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Alumni Newsletter Vol. 15 College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Association Summer 2011

From the department chair Reinvigorated, department sees much growth During the past year the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures has continued to evolve to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The retirements of dear friends Henry Cooper and Ronald Feldstein (see page 5) will be somewhat mitigated in the fall by the arrivals of Jacob Emery, a versatile young literary scholar, and Craig Cravens, a leading figure in the teaching of and culture (see page 3). Emery’s tenure-track position Students, friends, is shared with the Department of Compara- and faculty at tive Literature, a very welcome arrange- the Tea ment, while Cravens is hired as a visiting senior lecturer in the hope of eventual conversion, given our longstanding reputa- Both our undergraduate and graduate language film series, a spring tion in Czech. Moreover, two visiting lines, programs are experiencing growth not celebration, and a Ukrainian those of Lecturer Ariann Stern-Gottschalk seen since the days of the . We (pysanky) workshop run by adjunct Monika and Assistant Professor Sara Stefani, have have among others Jeff Holdeman and Kindraka-Jensen (who teaches U223 been converted to regular positions. We Justyna Beinek to thank for their leader- ). This spring’s Slavic also welcome Chopin specialist and Jacobs ship in these areas. You can read about our and East European Career Night featured School of Music Associate Professor Halina student achievements and activities in the IU alumnus Paul Richardson, publisher Goldberg as an adjunct in our department. relevant columns. I also want to congratu- of Russian Life magazine. There were also Nurturing strong connections with other late Miriam Shrager on receiving the IU numerous lectures by faculty and visitors, units is extremely valuable, and can only Trustees Teaching Award. This award, with titles as diverse as “Acquisition of help Slavic to prosper and flourish. It is my intended by the Board of Trustees to rec- Contrastive Focus in English and Russian” expectation that future joint hires may be ognize extraordinary classroom teaching, is (Lydia Grebenyova, Baylor University); the norm, rather than the exception. Previ- highly competitive for lecturers and clinical “Mapping the Polish Diaspora: Kultura ous to Emery’s, mine — with the Depart- faculty, of which only five nominees are and the Geography of Literary Life during ment of Linguistics — was the only such selected. Also noteworthy is the increased the Cold War?” (Jessie Labov, Ohio State position (and I came to IU in 1987!). Our student interest in Polish and Bosnian/ University); “A Holocaust Object and the health, in my view, rests on our interdisci- Croatian/Serbian. For this we have espe- Story of Its Production” (Boz˙ena Shall- plinarity and versatility, and I can anticipate cially to thank our dedicated (but visiting, cross, University of Chicago); and “Back in possible positions shared not just with the alas) teachers, Iwona Dembowska-Wosik the USSR — the Story of Rock in ” departments of Comparative Literature and and Jagoda Malbaša, respectively. Indeed, (Artemii Troitskii, Russian rock critic), not Linguistics, but with departments such as although Jagoda is returning in the fall, to mention a host of job (and other) talks , Anthropology, Religious Studies, we sadly bid Iwona farewell. She will be on various aspects of . We and Communication and Culture, to name replaced by Barbara Morcinek (see page 3), also began a series of talks in Russian, by but a few. And while at the moment this from Uniwersytet S´la˛ski in Katowice. faculty, emeriti, and visitors. (To listen to a issue of DOSLAL goes to press no hiring In these pages you will read of the many meeting with Troitskii held during his visit authorizations have been announced, over activities sponsored by the Department of to campus and conducted entirely in Rus- the next few years I expect a steady stream Slavic Languages and Literatures over the sian, visit www.iu.edu/~celtie/Lessons/ of new hires in Slavic, beginning in the fall past year. These include not only regu- Russian/troitskiy/troitskiy.html.) with a much-needed search for a senior lar events such as language tables, talent Overall, the future is looking much more faculty member. shows, and the Spring Tea, but also various (continued on page 2) 1 Environmental field experience … in Siberia by Elizabeth Trammell & Olena Chernishenko experiments on the growth of various food the only ones with up-to-date technological This past summer, a group of IUB students crops. We traveled near and far, from a equipment, and we also discovered that, took six-week courses in limnological biostation on nearby Lake despite these technological advances, envi- and environmental science as preparation for Kuchak to an oil- and gas-extraction site ronmental problems persist. their study-abroad trip to southwest Siberia. near Khanty-Mansiysk (an oil boom town In addition to learning about the envi- Two faculty members, Olena Chernishenko over 400 miles to the north). Donning ronment, we were also exposed to Russian (Slavic) and Vicky Meretsky (SPEA), led the hunter-green rubber boots and encephalitis and indigenous cultures of southwestern group of students on their trip to Russia for suits, we hiked through forests, floodplains, Siberia. We visited an ethnographical the first summer exchange of the U.S.