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Alumni Newsletter Vol. 9 College of Arts & Sciences Winter 2004–05 Slavic department steps up outreach efforts orking in collaboration with the IU Russian and East European WInstitute (REEI), Slavic depart- ment faculty members have initiated a number of efforts during the past year to share their knowledge, skills, and enthu- siasm for Slavic studies with precollegiate teachers and members of the general public. This type of service to the univer- sity and to the profession often does not receive the credit it deserves. Outreach is a central obligation of the university’s Title VI National Resource Center (REEI) and is important for student recruitment and maintenance of the public profile and out- standing reputation of the department. Slavic language coordinator Jeffrey Holdeman has made several outreach trips in the state this year. He visited DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., to speak to students there about Jeffrey Holdeman lectures on Russian language study in Al Stoner’s Merrillville classroom. opportunities for furthering their language study in the Summer Workshop or in a diana. Following this meeting, Stoner was The Gary school district has a summer graduate program at IU. Last May, Holde- selected to receive a professional develop- Study Alternative International Languages man traveled with REEI’s outreach coor- ment grant from REEI, which he used to Program for children in grades 2–10 that dinator, Denise Gardiner, to speak to and enroll in Level 5 Russian at IU’s Summer includes Russian. We provided a box of perform Russian music for teacher Albert Workshop. Holdeman and Gardiner also teaching materials for the summer 2004 Stoner and his beginning Russian students met with the foreign language coordina- SAIL program, and we plan to expand our at Merrillville High School in northwest In- tor of the Gary Community School Corp. support for 2005. Another high school visit took Holde- man to the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities in Muncie, Chair notes much worth celebrating where he spoke to the first- and second- s I begin my third year as chair of the Slavic department, we continue to re- year classes of Heather Rogers, MA’99. Aceive good news about our language enrollments, thanks to the continued hard Holdeman also repeated his popular “Intro work of our language coordinator, Jeff Holdeman. We are excited about the addi- to Russian” program for at-risk middle tion of Aaron Beaver to our literature faculty this year. Beaver recently completed school students from poor rural and inner a notable dissertation on Joseph Brodsky at the University of Chicago and is also a city schools who visit the Bloomington graduate of our undergraduate Slavic program at IU! We have just received another campus as part of a “Scholars Mini Camp,” item of wonderful news for our department: The dean has authorized a new tenure- hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences. track search in the area of and literature for this year. Thus, we have Dodona Kiziria was a featured speaker been given two back-to-back tenure-track positions, last year and this year. This is in this year’s IU International Studies not only a strong vote of confidence in our department, but a great opportunity to Summer Institute for grade 7–12 in-service build our department for the next generation and maintain our national strengths in teachers. She presented a survey of the his- Slavic languages and literatures. tory of Georgia to the 20 teachers enrolled — Ronald Feldstein in the course. This was followed by a live (continued on page 3)

