving, and, there- Nine years later, she defended her disserta- SWSEEL in Bloomington. She has also after, as the independence movement tion at IU, “The Influence of Cinema on offered upper-level Georgian to students as grew and challenges mounted following Literature.” Her courses on Russian and an independent study course. She collabo- independence, she returned at least twice East European film have been among the rated with Aronson on a textbook, Geor- yearly. She became a frequent commenta- most popular in the department. gian Language and Culture: A Continuing tor on the Voice of America and in the local Kiziria’s run of teaching literature and Course. This and other study materials she Georgian press. Kiziria built a reputation as film at IU ended last semester. Her last prepared are now widely used. a keen analyst of political affairs who deeply Georgian language course was summer Kiziria loves her work in the classroom, cared about Georgia but did not have ties 2006. She has won the FACET award too strong to any party or faction to for excellence in teaching, the IU Fred- taint her arguments with deep partisan- eric Bachman Lieber Memorial Award Kiziria looks back with pride on her ship. Poems were written to her, and for outstanding teaching, and the Slavic achievements as a teacher and public she was twice asked to be a presidential department best teacher award. In candidate, but she declined, preferring her final evaluations last semester, one intellectual, but what gave her joy to keep the distance necessary to be an student wrote, “The beauty with which astute observer. you speak about literature and passion daily over her long years at Indiana Bringing intellectual rigor to public is rare. … You inspire me.” Such com- University were her colleagues. life is important to Kiziria. For her, ments are typical, but this year, Kiziria there are few boundaries between schol- felt particularly moved to have them in arly, public, and private life. This is evi- her final semester. but she is also active outside of it. She is an dent in her teaching as well. “I taught about Kiziria has no particular teaching accomplished poet, but, she modestly says, literature and cinema, but I also taught philosophy, but she says, “I just love very “Every Georgian writes poetry.” She is also about it as part of my life. I grew up with much everything that I teach. Maybe this is a public intellectual engaged in the politics these books and poetry. They had signifi- something the students feel. … Maybe this of Georgia. Larry Richter recalls that when cance for life in the Soviet Union. Students is the only thing that I loved in my life, and he was last in Georgia, in 1994, his group are interested to hear what it was like to read this love lasts.” was assigned a young college student who The Gulag Archipelago or The First Circle If she was initially repulsed by the knew some English to function as guide. when they were banned,” she says. thought of teaching Georgian, Howard In his first conversation with the guide, Kiziria looks back with pride on her Aronson of the University of Chicago Richter mentioned that he had a good achievements as a teacher and public intel- changed her mind in an unusual way. He friend back home who was Georgian and lectual, but what gave her joy daily over her used her as a native-speaker “informant” had grown up in Tbilisi. The guide asked long years at Indiana University were her in his own research, and the questions he the friend’s name, and as soon he heard the colleagues. Their warmth, friendship, and asked her and the observations he made response “Dodona Kiziria,” he immediately acceptance gave her a sense of belonging about her speech piqued her own interest started reciting Kiziria’s poetry by heart! and made Indiana University feel like home.  New society grows at Indiana University Bloomington n Sept. 8–10, more than 120 The overwhelming success of the first SLS Dues will be instituted, and The Journal of scholars hailing from roughly meeting, however, led to the decision to Slavic Linguistics, published by IU’s Slavica O25 nations met in Bloomington transform the organization. Henceforth, Publishers and edited by Steven Franks, for the inaugural conference of the Slavic there will be annual conferences: the 2007 will become the official SLS journal. Future Linguistics Society. Presentations at the meeting is to take place in Berlin, and plans for the society remain open; it looks conference were similarly far-ranging, ad- 2008 will be held at Ohio State University. forward to ever larger and livelier meetings. dressing topics from historical linguistics to cognitive and computational issues to child language acquisition. The program included about 85 talks, with two parallel IU faculty, students at SLS conference sessions on Friday and three on Saturday • Elena Chernishenko served as chair for the panel “Word Order.” and Sunday (www.indiana.edu/~sls2006/). • Lidija Cvikic served as chair for the panel “Child Language Acquisition.” The Slavic Linguistics Society was found- • Stuart Davis served as chair for the panel “Issues in Slavic Phonology.” ed as the result of a roundtable meeting • Ronald Feldstein gave a talk, “On the Formal and Semantic Structure of Dual organized by Steven Franks at the December Simplexes and Dual Perfectives,” as a keynote speaker. 