–Rus- and bogs. Our guides, Russian professors museum to learn about the history of the sia Global Environmental Issues/Language in Tyumen’, tamed the Siberian wild by Khanty and Mansi, the two main indig- Learning Course Study Program. This a sharing their knowledge of the ecosystem, enous groups in Tyumen’ Oblast. Along partnership between Indiana University biodiversity, and local environmental chal- our northern route to Khanty-Mansiysk and two universities in Tyumen’, Russia lenges. We learned that Americans are not (continued on page 8) (Tyumen’ State Agricultural Academy and Tyumen’ State University). n Aug. 3, we arrived in a smog-filled OMoscow — a fitting backdrop to the beginning of our environmental journey. The thick cloud of smog in Domodedovo demonstrated the urgency of environmental threats in Russia. From the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to Russia’s forest fires, summer 2010 has shown the necessity of collaboration between the and Russia to find solutions for our shared environmental problems. The goals and mis- sion of our new partnership could not have been more fitting. Tyumen’ study-abroad program participants at forestry site in southwest We left the Moscow smoke for Tyu- Siberia. From back left: Thea Roy, Danielle Henckel, Polina Kostylev, men’, our home base for the next two Katherine Pruess, Olena Chernishenko (program director, SLAV), Sarah weeks. Our hosts in Tyumen’ welcomed us Wilensky, Elizabeth Trammel, Crystal Chadwick, Vicky Meretsky (associ- into their university laboratories, sharing ate professor, SPEA), and Marat Salavatulin (state forest ranger). their research on diverse environmental issues — from monitoring oil spills with satellite imagery to conducting large-scale

From the chair ever the department needs your help not porting departmental social events, alumni only to implement new initiatives but also events, student and faculty recruitment, (continued from page 1) to carry out regular activities. (To mention and special research projects. If you would promising for the department today than just one small example, in the past layout like to contribute to any of these funds, it did one year ago. We have to thank for for issues of DOSLAL, including this one, please contact Shelley Scott at the Depart- this reinvigoration the very strong support has been prepared by IU Alumni Associa- ment of Slavic Languages and Literatures, of the College of Arts and Sciences and tion staff, but in the future this will need Indiana University, Ballantine Hall 502, university administration, and especially to be funded through alumni donations.) 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN that of interim Dean David Zaret. The There are various funds to which you might 47405-7103; phone (812) 855-9906; or College recognizes and supports our need direct your contributions. In addition to e-mail [email protected]. Checks should for reorganization, and I have every reason the Slavica Fund and the Neatrour-Edger- be made payable to the Indiana University to believe this will continue under the new ton Fellowship, the department maintains Foundation. If you would like information dean, Larry Singell, who assumes his duties a general Slavic Studies Fund and a Slavic about how your contribution can be used on July 1, 2011. Linguistics Enrichment Fund. We are also to support specific ventures, please do not In closing, however, I want to emphasize in the process of creating a SWSEEL fund, hesitate to e-mail me at [email protected]. our continued need for funding. While we for all you SWSEEL alumni out there, as I hope that you — our valued alumni have been successful in obtaining grants — well as a SWSEEL alumni group, so if you and students, donors, and friends — will with notable successes by SWSEEL director want your donation to support SWSEEL stay in touch and let us know about what- Ariann Stern-Gottschalk in securing major please just let us know. All these funds are ever has been going on in your lives. I in- funding from the Institute of International maintained by the IU Foundation and vite you to contact me with your news, be Education and from the U.S. Department contributions are fully tax-deductible; for it personal or professional, as well as to visit of State’s Title VIII program and by REEI Indiana residents this amount can even be the department whenever you happen to be director Maria Bucur in being awarded doubled on state returns. They are used for in Bloomington. I wish you all the best. record Title VI funding — now more than a wide variety of activities, such as sup- — Steven Franks 2 Department News

‘Making War, Making Peace’ Welcome Online discussion group open to public this fall New faculty Jacob Emery (PhD, Harvard Univer- uring the fall 2011 semester, Sara Stefani will be conducting an online discussion sity, 2006) was born in Moscow—the Dgroup of Tolstoy’s great novel War and Peace. The discussion group is a co-curricu- small town in northern Idaho, not the lar event that is part of IU’s Themester series. This fall’s Themester topic is “Making War, large city in Russia — and comes to In- Making Peace” — made to order for Tolstoy’s book! The discussion group is co-spon- diana by way of the University of Iowa sored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the REEI. It is open to and , where he has alumni, members of the Bloomington community, and anyone interested in great litera- lectured in the ture. So, if you didn’t have a chance to read War and Peace while at IU, or if you haven’t comparative liter- read it in a while, or if you just feel like reading it again and discussing it with others, ature department consider participating in the group. It is free and open to everyone. Discussions will start since receiving in September; more information will be posted throughout the summer at the group’s his PhD in Slavic. website: www.indiana.edu/~warpeace/. Emery’s disser- tation, “Stock Exchanges: He- redity, Identity, Two receive Neatrour-Edgerton Award and Metaphor in Emery The Neatrour-Edgerton Fellowship Endowment was established in 2003 thanks to the Modernist