1 Departmental News

Success stories from the department are encouraging he department’s students participated Tfor the second time in the American Council of Teachers of Russian National Postsecondary Russian Essay Contest. IU’s 20 participants represented five of six categories in the competition, and we are pleased to congratulate our four national winners. Among non-heritage speakers at the advanced level, Neil Gipson (MA student, REEI) won first place, and Amy Zerebnick (undergraduate, Slavic) and Siobhan Reardon (undergraduate, Slavic) won third place. In the heritage speaker category, Level 2, Jane Charney (under- graduate, journalism) won first place. The Zeta Zeta chapter of Dobro Slovo National Slavic Honor Society inducted 21 new members at a ceremony on April 20. The Zeta Zeta members are Matthew Joseph Adler (undergraduate, criminal justice), Nik Borjan (undergraduate, busi- ness), Bora Chung (MA student, Slavic), Undergraduate Slavic major Amy Zerebnick receives her Dobro Slovo pin. Kathryn Noelle Davis (undergraduate, Slavic, psychology), Catherine Drew Alex Ippoliti, and Kristen Stolt; and (undergraduate, French, political science), Nathan Gilbert spent a semester in Bul- Slavic Languages Beth Ehrsam (undergraduate, commu- garia. Miriam Osadchey spent the summer nication and culture), Seth Clark Everitt in St. Petersburg. This fall, four students & Literatures (undergraduate, Slavic, communication — Erinne Daley, Katie Davis, Aaron and culture), Sarah Gilchrist (under- Hale-Dorrell, and Mike Smith — are This newsletter is published by the In- graduate, Slavic, comparative literature), participating in the CIEE study abroad diana University Alumni Association, in Aaron Hale-Dorrell (undergraduate, program in St. Petersburg. Davis and Smith cooperation with the Department of Slavic Slavic, history), Philip Charles Hart (MA are there for this academic year. In spring Languages & Literatures and the College student, REEI), Stephanie J. Hockman semester, Tim Kenlan and Ryan Kilgore of Arts & Sciences Alumni Association, to (MA/MPA student, REEI/SPEA), Blake will join the others. encourage alumni interest in and support Randell Hulet (undergraduate, Slavic, REEI and the department organized a for Indiana University. For activities and membership information, call (800) 824- psychology), John Alexander Ippoliti concert by the Russian folk music group 3044 or send e-mail to iualumni@indiana. (undergraduate, Slavic, classical stud- Zolotoi Plios, which drew a wonderful edu. ies), Andriana Ivanovic (undergraduate, crowd of 85. Other extracurricular activities political science), Aleksandra Jovanovic include a lecture on Russian translations Department of Slavic (undergraduate, Slavic, criminal justice), of Lord of the Rings; a Vinni-Pukh car- Languages & Literatures Stuart MacKenzie (PhD candidate, Slavic, toon night, organized by graduate student Chair ...... Ronald Feldstein philosophy), Miriam Shrager (PhD candi- Lina Khawaldah; and a talk on the Soviet Supervising Editor ...... Denise Gardiner date, Slavic), Michael Smith (undergradu- underground jazz scene, organized by local Newsletter Editor ...... Philip Hart ate, Slavic), Michelle Stevens, and Amy international students from Russia. College of Arts & Sciences M. Zerebnick (undergraduate, Slavic). Dean ...... Kumble R. Subbaswamy Melinda J. Fountain was inducted in the Executive Director of Development honorary category. Visit our newly revised & Alumni Programs ...... David Ellies Enrollments in classes are up. Spring Web site at IU Alumni Association 2004 second-year and above language www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/ President/CEO ...... Ken Beckley enrollments were at 122, up from 89 the Director of Alumni year before. The number of Slavic majors in or write to us at the Programs ...... Nicki Bland 2003–04 was up to 26, double the number Department of Slavic Editor for Constituent at the same time of the previous year. Languages and Literatures, Periodicals ...... Julie Dales Two-thirds of these are double majors, and Assistant Editor for Constituent they have one of the highest average GPAs Indiana University, Periodicals ...... Carol Edge of any major on campus. Participation in Ballantine Hall 502, Editorial Assistant ...... Diana Tychsen study-abroad programs is also up signifi- Bloomington, IN cantly. In 2003–04, three students spent a 47405-7103. semester in St. Petersburg: Sarah Atterson, 2 S W S E E L 2 0 0 4 c o n t i n u e s u p w a r d e n r o l l m e n t t r e n d he 54th annual Summer Workshop generating other external grant support. a high level. Of the 152 students in Slavic Tin Slavic, East European, and Central The East European program was awarded department languages (Russian, Geor gian, Asian Languages saw upward enrollment $28,000 from the American Councils and East European), 50 had FLAS fellow- trends continue. Total enrollment went for Learned Societies for first-year Bos- ships from IU or from other T itle VI cen- from 162 in 2003 to 223 in 2004, an nian/Croatian/Serbian, Polish, Roma- ters nationwide; eight had SSRC awards; increase of 40 percent. The lar gest increases nian, and Slovene. ACLS support pays the five students received awards from the CIC; were in Russian, from 77 to 107 students, instructor’s salary and ensures that IU will one student had an individual East Euro- and Central Asian, from 41 to 59 students, offer the language tuition-free to gradu- pean Language Fellowship from ACLS; and and in the addition of two new courses to ate students in East European studies. The one student was a professional from the SWSEEL: second-year Serbian and Croa- workshop has already received notification U.S. State Department (read about him in tian and beginning Yiddish. that ACLS will support first-year Bos- the alumni profile on page 7). The new Yiddish course was taught by nian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, Polish, SWSEEL offered numerous extracurricu- special agreement between IU and the U.S. Romanian, and Macedonian in 2005. The lar activities. A total of 53 lectures, 18 film Holocaust Memorial Museum. The nine 2004 Russian and Geor gian programs were showings, and seven cooking demonstra- students in the course were competitively awarded $34,200 by the Social Science Re- tions took place. A highlight of this year’s selected and received full fellowship fund- search Council for salaries and fellowships program was a seminar on Russian folklore ing from the museum. and will receive $45,000 in 2005. taught by Professor Marina Balina (Illinois The 2004 workshop was successful in Overall fellowship support remained at Wesleyan University).