2004 American Association of Teachers of • George Fowler served as chair of the panel “Agreement and Coordination.” Slavic and East European Languages confer- • Steven Franks served as chair for the panel “Russian Aspect.” ence. It is the first organization of its kind, • Jeffrey Holdeman served as chair of the panel “Sociolinguistics and Variation.” either domestic or international. While AAT- • Vselvolod M. Kapatsinski presented his paper “Syntactic Variation in Russian: SEEL and other area-studies organizations Adversative Conjunctions and Sentence Production.” include Slavic linguistics in their activities, • Natalya B. Muzinich presented her paper “Automated Text Segmentation of the SLS seeks to take the field from the mar- Russian Child-directed Speech.” gins to the center. Instead of being a subset • Elena Petroska gave a talk, “Collectivity, Collective Plural and Collective Nouns of scholarly endeavor, Slavic linguistics — in in Macedonian.” all its variety — is the focus. • Miriam Shrager presented “Neutralization of Word-final Voicing in Russian.” Until September, the SLS was strictly a • Rex Sprouse served as chair for the panel “Second Language Acquisition.” virtual society. Its arena of activity was the Internet, centered on a Web site created and managed by Gilbert Rappaport of the University of Texas (www.utexas.edu/ world/sls/). On the site, linguists of Slavic Two new faculty members join department languages can meet, discuss, and share New teachers of Macedonian and Ukrainian started at IU this information. The site offers a directory of fall. Elena Petroska is teaching elementary Macedonian. She more than 400 members (membership in has taught Macedonian in the IU Summer Workshop several the virtual society has been free, available times, but is offering the course during the regular school by simply registering at the home page) to year for the first time, with four students enrolled. Petroska put scholars in touch with each other. It has also taught at the University of also includes a resource page with informa- Saints Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, tion about relevant bookstores, confer- where she earned her PhD, with a dis- ences, courses, schools, learned societies sertation on “The Categories of Quan- and organizations, journals, publishers, tity in Contemporary Macedonian.” Elena Petroska research and discussion groups, and more. Olena Chernishenko is teaching in- The society manages a listserv as well. troductory Ukrainian, also with four students, as well as fourth- “The idea is to stay eclectic and open,” and fifth-year Russian. Chernishenko had previously taught Franks says. Members include those Russian at American University and Princeton University, as involved in Slavic and general linguistics, well as at Beloit College, where she earned her BA. She is now language acquisition, and pedagogy. “They Olena Chernisherko finishing her dissertation at Princeton on “Control in Slavic.” are people interested in the same languages, the same phenomena, but from different IU cooperates with Macedonian universities perspectives.” In summer 2006, Indiana University and University of Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, The IU conference was primarily put Macedonia, signed an “Agreement of Cooperation,” which has laid the groundwork together by Franks and Laura Janda of the for future collaborative projects and exchanges between the two partners. As the first University of North Carolina, with financial concrete result of this agreement, the two universities agreed that Elena Petroska, help from various units at IU, including the associate professor in the Department of Macedonian and South Slavic Languages Department of Linguistics, the Department in the Faculty of Philology “Blaže Koneski” at the University of Cyril and Metho- of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Slavica dius (UKIM) in Skopje, would be in residence in Bloomington during the 2006–07 Publishers, and the Russian and East Eu- academic year. Petroska will teach Macedonian language during the academic year and ropean Institute. It was opened by Patrick at the Summer Workshop in East European and Central Asian Languages in 2007. O’Meara, dean of International Programs. IU is interested in expanding the scope and quantity of courses in Macedonian studies The Bloomington meeting marked a and will work with UKIM and the Macedonian community in the United States to transition from a virtual society to a more develop other research and language study opportunities for American students. mature organization. Up to then there had been no dues, no journal, and no officers.