Slavic generosity of Charles Neatrour, EdD’68. His intent was to create a scholarship for gradu- Literature,” treats the role of kinship ate students concentrating in Russian, in honor both of his late wife Elizabeth (“Betty metaphor in Russian and South Slavic Joy”) Neatrour and our late colleague, teacher, and friend Bill Edgerton. These funds fiction; he has published articles on were enough, however, that in 2005 the department began making annual awards to our topics ranging from the Scandinavian best graduate students. In 2011, due to Neatrour’s continued generosity, we were in the theme in Konstantin Batiushkov to the fortunate position of being able to make an award to excellent students in both literature postmodern novels of Thomas Pynchon, and linguistics: Mag- from the language of exile in Nabokov dalena Mullek and and Ugresic´ to milk kinship in the So- Melissa Witcombe. viet 1920s. Emery is broadly interested Both entered our in rhetoric and figure; science fiction program in 2007. and the fantastic; critical theory and Mullek is concentrat- materialist aesthetics; metafiction and ing in Slavic litera- questions of genre; and he is eager to tures and translation, discover new fields of inquiry at Indiana. while Witcombe is Craig Cravens (PhD, Princeton Uni- concentrating in versity, 1998) taught Czech language Slavic linguistics and culture at the University of Texas at and pursuing a joint Austin before coming to Indiana. His degree with general interests are the linguistics. We con- Czech literary gratulate them both and musical Steven Franks, Magdalena Mullek, and and thank Neatrour underground Melissa Witcombe for his support of during Commu- Slavic scholarship. nism and Rus- sian and Czech literary relations. In the fall, in IU to host FASL meeting in 2012 addition to Cravens Czech language, May 9–12, 2012, the department will be hosting the 21st annual meeting of Formal Cravens will be teaching an introductory Approaches to Slavic Linguistics. FASL is the foremost annual meeting of Slavists and course on Czech culture, C223 Robots linguists working within formal models of language description and analysis, and this and Beer Pubs: Czech Culture from 863 is the third time that FASL will meet in Indiana (the two previous IU-sponsored meet- to 1989. ings were in 1996 and 2000). Steven Franks, who has been closely involved with Barbara Morcinek (PhD, University FASL since its inception, will be organizing the 2012 meeting and can be contacted for of Silesia, 2005) comes to us from the specifics as they become available. In addition to invited lectures by Željko Boškovic´ School of and Culture (University of Connecticut) and Tania Ionin (University of Illinois), this meeting will in the University of Silesia, where she include special workshops on computational applications in Slavic linguistics. has been teaching since 2000. She also (continued on page 8)

3 Faculty Notes

University, Rostov-on-Don, will appear Christina Illias, along with co-authors Faculty notes in Proceedings of the Fourth International Adam Sorkin and Liviu Bleoca, published published two articles Justyna Beinek Congress of Russian Language Researchers. a translation of the poetry of Marta Petreu in 2010: “Making Literature in Albums: Fowler has been supervising undergradu- titled The Book of Anger. Another of her Authorship in Pushkin’s Day” in Toronto ate student David Scofield, who received books, Two Outstanding Romanian Educa- Slavic Quarterly and “Inscribing, Engrav- a $750 grant from the Hutton Honors tors in the First Half of the 20th Century: ing, Cutting: The Polish Romantic Album College to conduct research into Russian Neculai and Elisa Bancea, a Case Study (in as Palimpsest” in The Effect of Palimpsest. advertising, and Scofield plans to continue Romanian), will also be published this year She received a Senior Fellowship grant the research while in St. Petersburg this fall. with Maria Bancea-Ilioaia. Illias was guest from Harvard University’s Davis Center Finally, Fowler continues to direct Slavica speaker on the occasion of Mihai Emines- for Russian and Eurasian Studies for her Publishers. cu’s 160th anniversary in Vienna, . second book project, “Catch Up and Get Steven Franks presented: “Spell–Out There she presented “The Man in the Ahead: The Idea of ‘The West’ in Russian as Interface Optimization” for the IU Lin- Letters,” a study of Eminescu’s previously and Polish Cultures,” for 2011–12. Beinek guistics Club in February; “Individuation, unknown correspondence. also delivered lectures at the Warsaw East Orphans, and Case” at the 17th Balkan and Maria Shardakova recently published European Conference; the Third Interna- South Slavic Linguistics, Literature, and “How to Be Funny in a Second Language: tional Conference in at the Culture Conference in Columbus, Ohio, in Pragmatics of L2 Humor” in Studies on University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and April; “Against Copies: An Autosegmental Language and Culture in the Russophone the Association for Slavic, East European, Call-by-Reference Syntax” (with linguis- World: A Collection of Papers Presented and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES, formerly tics graduate student Josh Herring) at to Dan E. Davidson by his Students and AAASS) in Los Angeles. A volume of es- the SyntaxFest Workshop in June; “Copy Colleagues. Her paper “Cross-Cultural says, co-edited by Beinek with Piotr Kosicki Puzzles: Clitics vs. Intermediate WH and Analysis of the Use of Humor by Rus- (), titled Re-mapping Heads vs. Phrases” at the fifth meeting of sian and American English Speakers” has Polish-German Historical Memory: Physical, the Slavic Linguistics Society in Chicago in been accepted for publication. Shardakova Political, and Literary Spaces since World October; and (also with Herring) “Against