S u m m e r Wo r k s h o p i n S l a v i c , E a s t E u r o p e a n a n d C e n t r a l A s i a n L a n g u a g e s J u n e 1 7 – A u g . 1 2 , 2 0 0 5 , a t I n d i a n a U n i v e r s i t y

RUSSIAN • First through sixth year • Four- and eight-week courses available

EAST EUROPEAN and BAL TIC • First-year Hungarian and Lithuanian • First-year Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Czech, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, and Romanian • First- and second-year Estonian are tuition-fr ee for graduate students specializing in any East European field (ACLS funded)

CENTRAL ASIAN and GEORGIAN • First- and second-year Azeri, Geor gian, Kazakh, Tajik, Turkmen, Uyghur, and Uzbek • First-year Pashto

FLAS and SSRC Fellowships are available Application deadline for fellowships is April 1, 2005 IN-STATE TUITION for all languages More information is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/. Or write to Director, SWSEEL, BH 502, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 Telephone (812) 855-2608 • F AX (812) 855-2107 • E-mail: [email protected]

O u t r e a c h e f f o r t s was also co-instructor for a lifelong learning H a v e t a g , w i l l t r a v e l course for IU’s Division of Continuing Send us your business card — or just your (continued from page 1) Studies this fall. Ten adult students enrolled business information — and we’ll send it interactive video session between the teach- in the course on “Russian Romance: Tchai- back to you laminated and attached to a ers in Bloomington and Geor gian teachers kovsky’s Opera, Pushkin’s Story,” which strap, perfect for your traveling pleasure. who were using the teleconferencing facili- coincided with the performance of Eugene (One tag per graduate, please.) ties of the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi. Onegin by the IU Opera Theater. Holde- Your luggage tag will show that you are Andr ew Durkin has been kept busy man also hosted an extracurricular event proud of your connection to the College of with events associated with local Russian related to Onegin when they arranged for Arts & Sciences at IU. cultural programming. In November, he the visit of Jefferson High School Russian Mail your card or information to Lug- gave a pre-show talk before the IU Depart- teacher Todd Golding, MAT’95, and sev- gage Tags, College of Arts & Sciences, ment of Theatre and Drama’s production eral of his students for a dinner in Bloom- Kirkwood Hall 208, 130 S. Woodlawn, of Chekhov’s The Cherry Or char d. Durkin ington before attending the performance. Bloomington, IN 47405. 3 Faculty Notes