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aron Beaver won the Faculty Mentor European Humanities University (in exile) language. He has two recent publications: Aof the Year Award 2005–06; he was in Vilnius, Lithuania. She is chairing and Czytac´ po wiez˙y Babel. Komparatystyka- selected by graduate students in the depart- co-organizing with Professor Bill Johnston hermeneutyka-przekład, [in:] Literatura i ment. In March, he participated in an inter- (IU) and colleagues from Harvard and hermeneutyka. Ku nowej koiné. Eds. Jar- disciplinary roundtable at a conference on University of Missouri an international, nuszkiewicz Michał, Katarzyna Kuczyn´ska- time in world poetry held at IU. In May, he interdisciplinary conference on cultural Koschany. Poznan´ 2006; and “The Vale gave a paper titled “Two Kinds of Un- memory, “Polish-German Post/Memory: of Soul-making.” Internalizacja toposu knowability in Derzhavin” at the University Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics,” to be held at podróz˙y w poezji A. Mickiewicza i J. Keatsa, of Chicago’s annual Slavic Forum. IU in April 2007, co-sponsored by the Pol- [in] Literatura – kulturoznawstwo – Uni- Justyna Beinek won a writing-teaching ish Studies Center, REEI, West European wersytet. Ksie˛ga ofiarowana F. Ziejce w 65 grant from the Campus Writing Program Studies, and the Herder Institute from rocznice˛ urodzin. Eds. Bogusław Dopart, to develop a new course, Polish Cinema, Marburg, Germany. She has organized a Jacek Popiel, Marian Stala, Kraków 2006. which will be offered in spring 2007. Last roundtable on Polish studies and compara- He also presented “In Search of (Creative) summer, she spent a month at Warsaw tive literature for the November AAASS Diversity. New Perspectives in Polish Liter- University, Poland, on a faculty exchange conference in Washington, D.C., and she ary and Cultural Studies Abroad” (round- program between IU and UW. In June, she will participate in a roundtable on the table) and “Comparative Literature: Mental gave a talk on contemporary Polish popular image of the West in Slavic literatures. Cartography?” (paper) at a conference of music at a conference, “Capitalism/Patri- Tomasz Bilczewski returned for a Polish studies scholars held at University of archy: Post-Communist Cultures,” at the second year as visiting instructor of Polish (continued on page 6)

Slavic language and culture — Live in Indiana high schools! n April, some of the finest concert halls Holdeman, IU Slavic language coordinator, Russian superstitions. Whistling is now Iin Russia were graced by Indiana high on Russian music with attention to Russian expected to decline at these schools. school student musicians when the Carmel guitar and balalaika traditions. Students had fun learning to pause and High School orchestra performed in the It was the first time the orchestra had sit down before a trip, make a wish if sitting second annual International Youth Music traveled abroad, and in its final concert it between two people with the same name, Festival in St. Petersburg. treated Russian, Canadian, and American refrain from new undertakings on Fridays, Before leaving for Russia, the students diplomats to the music of Shostakovich, and curse each other on exam days. Foreign enthusiastically participated in an eight-week Tchaikovsky, Gershwin, and others. The customs can produce a few giggles, but the language and culture course offered by Carmelites performed at the invitation of students appreciated Holdeman’s explana- Alice Tobin, Cert/BA’02, MA/MPA’05. the Russian Ministry of Culture. tions of the origins of the superstitions. The class, which included students and their In May, Holdeman and Denise Gardiner, Holdeman got first-year students at Jef- parents, met once a week to learn the Cyril- REEI assistant director, traveled to three ferson High School singing during a talk lic alphabet and essential language survival other Indiana high schools as part of ongo- about Russian folk music. The students are skills, while also becoming acquainted with ing outreach activities in . taught by IU Slavic department alumnus various features of St. Petersburg and Rus- Holdeman stirred the interest of students Todd Golding, MA’93, MAT’96. Students sian culture. The preparatory course was at Jefferson, Andrean, and Merrillville at Andrean High School are instructed by topped off with a presentation by Jeffrey high schools with a lively presentation on IU alumna Becky Goins, MA’85. Outreach