presented additional work on her research War II, will be published this fall in the Copies: A Computational Model of Chain into L2 humor at the annual meeting of the Indiana Slavic Studies series. Formation and Spell-Out” at the Linguistic American Association for Applied Linguis- designed and Olena Chernishenko Society of America in Pittsburgh. Franks tics in Atlanta and at the annual meeting taught several new courses, including edited the online journal Glossos 10 (sum- of the Hawaii International Conference on Ukrainian Through Russian, and two Rus- mer 2010: “Contemporary Issues in Slavic Arts and Humanities in Honolulu. sian language courses focused on environ- Linguistics”). The issue includes his paper Miriam Shrager developed two new mental issues. She has also been working “Clitics in Slavic” (see www.seelrc.org/ courses: Russian Folk Tales and Russian for with (Department of Markus Dickinson glossos/issues/10/); he also published a Heritage Speakers. Her paper “Accentua- Linguistics) in designing new online inter- book review in Slavic and East European tion of Masculine Monosyllabic Nouns of active language exercises to be integrated Journal 54.3. Franks organized SyntaxFest Susak Speakers in New Jersey” has been into language course curricula. She orga- 2010 in June and continues to serve as accepted for publication. She has also pre- nized and led a new IU student summer editor-in-chief of the Journal of Slavic sented her work on the Susak speakers of study-abroad program in southwest Siberia, Linguistics. New Jersey at meetings of the International Russia, as part of her work on a three-year Jeff Holdeman spent two summer Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology in partnership grant with Tyumen’ State months conducting fieldwork on Russian Vilnius, , and the Slavic Linguis- University and Tyumen’ State Agricultural Old Believers in , Lithuania, and tics Society. Academy, funded by the U.S. Department (for the first time) Latvia. While there, Sara Stefani’s article “The Unified of Education (see article, page 2). he gave a paper titled “Amerikanskie State and the Unified Mind: Social and published “On Mobile Ronald Feldstein staroobrjadc˘eskie sviazi s Latviej” [Ameri- Moral Utopia in Zamiatin’s We and Plato’s Vowel Stress in Russian, as Influenced by can Old Believer Connections with Latvia] Republic” will be forthcoming in a special Stem-final Consonants” in Baltische und at a conference held in Daugavpils cel- issue of Canadian–American Slavic Stud- slavische Prosodie; a review of Zaliznjak’s ebrating the 350th anniversary of the Old ies. She presented “From the Other Shore: Drevnerusskie ènklitiki in Acta Slavica Iapon- Belief in Latvia. Holdeman was the invited The English Theme and National and ica; and “Nominal Prosodic Paradigms and guest speaker at the 100th anniversary of Historical Identity in War and Peace” at Their Synchronic Reflexes in West Slavic” the Russian Old Believer congregation in the Association for Slavic, East European, in Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics. Marianna, Pa., and, in October, he read and Eurasian Studies annual convention In addition, Feldstein was named to the a joint paper on forging partnerships in this year. She also received the Graduate executive committee of the newly funded college residential living–learning centers at Student Mentor of the Year award for the Language Resource Center at Duke. the Association of College and University 2009–10 academic year. ’s paper “Latinizacija George Fowler Housing Officers-International confer- Ariann Stern-Gottschalk directed rossijskoj reklamy, ili iskljuc˘itel’naja popul- ence in Charlotte, N.C. In January 2011, the 2010 Summer Workshop in Slavic, jarnost’ anglijskogo jazyka” [The Latiniza- Holdeman gave a paper titled “The Fate East European, and Central Asian Lan- tion of Russian Advertising, or the Excep- of a Unique Russian Dialect in Western guages (SWSEEL). She also moderated tional Popularity of English], co-authored Pennsylvania” at the Linguistic Society of the semi-annual Pedagogy Workshop for by Liudmila Amiti of Southern Federal America annual meeting in Pittsburgh. (continued on page 6) 4 Faculty retirements Henry Cooper Ronald Feldstein by George Fowler & by Steven Franks he nature of daily life in the Department of Slavic Languag- Growing up in Newark, N.J., Ronald Feldstein was a linguistic es and Literatures has been permanently altered by Henry prodigy. He started in 1964 but never received TCooper’s retirement in September 2010. He has been one his BA, having been recruited to graduate school at Princeton Uni- of the most prominent members of our family, both nationally and versity after two years in college. Feldstein completed his PhD in internationally, earning respect in academic and government circles 1973, writing on The Prosodic System of Common Slavic. Since then alike. Henry Cooper is a man of many talents. Although at IU he is he has published more than 50 works on several linguistic topics, in best known as a South Slavic specialist (covering Slovene, Bosnian, various journals and other outlets, in multiple languages (Russian, Croatian, and and culture, with an occasional for- Polish, Romanian, and Slovak), and about diverse languages (in- ay into Bulgarian and Macedonian), in his first academic position cluding Bulgarian, Common Slavic, Old Slavonic, Polish, at Northwestern University, he primarily taught . Romanian, Russian, Slovene, and Ukrainian). Feldstein’s unique Few of us can do serious research and teaching across such a broad intellectual gift lies in seeing patterns in the sound structures of spectrum. words where others After receiving his BA in have just seen chaos. Russian literature Summa This ability, coupled cum laude at the City Col- with his love of learn- lege of New