nominated by the department’s graduate Vlatka Stimac is Faculty activities students, both in spring 2004. He also the visiting instruc- Henry Cooper has two book reviews presented a paper, “History of the Erie tor for intermediate coming out, one in Slavic Review on a Russian Old Believers: Isolation, Migra- and advanced Croa- Slovak volume titled Medzi vychodom a tion, Coexistence,” and spoke in a syllabus tian and Serbian zapadom: Byzantsko-slovanska tradicia, design roundtable at AAASS in December. during the 2004–05 kultura a jazyk na vychodnom Slovensku Nina Perlina attended the XII Sympo- academic year. She and one in SEEJ on the English translation sium of the International Dostoevsky Soci- is currently a PhD of the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleza’s ety, Sept.1–6, 2004, in Geneva, where she candidate in the novel Banket u Blitvi (Banquet in Blitva). delivered a paper titled “Vasily Rosanov’s faculty of philosophy Stimac He made a presentation last May to the ‘I’ Created in the Image of Dostoevsky at the University faculty and students of the Slavic depart- and Dostoevsky’s Heroes Viewed by This of Zagreb. Her academic focuses include ment of the University of Padua in Imagined Alter Ego of the Author.” lexicology, semantics, and terminology. She titled “From Glagolithic to Gundulic with Bronislava Volkova recently returned is writing her dissertation on the terminol- Protestants in Between: The Earliest Writ- from a poetry reading tour in the Czech ogy of fashion and clothing in from ings of the Slovenes and Croats.” Cooper’s and Slovak republics. She read her poetry in 1918 to 1945. current project is an anthology of Bulgarian the Czech and Slovak PEN Club, as well as Jelena Runic is a literature in English translation for publica- bilingually at the World Congress of SVU visiting scholar from tion by Balkanistica, the journal of the in Olomouc in June, where she also chaired Belgrade University, Southeast European Studies Association. the creative writing panel. Apart from those where she teaches He also continues to labor along on his readings, she also presented a paper at the survey of Slavic, Hungarian, and Romanian World Congress on the panel on women’s and Introduction to vernacular Bible translations. Finally, during issues. She contributed collages to the Romanian Studies. spring break last year, he had the oppor- Bellevue exhibition Visual Jam and read Her research inter- tunity to visit saints Cyril and Methodius’s her poetry in a program on world peace in ests include Roma- home town, Thessaloniki, Greece. Alas, no Bloomington on Sept. 10. Two interviews nian phonetics, pho- Runic trace remains of their lives there. with her were published in the newsletter nology, morphology, Andrew Durkin presented a paper, of the SVU Congress in Olomouc. She and comparative syntax. While at IU, she “Transgression and Transformation: Dos- was also recently awarded a grant by the will observe U.S. teaching methodologies toevskian Subtext in Chekhov’s ‘Murder’,” Indiana Arts Commission for her next book and technologies for implementation at her at the 2004 Summer International Sym- of poetry. home institution. posium organized by the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, in Sapporo, Japan. New faculty Ronald Feldstein’s Internet publica- The department tion Romanian Verb Handbook appeared welcomes new ten- in 2004 on the Web site of the Language ure-track Assistant Resource Center, located at Duke Univer- Professor Aaron sity and the University of North Carolina at Beaver. He comes Chapel Hill. He also edited Dana Cojoca- to the department ru’s Romanian Grammar, which also ap- from the Univer- pears on the Web site. His paper “The Uni- sity of Chicago, fied Monophthongization Rule of Com- where he earned mon Slavic,” is scheduled to appear in the a PhD in 2003. Beaver Journal of Slavic Linguistics. Another paper, Visiting faculty His dissertation “On the Structure of Syncretism in Roma- Grzegorz Janko- was titled “Time in the Lyric Poetry of nian Conjugation,” has been accepted for wicz is the visiting Joseph Brodsky.” While his major interest publication in Contemporary Approaches to Polish language and is in Russian literature, he has also studied Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from literature instructor Czech literature. Beaver was a lecturer at the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance for 2004–05. He the University of Chicago during his PhD Languages, Bloomington, Ind., April 2003. is a PhD candidate studies and taught the course Russian It is vol. 258 of the John Benjamins series, at the Institute of Through Pushkin to beginning Russian lan- Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Finally, Polish Philology at guage students. He will bring greater depth in July 2004, he gave a paper at the Lan- Jagiellonian Uni- to an already diverse Slavic department. guage Resource Center meeting at Duke versity in Krakow. Jankowicz This academic year, Beaver is teaching the University, titled “Classifying Unusual His academic work two-semester graduate student sequence Aspectual Pairs in the Russian Classroom: focuses on “The Ekphrastic Tradition in in 20th-Century Russian Literature and a e.g., zaxvatit’/zaxvatat’/zaxvatyvat’.” 20th-Century Polish Poetry.” He will section of second-year Russian. Jeffrey Holdeman received the Trust- conduct three courses: intermediate and ees’ Teaching Award, nominated by the advanced Polish language and Survey of chair, and the Mentor of the Year Award, Polish Literature and Culture. 4 Student News