activities continued this fall with a teacher-training workshop on and performance of Václav Havel’s Unveiling, one of his “Vane˘k” plays. The workshop took place on Oct. 20 at the John Waldron Arts Center and introduced area literature, drama, social studies, and history teachers to Havel as a playwright and to the histori- cal period of the play. As part of the workshop, Bronislava Volkova discussed Havel’s place in and introduced the play in the context of 1970s Czechoslovakia. Maria Bucur gave a broad historic introduction to the central European region under com- munism. Jeffrey Holdeman moderated a discussion on the Volkova and Bucur presen- tations and performed Czech dissident songs between talks. The play was performed by Jeffrey Holdeman, center left, and Becky Goins, MA’85, center right, explain to Andrean the Cardinal Stage Company of Blooming- High School students the origins of some Russian superstitions. ton, Ind.  płótno, król, we młodos´ci.” It is expected to Jeffrey Holdeman presented a paper Faculty notes be published in the proceedings of the con- titled “Lexical evidence of the Home- (continued from page 5) ference. Feldstein will also have two papers land of the Russian Old Believers in Erie, Toronto in February 2006. published in invited Festschrifts: “Accentual Pennsylvania” at the December AATSEEL Olena Chernishenko completed the Base Forms of Russian Nouns and Their convention in Washington, D.C. He also 2006 Full Oral Proficiency Interview Tester Relation to Nominative and Genitive,” chaired the meeting of the Slavic language Training Workshop for Russian held at Festschrift for Charles Gribble (Slavica, coordinators committee at the conference. Middlebury College in July. 2006); and “Polish trot reflexes and the In March, Holdeman presented “Surnames Lidija Cvikic has returned for a second segmental properties of metathesis,” Fest- of the Russian Old Believers of the Eastern year as visiting instructor of Croatian and schrift for Jože Toporišicˇ (Slovenia). United States: Who, What, Where, When, Serbian language. In July, she taught the Paul M. Foster Jr., senior lecturer in the and Why” at the Midwest Slavic Confer- Croatian language at the University School department, will also continue to serve as ence in Columbus, Ohio. of Croatian Language and Culture (Univer- the director of the Center for Languages of Nina Perlina has returned from her sity of Zagreb). During the last academic the Central Asian Region, which received spring semester 2006 sabbatical leave. year, she participated at two conferences funding under the Title VI program from During the sabbatical, she completed two in the United States (2006 Midwest Slavic the U.S. Department of Education. In papers on Bakhtin’s readings and inter- conference and the 16th Balkan and South the past year he has traveled to Macedo- pretations of Olga Freidenberg’s theories. Slavic Studies) and two conferences in nia to present a paper, “Macedonian as a The papers are based on archival explora- Croatia, where she presented papers about World Language — The Use of Informa- tions of Bakhtinian manuscripts and will be teaching and acquisition of Croatian as a tion Communication Technology in the published in the forthcoming Bakhtinskie second language. She is also one of the Teaching and Learning of Macedonian Chteniia, 2006–07. co-authors of the book about Croatian as Culture,” along with Vladimir Radevski Elena Petroska participated in several a second and foreign language that was at the VI Macedonian–North American conferences with the following papers: published in November 2005 in Croatia Conference on Macedonian Studies held “Information Structure and Word Order (Jelaska, Z. et al. Hrvatski kao drugi i in Ohrid, Macedonia, in August 2006. His in Albanian and Macedonian: The Role strani jezik, Hrvatska sveucilislina naklada, translation The Dialects of Macedonian by of Object Clitics,” at the 15th Balkan and Zagreb, 2005). Božidar Vidoeski was published by Slavica South Slavic Conference at the University In March, Henry Cooper presented Publishers this year and has been warmly of California, Berkeley (March 2006), a paper on the relationship of Croatian welcomed by linguists in both the United along with Mimoza Rista-Dema; and Glagolitic Bible manuscripts to the forma- States and Europe. Foster recently com- “Basic Forms for Omnitemporal and Itera- tion of later Slavic vernacular bibles at pleted the translation of Luan Starova’s tive Present in