York, Cooper ing languages and his went to Columbia Univer- knack for remember- sity for an MA in Russian ing everything about literature. Then he enlisted them, has made him in the U.S. Army, where- into a stellar teacher upon the Army took note of and scholar. the new recruit’s language After Princeton, abilities and assigned him Feldstein started his to counterintelligence first tenure-track as- duties. After his service, sistant professorship at he returned to Columbia, SUNY–Binghamton in receiving his PhD in Octo- 1973. Since first join- ber 1974. First teaching at Henry Cooper, left, ing the Department Northwestern University, and Ronald Feldstein of Slavic Languages he joined our department in and Literatures at IU 1981, was tenured in 1984, Bloomington in 1976 and received promotion to and being promoted to full professor in 1991. full professor in 1986, Cooper has participated tirelessly in administrative work at IU. Feldstein has tutored generations of students in the subtleties of He directed the Summer Workshop in Slavic and East European Slavic languages. He has taught everything from Russian and Pol- Languages twice in the 1980s; served as director of the Russian ish language to introductory general linguistics courses to graduate and East European Institute from 1986 to 1991; and then served seminars, and he has served on the committees of virtually every as acting dean of International Programs in 1991–92. He was chair graduate student pursuing a degree in Slavic linguistics over the of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures from 1991 past 35 years. Feldstein’s excitement about teaching and scholar- to 2002. He guided us through a difficult readjustment in the ship is both inspiring and contagious. His most recent innovation immediate post-Soviet period, when the raison d’être for studying is a Hutton Honors College course called The Life and Times of a Slavic languages lost some of its Cold War strategic orientation. He Russian Genius, which concerns the unusual contributions of the was instrumental in engineering the unique acquisition of Slavica mysteriously murdered historian William Pokhlebkin to Russian Publishers, originally a private corporation, in 1997. In recent years culture and cuisine. Cooper has headed the university’s Retiring Faculty Committee, Feldstein has also been an exemplary departmental citizen — from 2004 until his own retirement this past fall. from directing the Summer Workshop in Slavic and East European Even though Cooper’s list of publications would stretch halfway languages during his first years at IU to spending days preparing to Martinsville, he never skimped on teaching. One alumna wrote: treats from Russian and Polish cookbooks for the receptions he ran “In a quiet way, he offered unparalleled professional mentoring. at his home when he was chair. Since 1983, Feldstein has served as In an era before graduate students regularly published research, he chair or acting chair of the department for a total of 15 years. Time would point to places to publish a particularly good course paper and again the department and the administration have turned to as an article, or to place a translation.” Another noted: “He gave him to lead the department through periods of turmoil. His judi- me excellent advice about job interviews, a professional CV, and cious hires, his creative solutions, his evenhanded temperament, taught me how to make a serious impression on new acquaintances and his talent for seeing everyone’s side brought many years of in the field.” A third mentioned Cooper’s remarkable knack for stability and harmony to the department. speaking in complete, round, impeccably edited sentences. Feldstein will be sorely missed on the fifth floor of Ballantine Henry, all of your colleagues will miss you. As you travel about Hall. His energy, and the relentless enthusiasm with which he still the world, do not forget about Bloomington, IU, and the Slavic approaches all that he does, have kept us buoyant for many years. Department. “Mnogie leta!” We wish him a long, happy, and healthy retirement.

5 Student News

From the director of undergraduate studies

Among our majors are two Phi Beta Kappans (Becky Opportunities abound Baumgartner and Alexandra Clark), 14 Dean’s List students, and 14 Founders Scholars. In May 2011 four undergraduate stu- he 2010–11 academic year has been a banner year for dents were inducted into the Dobro Slovo National Slavic Honor the undergraduate program. As of this spring we have 40 Society (Michael Gabe, Ingrid Nelson, Thomas Parmer, and Tmajors and 23 minors. In the summer of 2010 three double Amanda Plavko). Incoming freshman Chelsea McShurley was majors graduated (Alexandra Hall, Michaelene Hanley, and awarded the Armstrong Scholarship, and graduating senior Becky Jim Kalwara); in the fall four more graduated (Jaclyn Brooks, Baumgartner is our first full four-year Armstrong recipient. We Polina Kostylev, Rose Tryon, and Michael Watson); and this also had 17 students participate in the National Russian Post- spring eight more finished their degrees Nikita( Allgire, Becky Secondary Essay Contest. Baumgartner, Chris Cashel-Cordo, Fred Hendricks, Megan The last decade has seen a great increase in learning opportuni- Kregel, Elizabeth Olson, Matthew Orr, and Ian Priser). ties for our students outside the classroom. One of these is the Participation in study abroad remains strong, with more than 90 World Language Festival, which this year included six Slavic pre- percent of majors completing at least a semester of study abroad. sentations. Another is IU’s Global Village Living–Learning Center, In the summer of 2010, five students studied abroad — in four directed by yours truly and home to 170 students, about 20 of different cities! Four students spent fall 2010 in Petersburg and whom