Graduate Other students are also keeping busy. lowship to study for the Elizaveta Moussinova attended the Mid- 2004–05 academic year. Two new students entered the gradu- west Slavic Conference at Ohio State Uni- Jennifer Sanders gave a paper, “Bridg- ate program this year. Andrew Moody is versity in February, where she participated ing Cultures: Examples from the ‘Serbo- studying Slavic literature. Moody spent in a panel on “Aspects of Slavic Folklore” Croatian’ Classroom,” at the Cultural two years in Russia prior to completing his and gave the presentation “Sviatochnii rass- Diversity and Language Education Confer- undergraduate work at Miami University kaz v russkoi literature i folklore 19 veka” ence in September at the University of of Ohio. His interests include the works of (Yuletide story in Russian literature and Hawaii, Manoa. Last spring, she worked Nikolai Gogol. Yin-Ting Chen is focus- folklore of the 19th century). She spent the for Campus Instructional Consulting on ing on Slavic linguistics. Chen received a summer in Moscow researching Russian the Freshman Learning Project and then bachelor’s degree in Russian from Tamkang Orthodox philosophy. In August, she spent spent two months in Croatia working on University in Taiwan. She spent her junior one month at the Summer School of the advanced language skills with Jasna Novak year abroad at Moscow State University. Slavonic Languages in Olomouc, Czech Milic, a former Fulbright lecturer for the Her interests include phonology and syntax Republic. IU Slavic department. For this study, Sand- in Russian linguistics. Heather Rice received a FLAS fel- (continued on page 6)

on behalf of Slavic studies. After changing played the good humor that many of us will In memoriam his academic focus from Romance languag- forever remember about him. William B. Edgerton es to Slavic and after his wartime experienc- A memorial meeting in remembrance es, he received his PhD in Russian literature of William B. Edgerton was held at the On behalf of the from Columbia University in 1954. He Bloomington Friends Meeting House last Department of taught at Penn State, the University of February. His family suggests that memo- Slavic Languages Michigan, and Columbia University, before rial donations be made to the Bloomington and Literatures of moving to Indiana University in 1958. One Quakers Society of Friends, 3366 Moores Indiana University, can immediately appreciate Edgerton’s Pike, Bloomington, IN 47401, or to the it is my sad duty to importance in the field by noting that he Indiana University Foundation for the inform the scholarly was a founder and the first president of the Neatrour-Edgerton Fellowship for Gradu- community of the American Association for the Advancement ate Study in our department. passing of Professor of Slavic Studies, in addition to playing a — Ronald Feldstein William B. Edger- Edgerton similar role on the Joint Committee on ton, who died in Slavic Studies of the ACLS and SSRC. He Bloomington on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2004, at also helped found the Inter-University the age of 89. Committee on Travel Grants, the fore- Professor Edgerton played a major runner of IREX. From 1958 to 1978, he role not only in the Slavic department of Felix Oinas chaired the American Committee of Slavists Indiana University, but as a national and Felix J. Oinas, and served as one of only two American international figure of great importance in 93, died Saturday, delegates to the International Committee the study of Slavic languages and litera- Sept. 25, 2004, of Slavists. Thus, it is clear that Edgerton tures. He served 11 years as chair of the at his residence in played a unique role in the establishment of department during its critical early years of Bloomington. Born many institutions that are taken for granted building and consolidation (from 1958 to March 16, 1911, in today. 1965 and 1969 to 1973). Tartu, Estonia, he Beyond Edgerton’s humanitarian service One can best get a true sense of received a master of and central role in founding many of the Edgerton’s long and highly productive arts degree from the Slavic scholarly organizations, his research career by realizing that it consisted of three University of Tartu Oinas can be considered as the third major build- essential components, at which he excelled in 1937 and a doc- ing block. He was the author of important and made his international reputation. tor of philosophy from Indiana University publications on Leo Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, First, one should mention his humanitar- in 1952. He was appointed to the Indiana and Leskov and used his knowledge of ian service during World War II as a relief University faculty in 1951. He held the Romance languages to write about Spanish worker for the Society of Friends. This first rank of professor emeritus of Slavic lan- and Portuguese responses to these great brought Edgerton into contact with several guages and literatures and of Uralic-Altaic Russian authors. Slavic languages, in the former Yugoslavia studies (CEUS) and of the Folklore Insti- In addition to observing Bill Edgerton’s and in . During this period, he was tute. His areas of research included Slavic great accomplishments in the Slavic field, I one of the people credited with discovering and Finno-Ugric linguistics and folklore would like to observe that he was a friendly evidence about children who were de- and mythology, especially the Estonian epic and helpful colleague, always pleasant and ported from their home countries by Nazi Kalevipoeg. In 1997, Estonian President willing to offer his time and assistance. He . Lennart Meri awarded him the Order of liked to encourage his younger colleagues Chronologically, the next major theme the State Coat of Arms, II Class — the in their scholarly pursuits and always dis- of Edgerton’s career was his untiring work highest Estonian civilian honor.