Macedonian Compared to the Balkan and South Slavic Conference new novel The Balkan Scapegoat as well as a the Other Slavic and Balkan Languages,” in Berkeley, Calif. In August, he gave a short biography of Gane Todorovski. He is at the VI Macedonian–North American paper on in English working on a Bilingual Reader in Macedo- Conference on Macedonian Studies in translation at the VI Macedonian–North nian Literature, a collection of post–World Ohrid, Macedonia (August 2006). She American Macedonian Studies Conference War II Macedonian prose, poetry, and gave a lecture at the Seminar for Macedo- in Ohrid, Macedonia. And in the same drama for students of Macedonian as well nian Language, Literature, and Culture in month, his and Ivan Mladenov’s Anthol- as general audiences. Ohrid, Macedonia (August 2006) — “Cat- ogy of Bulgarian Literature appeared from On May 14–17, Steven Franks traveled egories of Distributivity and Collectivity in Slavica Publishers; it is the third, after Slo- to Belgrade University, where he gave a Macedonian.” She is working on a project vene and Serbian, in a series of South Slavic well-attended lecture titled “Clitic Place- on Balkan languages (Balkanisms) with the literary anthologies in English translation. ment in Bulgarian Compound Tenses: Center for Area Linguistics at the Mace- Macedonian and Croatian volumes are in PF-Side Versus Syntactic Approaches,” as donian Academy of Sciences and Arts in preparation. well as a talk on higher education and the Skopje, Macedonia. Andrew Durkin presented his paper study of linguistics in the United States. Bronislava Volkova delivered a presenta- “Models of Artistic Discourse in Chekov’s This trip followed another from April to tion on the Indiana University Czech pro- ‘In Exile’ and ‘The Student’” at the Phi- May in which Franks taught and conducted gram at the December AATSEEL confer- losophy of Anton Pavlovich Chekov inter- research at Zagreb University. He also had ence. She published “Smrt jako sémiotická national conference on Lake Baikal in June. several publications: a volume, co-edited událost” in the annual collection Listopad An REEI Mellon Endowment Grant-in-Aid with Lavine, Tasseva-Kurktchieva, and (Prague 2005) and original poetry in World supported his travel. Durkin also participat- Filip, called Formal Approaches to Today (September 2005). In ed in a panel in memory of Professor Rob- Linguistics: The Princeton Meeting 2005, February, she gave a lecture at the Univer- ert Maguire of Columbia University at the appeared in 2006; a paper, co-authored sity of Chicago on “Poetry of Exile” as part American Association of Teachers of Slavic with James Lavine, “Case and Word Order of the “Seminar on Minor Slavic Cultures.” and East European Languages convention in Lithuanian,” appeared in Journal of In March, she gave a lecture titled “Exile in Washington, D.C., in December 2005. Linguistics 42 (2006), 239-288; a paper, Inside and Out” at the “Conference on In June, Ronald F. Feldstein gave a pa- “Another Look at li Placement in Bulgar- the Writer Uprooted: Jewish Writing from per and chaired a session at an international ian,” appeared in The Linguistic Review Eastern Europe” at Indiana University. A conference on historical linguistics at the 23.2 (2006); a paper, “Agnostic Move- poetry collection to which she contributed, University of Lodz, Poland. The confer- ment,” appeared in Proceedings of NELS Only the Sea Keeps, which benefits tsunami ence was titled “Diachronia w badaniach XXXVI; and “Adverb Interpolation in the victims, has become a bestseller in India and nad je˛zykiem w dydaktyce szkoły wyz˙szej.” Bulgarian Clitic Cluster” is about to appear has come out in a new edition in Canada. His paper, which was presented in Russian, in A Festschrift for Charles Gribble, ed. by It was also listed among the best poems of was “Contradictory Quantitative Liquid R. Rothstein, E. Scatton, & C. Townsend 2005 in the Montserrat Review, won the Diphthongal Reflexes in Polish of the Type (Slavica Publishers, 2006). (continued on page 7)