are studying Russian and other departmental languages. another four in spring 2011, while two students (Alexandra Clark Most active among them is the Russian Cluster — a group of 15 and Chris Flynn) are completing academic years in Petersburg. students studying Russian. They gather for Russian-themed events, Nine more students have been accepted for study programs in such as a Russian language hike in the fall, Russian Criminal Tattoo Russia and the for the fall of 2011. In February, Night, a traditional Russian breakfast as part of our “Breakfasts we were honored to have the incoming president of the Council Around the World” series, French-Russian Cross-cultural Night, a on International Educational Exchange, Jim Pellow, and CIEE’s Samovar-side Chat with Paul Richardson, and fieldtrips to Slavica Executive Vice President, Martin Hogan, attend our departmental Publishers and Bloomington’s Euro Deli. study abroad information session. — Jeffrey Holdeman

Faculty notes Literature in English Translation (the mother and grandmother. Her loss dimin- fourth of five fascicles of An Anthology of ishes us all. (continued from page 4) South Slavic Literatures). He also wrote In March 2011, Nina Perlina was invit- the Norwegian Teacher’s Association of festschrift articles on “Humanism in ed to Moscow to take part in a conference North America and participated in several Muscovy” and “Serbian Bible Translations on “Andrey Sinyavsky in the Context of the other conferences, including the American After Vuk,” as well as a commissioned 1960s–70s.” There she presented a paper Association of Teachers of Slavic and East entry for Nineteenth-Century Literary on Sinyavsky’s tale “Little Tsores.” She also European Languages and the American Criticism on the Serbian Enlightenment spoke on “From Historical Poetics to the Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages. writer Dositej Obradovic´. More important, History of the Poet’s Psyche” at a confer- She also developed a new course on Jewish Cooper reports that “retirement rocks.” ence at the University of Chicago in May. culture and history in Poland from the Howard Keller retired in May 2005 Bronislava Volkova published a new 12th to 21st centuries called Jewish Culture and has been quite busy since then. In June book of poetry, an English twin to the in Poland. Finally, Stern-Gottschalk was 2005 he switched his research interests 2010 Czech edition: A pít budem ze studní awarded the Graduate Student Mentor of from teaching Russian as a foreign language lahodných… /And Drink We Will from De- the Year award for 2010–11. to developing teaching methods for high- lectable Wells…. She gave a poetry reading level reading in Latin American literature. in the Czech Republic in Pode˘brady Castle Emeriti news His main activity has been spending two from the Czech version last June and from months each year in Buenos Aires keeping the English version this year in Bloom- In October 2010, Andrew Durkin took up to date with developments in language ington’s Rachael’s Café. In August 2010, part in the “Tolstoi: Alive in Seoul” confer- pedagogy in South America. Buenos Aires Volkova presented a lecture on “The Greats ence sponsored by the Korean Associa- has also provided a base for his consulta- of Czech Popular Culture (1900–2000): tion of Russists. He received an Overseas tion visits to universities in Peru, Chile, and Roots, Character, and Genres” to SWSEEL Conference Grant from the Office of the Colombia. The six retirement years also students, and she has been invited this Vice President for International Affairs saw some family delights: the birth of two summer to read at a Slavic Poetry Festival in order to present his work on “All the grandchildren, Nicholas Keller Rucinski in Varna — her poetry has been recently Problems Are Stated Correctly: Chekhov’s in October 2006 and Alexandra Keller translated into Bulgarian — and in the Response to Tolstoi’s Anna Karenina.” In Rucinski in February 2010. These, and PEN Club in Prague. Even after official Seoul, Durkin also met with alumnae Sae- many other delights, were saddened by the retirement, Volkova continues to teach Ra Yoon, PhD’04, and Bo-Ra Chung, sudden and tragic death of Keller’s wife of and organize Czech activities; this year she MA’05, PhD’09. 41 years, Helga. She died in January 2011, offered a new course on The Wandering Since his retirement at the end of Sep- of a very rare complication of open-heart Jew: Jewish Writers from tember, Henry Cooper has finished and surgery. Helga was a dear friend of the and Exile, presented the Czech Film Series, sent to press An Anthology of Croatian department, a devoted wife, and loving and advised the Czech Club. 6 From the graduate advisors Streamlined programs aid graduate student recruitment

his year we’ve had nine graduate of graduate studies for literature and area will study Macedonian this summer. Both students in the Slavic literatures studies (tracks 1 and 3) in the fall. On the Brigid and new graduate student Ala Si- Tprogram and seven in linguistics. linguistics side (track 2), George Fowler is monczyk taught Russian for the first time Moreover, the revised and streamlined assuming that role in the fall. in our program this past semester. graduate programs introduced last year Graduate students in literature have Finally, we have been working on re- are making us even more competitive in been making good progress toward their vamping our graduate program tracks and recruiting exceptional students: in the fall degrees: first- and second-year students requirements. For example, we completely we will be adding no fewer than seven new have been busy with coursework and two rewrote track 3 (language and ) graduate students! This is a recent record. of them — Natalie Misteravich and Alex to our master’s programs in Russian