5 Student news (continued from page 5) Alumni Notebook ers received an REEI/Mellon Grant-in-aid of Research. Sanders was recently advanced published in December 2003 after 10 years to candidacy in both the Slavic and linguis- 1960s in the making. It came to 1,600 pages, tics departments. Gleb Zelenoy, MA’63, attended the Na- with approximately 90,000 entries. I also Miriam Shrager received an IREX tional Defense Education Russian Institute acted as a language consultant for the Individual Advanced Research Opportuni- under the direction of Robert L. Baker. recently published forestry dictionary, titled ties Grant to do linguistic field research in He also taught French and Russian for 12 Russko-anglo-norvezhsky/Norvezhko-anglo- Russia for the 2004–05 academic year. The years before joining the FBI as a language russky lesnoy slovar (3,300 entries). This was title of her project is “The Prosodic System specialist, working in the intelligence and a cooperative project between the county of Northwest Russian Dialects.” criminal area for 22 years. Zelenoy has since retired and lives in Marston Mills, Mass. of Nordland, Norway, and the Arkhangelsk State Engineering University. In addition Degrees granted to my teaching duties, I am working on a Saera Yoon defended her dissertation, 1970s Norwegian–Russian ecological dictionary, “Mythical Imagination in Historical Fic- Howard Zalkin, BA’71, has earned an MA which I hope will be out in 2005.” Kot- tion: Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol.” (1974, SUNY at Albany) and PhD (1979, tum lives in Nittedal, Norway, and can be Her adviser was Andrew Durkin. University of Virginia) in Slavic languages reached at [email protected]. Galina Krivonos completed her and literatures since leaving IU. He taught master’s degree. Russian at Georgetown University (1977– 1980s 79) and the University of Virginia (1979– 80), and since then has spent most of his Vincent K. Bennett, MA’83, AC’83, is a time working in the computer industry as foreign service officer and currently works a database software specialist, including six as the political/military chief at the U.S. years as a technical manager in Moscow Embassy in Warsaw, Poland. He is moving, (1993–99). He lives in Oakland, Calif., with his wife, Alina, and their five children, and has started a business as a personal life to Moscow, where he will be head of the coach and trainer. political/external unit covering Russian Allan I. Grafman, BA’75, president of foreign policy. Undergraduate Archie Comics Entertainment, announces Edna Andrews, PhD’84, has published Conversations with Lotman: The Implica- Degrees granted that IDT Entertainment acquired a stake in the company in January 2004, which allows tions of Cultural Semiotics in Language, Eight students completed undergraduate IDT to co-develop and co-produce select Literature, and Cognition (University of majors in Slavic languages and literatures. animated projects based on Archie Com- Toronto Press, 2004). Vivian Eleven (Phi Beta Kappa) and ics characters. He writes, “Since joining Hilarie Morozova graduated in December Archie Comics Entertainment as president 1990s 2003; Sarah Gilchrist, Natasha Ruser, in February 2003, we have announced two Hilary Brandt, BA’91, works at the U.S. Jessica Yoder (Phi Beta Kappa), and Amy major motion picture projects. The first is State Department, where she uses the Zerebnick (Phi Beta Kappa) graduated with Miramax for Betty and Veronica, and Russian she learned at IU almost every day in May 2004. Sarah Atterson and Colin the second (soon to be announced) is with of her job, working with past exchange Nisbet (Phi Beta Kappa) graduated in Paramount for Sabrina the Teenage Witch. I participants from Eastern Europe and the December 2004. will be producing both of them.” Graf- former Soviet Union. She lives in Washing- man lives in White Plains, N.Y., and can be ton, D.C., and can be reached at hilary_ William Beck Scholarship reached at [email protected]. [email protected]. Undergraduate Deena (Paris) Leventer, BA’76, has Deborah Zaccaro Hoffman, BA’93, Slavics student been working as managing editor of the finished law school in 1999 and practiced Sarah Atterson Cummings Center Series since its incep- for a while before deciding to go back to was awarded the tion in 1991. The series is a forum for the school for Slavic studies. She entered the 2003–04 William publication of monographs, collections of MA program in Russian translation this fall Beck Scholarship for essays, and documents pertaining to Russia, at Kent State University. Because Cleveland Russian Language Central Asia, Soviet–Israeli relations, and has a substantial immigrant community, she (formerly the Chair’s Russian Jewry. She reports that they are has regular opportunities to use her Rus- Award), an award now working on their 20th volume, titled sian and enjoy RTVi via satellite dish. She presented to the Atterson Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Rus- is happily married, with one child. She can outstanding junior sia: Legacies and Prospects, which is being be reached at [email protected] and who has made the most progress in the IU edited by Ben Eklof, of the IU history would love to hear from old friends and Russian program. department, Larry Holmes, of the Univer- acquaintances. sity of South Alabama, and Vera Kaplan, Amy (Steiger) Roehrenbeck, BA’95, Leventer’s colleague at Tel Aviv University. reports her marriage to Arthur Roehren- More information is available at www.tau beck in March 2004 in Columbus, Ohio. .ac.il/~russia The couple lives in New Albany, Ohio. She Steinar E. Kottum, PhD’79, writes, can be reached at [email protected]. “I co-edited The Comprehensive Norwe- Curt Woolheiser, PhD’95, has accepted gian-Russian Dictionary, which was finally (continued on page 7)