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bachelor’s degree in literary studies from Heather Rice won Foreign Language Graduations Utah State University (spring 2006). From and Area Studies fellowships for Slovene for Twelve students earned bachelor’s degrees January 2002 to February 2004, he lived summer and Czech for this academic year. in Slavic languages and literatures since and worked in Russia and Belarus as an Miriam Shrager presented “The Lin- last year’s newsletter. December 2005: LDS missionary. He plans to focus his guistics and Poetics of Russian Proverbs” Joseph Baird, Peter Namyslowski, and research on the literature of Belarus. at the 2006 Midwest Slavic Conference, Adam Pate. May 2006: Katie Davis (Phi Rosemarie Connolly won Foreign March 2–4, in Columbus, Ohio. Beta Kappa honor society), Clark Everitt, Language and Area Studies fellowships Megan Staples won a Foreign Language Aaron Hale-Dorrell (Phi Beta Kappa), for Russian in both the summer and the and Area Studies fellowship for Russian Ryan Kilgore, Jean Morrison, Mike academic year. study this summer. Smith, and Chris Wininger. August 2006: Lina Khawaldah received an REEI Indiana University boasted four winners Robert Hall and Justin Moore. Mellon Endowment grant to support her in the 2006 ACTR National Post-Second- participation in last December’s AATSEEL ary Russian Essay Contest: Adam Foltzer, Student activities conference, where she presented her paper third place (non-heritage learners, level Micah Austin joined the department as “The City Re-Framed: Revisiting Dobu- 1); Evan Muchmore, honorable mention a new graduate student this fall. He has a zhinsky’s City Portraits.” (non-heritage learners, level 2); Paul An- derson, second place (non-heritage learn- ers, level 4); and Leah Tannen, third place (heritage learners, level 2). In this year’s contest, there were 650 essays submitted from 52 universities and colleges. Eight students were inducted into the Dobro Slovo National Slavic Honor Society. Dobro Slovo recognizes academic achieve- ment in the field of Slavic studies. The new members are: Joseph James Crescente III, Daniel J. Florek, Katherine Israel, Allison Kaderabek, Jessica Michelle Lex, Ryan Scott McMeen Sara Grace Ronald, and Joshua Lee Ruegsegger. Study abroad report Four students are taking part in Indiana University’s CIEE St. Petersburg Overseas Study program this fall: Daniel Florek, Wyatt Huff, Katherine Israel, and Ryan McMeen. In spring 2006, five students were on the program: Aaron Farris, Rob- ert Hall, John Knifely, Kelly Lostroscio, and Thomas Schafbuch. Summer 2006 Visiting the St. Paul church in Peterhof as part of an overseas study program are, from left, had two students: Kathleen Minahan and students Daniel Florek, Ryan McMeen, Katherine Israel, and Wyatt Huff. Michael Schafer.

Faculty notes New Armstrong Scholarship endowed (continued from page 6) he Daniel Armstrong Memorial Re- stan. In addition to the endowment, the Skipping Stones Honor Award, and Tsearch Essay Award has placed feathers Armstrong family made a second one-time was among three finalists for a Ben in the caps of Indiana University students gift this year that allowed us to award a sec- Franklin Award. since 1981. Now, through the generosity ond Armstrong scholarship to Rachel Factor Christina Zarifopol-Illias took of John and Elizabeth Armstrong, a new of Mount Kisco, N.Y. Factor began study- part in a panel discussion with the endowed scholarship has been created for ing Russian in 10th grade at Phillips Exeter president and vice president of the an incoming freshman who plans to study a Academy in New Hampshire, did a semester Romanian Cultural Institute at the Slavic language. abroad in St. Petersburg, and even taught Embassy of Romania in Washington, The first recipient of the scholarship Russian to elementary school students. D.C., on March 3. She also chaired is Zoe Higginbottom of Lafayette, Ind. The new scholarship, like the research a conference session “On Norman Higginbottom has studied Russian for essay award, honors the memory of Daniel Manea’s The Hooligan’s Return” at four years with Todd Golding, MA’93, Armstrong (1942–79), the late son of John “The Writer Uprooted” at Indiana MAT’96, at Jefferson High School. Her and Elizabeth, and a beloved faculty mem- University on March 22. travels include a school exchange to Uz- ber in the Department of Slavic Languages bekistan and a semester abroad in Uzbeki- and Literatures.  Alumni Notebook