litera- Newcomers in 2011–12 include: Kate Hunter — have also started teaching for ture and linguistics. This flexible, interdis- Pickering and Stanley Migala, who will the first time, with great success! In April, ciplinary track is designed to allow students be studying Russian and Polish literatures, Misteravich also presented her first confer- to focus on Russian, Polish, Czech, South respectively, as well as Muamera Begovic´, ence paper, at the Midwest Slavic Confer- Slavic, or other Slavic languages and Elena Doludenko, Coady Kleinert, Tyler ence in Columbus. Brian Oches has taken regions. And stay tuned, because more Madsen, and Rose Prince, all in Slavic his PhD admissions exam, and Magdalena new tracks are in the works for next year. linguistics. This fall we are pairing each new Mullek is in the process of taking her quali- All in all, it’s been a busy and productive student with a continuing student men- fying exams and taught first-year Czech year. Our programs are growing, with new tor to make their adjustments to graduate in 2010–11. Bethany Braley is finalizing students and faculty joining us in the fall, school and Bloomington easier. We are her dissertation proposal and is planning new graduate courses offered, new inter- thrilled to welcome our new Russian lit- to carry out dissertation research at the departmental connections forged, and new erature specialist, Professor Jacob Emery, in Cracow, Poland, “user-friendly” changes to our degrees. who in the fall will teach a graduate litera- next year, having won a fellowship through — Justyna Beinek (literature) and ture seminar, “Questioning Genre from the IU–JU graduate student exchange Steven Franks (linguistics) Schlegel to Bakhtin.” Last fall we strength- program. Summer plans for some include ened our bonds with the Department of travel in Russia/, while oth- Comparative Literature when for the first ers will study or teach in SWSEEL. time our incoming students took Professor Among linguistics students, Heather New grad students Eyal Peretz’s Proseminar together with Rice is living in Chicago, dissertating and new students in comparative literature. being otherwise “procreative,” while Brig- • Alexandra Hunter grew up in The experiment was very successful and we id Henry and Melissa Witcombe prepare Iowa and received her BA at the Uni- expect that such pooling of resources will for qualifying exams and Veronika Trotter versity of Northern Iowa. She studies enrich both programs in the future. prepares for her PhD admission exam. and is interested in both Polish and Sara Stefani, who has been with us as Witcombe also spoke on “Slavic Loanword Russian literature, though she still has a visiting assistant professor for the last Adaptation of Front Round Vowels” at the not decided what her specific concen- two years, will start her tenure-track posi- Midwest Slavic Conference. Ksenia Zanon tration will be. Hunter enjoys being a tion and will be taking over as director spent the spring semester in and part of IU’s Slavic department. • Christopher Price was born in Portland, Ore., and from time to time was raised there. He has also lived in Grad student news at the Midwest Slavic Conference at Ohio various places in Eastern Europe and State University in April 2010. She was the American South. He graduated in ethany Braley, a PhD student of Rus- awarded a Title VIII Fellowship to study sian and Polish literature, taught two 2009 from Portland State University B Macedonian in SWSEEL during the sum- with a BA in Russian literature and second-eight-weeks courses: Literature of mer of 2010. She also continues in her Dissent, and Fools and Misfits in Russian language. Price is primarily interested position as managing editor of the Journal in Russian literature, particularly of the Literature. These short courses introduce of Slavic Linguistics, as well as editing ad- undergraduate students to the basics of late 19th and early 20th centuries. ditional books for Slavica Publishers. • Ala Simonchyk is a doctoral stu- literary analysis and to a wide array of liter- Congratulations to Christian Hilchey ary genres in the Russian tradition. Braley dent in Slavic linguistics. She came to and Heather Rice, who gave birth to Indiana University after receiving her recently submitted her dissertation proposal Nathan Michael Hilchey on May 7! and plans to spend the coming academic MA in 2010 from St. Cloud State Uni- Natalie Misteravich just completed her versity in Minnesota. There she wrote year abroad in Poland and Russia for MA (Polish language and area studies) and research purposes. She is also working on a a thesis on the phonological analysis is preparing for her PhD admissions exams of Belarusian-accented English. Before translation project that will be included in a in the fall. This spring Misteravich pre- forthcoming collection of scholarly articles moving to Bloomington, Simonchyk sented a paper titled “From Hopelessness taught English for eight years; now on holy foolishness in the Russian context. to Hope: Polish Cinema and Communist Timothy “Clint” Casteel spent the she works as an associate instructor Reality” at the Midwest Slavic Conference teaching Russian. Her research inter- spring semester studying in Zagreb, , at . In the summer and completed his MA degree in Bosnian/ ests include interlingual phonology she will travel throughout Poland and at- and accented speech. Croatian/Serbian language and area studies. tend an intensive Polish language course at Rosemarie Connolly presented a paper (continued on page 9) 7 Alumni Notebook