6 Alumni profile Love of languages, practicality mark David Marks’s career his summer, David Marks, MA’79, did ment to Moscow. and try to clarify and explain to those back Tsomething few adults with steady jobs His post in Moscow in Washington what was happening. would do. He spent his four-week vacation proved rewarding. During these experiences, Marks utilized studying Russian at IU’s Summer Work- “I arrived in the the language training he received at IU and shop in Slavic, East European, and Central Soviet Union in considers it the most beneficial aspect of Asian Languages. Marks’s decision was as 1990 and left from his IU education. In particular, he remem- much one of practicality as it was his love of Russia in 1992,” bers fondly the grammar classes taught by studying languages. He is a foreign service he says. He recalls Professor Galina McLaws. He recommends officer with the U.S. Department of State, fondly having wit- that every student of Russian take Lau- and SWSEEL was his segue from eight Marks nessed Western and rence Richter’s class in Russian phonetics. years of working on Japanese issues and Russian leaders sign It proves to be very useful when speaking three years in Washington to his current the Two-Plus-Four Treaty on Germany with Russians, because, like English, spoken assignment in the American Embassy in (known more formally as the Treaty on the Russian does not sound the way it looks Moscow. Having served in Moscow in the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany) on paper. Marks states that his Russian past and studied Russian extensively, he is in Moscow in September 1990, which language background has served him well not new to the language or the country. removed the last vestiges of Allied occupa- throughout his career, and his participa- David Marks came upon the Russian tion and fixed the international borders of a tion in SWSEEL this summer helped him language almost by accident. After the reunited Germany. reestablish his proficiency. first draft lottery in 1969, he realized his But there was more excitement ahead for Students studying the languages of the number was so low he would almost surely Marks. Less than a year later, he watched former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe be drafted and sent to Vietnam. Having the collapse of Soviet Communism. The often wonder if their language skills will learned that those who enlist voluntarily U.S. Embassy in Moscow is located directly give them an advantage in entering the have greater control over their military across from the Russian “White House,” foreign service. Unfortunately not — all assignments, he signed up for the army where Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the applicants are screened on their perfor- after leaving the University of Wisconsin in Russian Supreme Soviet, and the people mance on the written and oral sections of 1972. The move paid off. His first assign- of Moscow organized their resistance to the foreign service exam. But languages do ment after boot camp was to study Russian the August 1991 coup attempt. It was an prove valuable once you are in the foreign at the Defense Language Institute in Mon- exhilarating moment for everyone. service. terey, Calif. What is the role of the U.S. Embassy What advice does Marks have for stu- Marks came to Bloomington for gradu- staff during such dramatic times of up- dents aspiring to join the foreign service? ate study in 1976 after his military service, heaval? According to Marks, two things are The same advice he would give anyone: fully intending to earn a PhD in Russian lit- crucial: First, foreign-service officers need Get in the habit of reading a good news- erature. After three years in Bloomington, to make sure that the latest and best infor- paper everyday and do not skip the stories he received a fellowship to study in Berlin, mation about what is happening is sent to that miss the front page. Foreign service and his stay in Germany led to a dramatic the State Department as quickly as possible. offiers need to be able to speak clearly shift in his career choice. The diplomatic Second, they should immediately take steps about how apparently minor political or intricacies of Berlin fascinated Marks and to ensure the safety of American citizens economic developments can have an impact convinced him that his future should be in living in the country during the crisis. At on larger ongoing conflicts and tensions the foreign service rather than the academy. the time, no one knew for sure where the between states or ethnic groups. He adds, He returned to Bloomington, completed crisis might lead. Only days before the “Keep studying languages. They do come a graduate certificate with the Russian and coup began, Marks had met with the only in handy.” East European Institute and took the for- military member of the Politburo. This of- — Alex Dunlop eign service exam. He passed the exam and ficial gave no indication whatsoever of the Alex Dunlop received his dual MA/MPA joined the foreign service in 1983. historic events about to take place. During from REEI and SPEA in 2004. He currently After serving in Taipei, Bonn, and To- the chaos, Marks was asked to coordinate works for the Services Group, an economic kyo, he finally obtained a coveted assign- the many reports delivered to the embassy consulting firm located in Arlington, Va.