The International Graduate Business Jerald J. Jordan, BA’73, published a 1960s School, housed in the Economics Institute, history book We Take This Opportunity to Christopher Collins, MA’62, PhD’68, Zagreb, is often taught by IU Kelly School Write. He lives in Queenstown, Md., and writes he has discovered that his book on of Business faculty. The Dolans can be he can be reached at [email protected]. playwright Nikolai Evreinov (Ardis 1973) reached at [email protected]. Robbie Clipper Sethi, BA’73, is a is now “something of a rare book, selling Frank Miller, MA’65, PhD’76, professor of English at Rider University in for $150 on the Internet.” He is now a real published his book Folklore for Stalin in Lawrenceville, N.J. She had a poem “Heat” estate broker specializing in farm, com- Russian translation through Akademicheskii included in the New Jersey State Museum’s mercial, and historic properties in Charlot- proekt in St. Petersburg. His Handbook show Vision and Voice: Princeton Artists tesville and Staunton, Va. He has recently of Russian Verbs was reissued in July, and Alliance in Dialogue with Contemporary taken up rowing, and for the past four years the second edition of V puti (with Olga New Jersey Poetry. The poem was part of a he has claimed the national title in single Kagan and Anna Kudyma) was published in collaboration with Harry I. Naar, MFA’70, sculls in his masters age group. August 2005. an artist and her colleague at Rider. She Walter W. Buchanan, BA’63, JD’73, wrote the novels Fifty-Fifty and The Bride PhD’93, has been named head and inau- Wore Red and is working on another novel. gural J.R. Thompson head chair of the 1970s Marian Wendel, Cert/MA’72, is a senior Sethi lives in Skillman, N.J. Department of Engineering Technology Maria Carlson, MA’74, PhD’82, won an and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M auditor with the Department of Agriculture in Arlington, Texas. American Association of Teachers of Slavic University at College Station. A registered and Eastern European Languages award for professional engineer in Florida, Indiana, excellence in post-secondary teaching. She is Massachusetts, Oregon, and Tennessee, currently a professor of Slavic languages and Buchanan is a fellow of the American Soci- literature and Russian and East European ety for Engineering Education and a senior studies at the University of Kansas. member of the Institute of Electrical and Debra A. Neumann, MA’75, is a psy- Electronics Engineers. He has co-authored chologist in Bethesda, Md. Previously, she 113 publications. served as a linguist for the U.S. Depart- Edwin G. Dolan, BA’64, Cert/MA’66, (continued on page 9) writes, “Kitty [Katherine Hurney Dolan], Cert/MA’66, and I have been busy with a series of visiting professorships at various universities in Eastern Europe. Since 2002, Obituary, bequest these have included Central European Francis Eugene Sturwold, BA’56, University in Budapest, Hungary; American Benjamin Rifkin, immediate past MA’58, a Central Intelligence Agency University in ; Stockholm School president of the American Association analyst, died of liver cancer on Dec. of Economics in Riga, Latvia; and the Uni- of Teachers of Slavic and East Euro- 24, 2005, at Capital Hospice in versity of Economics in Prague. We would pean Languages, presented the 2005 Arlington, Va. He was 76. Sturwold be especially interested to be in contact AATSEEL award for excellence in post- was born in Connersville, Ind., and with REEI alumni in Riga or Prague.” The secondary teaching to IU alumna served in the Air Force in the early couple has also taught at the English-lan- Maria Carlson, MA’74, PhD’82, right. 1950s. After graduating from Indiana guage MBA program in Zagreb, Croatia. University, where he studied Slavic languages, he moved to Washington in 1953 and worked in federal intel- Bora Kim, left, recipient ligence operations. He joined the CIA of the 2006 Neatrour- in 1961 and analyzed developments Edgerton Fellowship, with in Eastern Europe. He also served as Charles Neatrour and a CIA staff inspector. He retired in Galina Krivonos, 2005 1986 and, the following year, received recipient. Charles Neat- the agency’s Intelligence Medal. rour, widower of alumna Although saddened to learn Elizabeth “Betty Jo” Baylor of his death, we were touched to Neatrour, MA’66, PhD’73 learn of Sturwold’s loyalty and kind (1935–2002), endowed feelings toward his education in the Neatrour-Edgerton Fel- the Slavic department. The depart- lowship for an outstanding ment was named as the beneficiary graduate student in the of Sturwold’s estate and received a department to honor the substantial gift that will be put to memory of his wife and, good use in support of our students at her request, to honor and faculty. her mentor at IU, the Portions of this article have been late William B. Edgerton extracted from the Washington Post (1915–2004). obituary, Jan. 7, 2006.