Elena I. Monastireva-Ansdell, MA’97, the birth of their son, Daelan Alexander Alumni notebook PhD’02, started a two-year appointment as Morozov, on April 20, 2004. (continued from page 6) assistant professor of Russian and Andrew Amy Zerebnick, BA’04, is currently a preceptor position in the Department of W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Russian serving in the Peace Corps in Ukraine. Slavic Languages and Literatures at Har- Cinema at Oberlin College in fall 2003. vard University. Elizabeth Skomp, BA’98, has accepted In memoriam Lori M. (Powell) Craig, BA’97, reports a visiting assistant professor of Russian posi- Alan Selby Pike, MA’63, of Ogden, Utah, that she is back in Bloomington with tion at Williams College. died on April 10, 2003. her husband and daughter. She is work- Werner Arthur Siems, MA’53, died on ing as a paralegal for Mallor Clendening 2000s July 21, 2004. Grodner & Bohrer. She can be reached at Hilarie Morozova Hutcheson, BA’02, [email protected]. and her husband are pleased to announce 7 Nonprofit Org. Postage AATSEEL ‘04 sees PAID many from IU Indiana University Alumni Association ndiana University was well repre- Isented at the 2004 Convention of the American Association for the Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages in Philadelphia. Several alumni, faculty, and graduate students made presentations. Alumni: John Bartle, PhD’94, chaired a panel on “Dostoevsky and Writing Women/Women Writing.” Sue Brown, PhD’96, presented “Case Marking and Negative Closure: Argu- ments for A-Chain Reconstruction?” Maria Carlson, PhD’82, chaired a workshop on “Managing Job Inter- views” and a panel on “Religious Ideas Printed on recycled paper in U.S.A. in Russian Modernism.” Andrew Drozd, PhD’95, participated in a roundtable discussion on “Teaching Slavic Languages & Literatures alumni: What’s new? Slavic Folklore for General Education.” Sibelan Forrester, PhD’90, presented The IU Alumni Association is charged with maintaining records for all IU alumni. “Dubravka Ugresic: Fashioning the Please print as much of the following information as you wish. Its purpose, in addition to

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