 position as a professor of Russian and Soviet human-relations assistant at Liquid Trans- Alumni notebook history at the University of Pennsylvania. port Corp. in Indianapolis. She received a (continued from page 8) Sharon Horne, Cert/BA’87, is an as- senior professional of human resources title ment of Defense in Washington, D.C. sociate professor of counseling psychology in June 2005. Konev married in May 2005 Mark von Hagen, MA’78, is currently at the University of Memphis. and lives in Carmel. on sabbatical from his position as Boris Jennifer Challgren-Whitaker, BA’02, Bakhmeteff Professor of Russian and East MD’06, is doing a residency in internal European Studies at Columbia University Todd Golding, MA’93, MAT’96, wrote medicine at Emory University in Atlanta. while he writes a book on the emergence of an article with Denise Gardiner titled “Title Tatyana Vdovina, BA’02, is a PhD modern Ukraine during World War I. VI Center Support for Pre-College Russian student in second-language acquisition at William Dawson, Cert/BA’79, MBA’83, Teachers” that was published in the Febru- the University of Maryland, College Park. is an executive search consultant at Protis ary 2006 (Vol. 49, Issue 1) AATSEEL In October 2005, she presented a research Executive Innovations in Indianapolis. newsletter and spring (Vol. 32, No. 3) paper “Effects of Explicit Instruction on ACTR newsletter. the Acquisition of Russian Verbal Morphol- Eric Batsie, Cert/BA’94, MPA’97, ogy by American Learners” at the Second Language Research Forum conference at Robert Fleisch, Cert/BA’80, is an assis- is executive director of International Big the Teacher’s College of Columbia Univer- tant inspector general for the Department Brothers/Big Sisters in Russia. sity, New York. of Defense in Fort Meade, Md. Matthew Kingsley, Cert/BA’94, teaches Mary Margaret Underwood, BA’03, is Lynn A. Berry, MA’84, served as editor at Tigard High School in Portland, Ore. a student at the Washington College of Law, in chief of The Moscow Times from January Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, MA’97, American University, Washington, D.C. 2001 until June 2006. PhD’02, published “Redressing the Anna Shparberg, MA/MLS’05, is a Peter Holquist, Cert/BA’86, has taken a Commissar: Thaw Cinema Revises Soviet Structuring Myths” in The Russian Review reference, collection development, and (April 2006). Web applications librarian at the Fondren We want to hear from you! Library of Rice University in Houston. Fill out the form on the back page and S. Clark Everitt, BA’06, received a send it in. We’ll publish your news in a scholarship from American Councils for Nancy Eyl, MA’01, is a second-year law future issue of DOSLAL. the Russian Language and Area Studies student at Georgetown University. She was Program and will continue his Russian previously adjunct instructor of Russian and language studies at the St. Petersburg State German at Tulane University, New Orleans. Pedagogical University this academic year. Slavic Languages Maria Cohen Konev, Cert/BA’01, is a & Literatures Announcing This newsletter is published by the In- diana University Alumni Association, in IUAlumniCareers.com cooperation with the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures and the College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Association, to encourage alumni interest in and support for Indiana University. For activities and membership informa- tion, call (800) 824-3044 or send e-mail to [email protected]. Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures Chair...... Ronald Feldstein Supervising Editor...... Denise Gardiner Newsletter Editor...... Janis Cakars The IU Alumni Association’s new online career services center, IUAlumniCareers.com, is offi cially open! This Web site provides online career and mentoring services for IU alumni. College of Arts & Sciences Register at IUAlumniCareers.com to search for jobs posted by employers, post your résumé Interim Dean...... David Zaret for review by employers, or search for an alumni mentor for career advice. Executive Director of Development & Alumni Programs...... David Ellies IU alumni are invited to register as mentors to give career advice to their fellow alumni. As a mentor, you may choose how often and in what manner you wish to be contacted, and you IU Alumni Association may opt out of the mentor program at any time. President/CEO...... Ken Beckley Employers are invited to register to post job openings Director of Alumni at no charge. Programs...... Nicki Bland Editor for Constituent Only IUAA members may search for Periodicals ...... Julie Dales jobs and mentors, so activate your Assistant Editor...... Abby Tonsing membership today!

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 SWSEEL Nonprofit Org. Postage (continued from page 3) PAID guage skills on a Fulbright to Estonia. Indiana University There were a few changes in the work- Alumni Association shop this year. These included a rejuvenat- ed sports program, including a high-profile golf tournament. Living accommodations were moved from the Ashton to the more luxurious Forest dormitory. Forest afforded comfortable lounges, air conditioning, and double rooms for single students. New tests were devised this year. In addi- tion to the usual pre- and post-course tests, 12 brave students volunteered for a five- hour battery of new written and oral exams from the Russian Ministry of Education, administered by Edna Andrews, MA’81, PhD’84, and Tatiana Nesterova, a philology professor from St. Petersburg University. Every year, Kolodziej enjoys the way Printed on recycled paper in U.S.A. “the various components that make up the Summer Workshop work together to put on a very complex program: The Slavic Alumni: What’s new with you? Russian and East European Institute, the Slavic department, the Inner Asian Center The IU Alumni Association is charged with maintaining records for all IU alumni. and Central Eurasian Studies, the BALSSI Please print as much of the following information as you wish. Its purpose, in addition to

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