ship (for spring 2012) to work on her study 1960s of East Slavic and Carpathian corporeal 1990s Brent M. Froberg, BA’64, MA’65, writes, revenants (better known as “vampires”). Stephen Blackwell, MA’91, PhD’95, “I have just completed my 10th year as Karl M. Petruso, MA’75, PhD’78, is writes from the University of Tennessee a member of Baylor University’s Depart- professor of anthropology and dean of the in Knoxville, where he directs the Russian ment of Classics where I have taught Honors College at the University of Texas program. He will be associate general edi- courses primarily in Greek and in classical at Arlington, where he has taught since tor of Nabokov Complete Works, currently mythology. Early in 2012, I shall celebrate 1990. Since receiving his PhD in classical in negotiations at Oxford. In 2012–13 he the fiftieth anniversary of my induction archaeology in 1978, he has excavated and will be president of the Vladimir Nabokov into IU’s Theta Chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, done archaeological field research in , Society. He is also working on the philoso- the national honorary collegiate society for , Portugal, , and most recently, phy of aesthetics in Russian literature. students of Latin and/or Greek. Gregory Albania. Petruso’s wife, Nancy (Sanneman), Alix Miczulski Lopez, BA’97, writes, J. Nagy, BA’62, also an IU alumnus and BA’72, MA’77, whom he met at IU, is “I have been married for 10 years to Tarsis then president of the Theta Chapter, associate vice chancellor at Texas Christian Lopez, BAJ’96, and I am now a stay- inducted me along with other classmates. I University in Fort Worth. The couple lives at-home mom with a 1-year-old and a serve Eta Sigma Phi as an honorary trustee in Arlington, and their two daughters, 6-month-old, Dylan.” and as manager of the Eta Sigma Phi En- Stephanie and Alexis, live nearby. Donald F. Reindl, MA’97, PhD’05, dowment Fund. I continue to take a keen Barbara McGrath Hayes, BA’76, teaches at the , interest in the Classical Studies program MSW’81, MS’01, is co-editor (with Wil- (continued on page 9) at IU. In 1941, my late mother, Ruth liam Aspray) of two recent books published Lindner Froberg, BA’41, MA’65, took an by the MIT Press. In Health Informatics: A.B. degree in Latin, summa cum laude, A Patient-Centered Approach to Diabetes, Welcome at IU where she studied with Lillian Gay published in October 2010, experts in Berry, Verne Schuman, and Selatie Stout. technology and medicine use diabetes to (continued from page 3) She later completed an M.A. degree, illustrate how the tools of information tech- taught Polish at Tokyo University of and wrote, under the direction of James nology can improve patient care. Everyday Foreign Studies from 2006 to 2009. Halporn, a thesis on women’s roles in the Information: The Evolution of Information She has experience teaching Polish plays of Plautus. Both my mother and I Seeking in America, published in Febru- as a foreign language at all levels, as felt fortunate to have studied in a depart- ary 2011, provides an intimate, every- well as literature and culture courses ment with Norman T. Pratt as its chair- day perspective on information-seeking for Socrates-Erasmus students. In man.” Froberg lives in Waco, Texas. behavior, reaching into the social context addition to authoring scholarly articles of American history and American homes. and presenting on problems of teach- 1970s Hayes is associate dean for administration ing Polish to foreigners, Morcinek Maria Carlson, MA’74, PhD’82, was and planning at the IU School of Informat- is the co-author of a textbook for inducted in 2009 into the Women’s Hall ics at Indiana University–Purdue University upper-intermediate students, Polski of Fame at the University of Kansas, where Indianapolis. She lives in Zionsville, Ind. mniej obcy. She enjoys meeting new she teaches in the Department of Slavic people, broadening her horizons, and Languages and Literatures. She was invited developing new teaching strategies. 1980s “That is why,” she writes, “I am really to IU in September for a reception in , MA’81, PhD’84, writes us Edna Andrews looking forward to meeting my new honor of emeriti faculty Andrew Durkin from , where she is profes- American colleagues and students.” and Bronislava Volkova, and spoke on “The sor of linguistics and cultural anthropol- New Russian Paganism: Lessons from the ogy and director of the Center for Slavic, Book of Veles.” Among other service activi- Eurasian, and East European Studies New staff ties, she currently serves as the executive (CSEEES). In April a ceremony was held Welcome to our new student services committee chair and chair of the board of to award Andrews the Nancy and Jeffrey and summer workshop program the National Council for East European Marcus Professorship (or chair) in Slavic assistant, Erin Biebuyck, MA’09. and Eurasian Research. This year she re- and Eurasian Studies, effective Sept 1. She joins us after completing MAs ceived a Hall Humanities Center Fellow- Congratulations! in REEI and history. Her research focused on gender and sexuality in , and now she is looking Siberia culture with us through a cooking class forward to gaining valuable experi- after our meal. Of course, in between our ence working with SWSEEL and the (continued from page 2) excursions, we spent our time with Russian Slavic department while she prepares (named for these two groups), we stopped students and professors, absorbing as much to pursue her academic interests in the in Tobolsk. There, at the Tobolsk Kremlin, and history as the two- public sphere. Biebuyck is replacing we feasted on traditional Tatar cuisine. week program would allow. Adam Julian, BA’08 (history), who (Russia is home to the majority of ethnic Elizabeth Trammell is an REEI MA leaves us not only to pursue graduate Tatars, with a population of over 5 million student. For more information on the pro- degrees in REEI and SPEA, but also living within its borders.) The owners of gram and its participants visit: www.iub. to spend a Fulbright year in Moldova. the restaurant shared their history and edu/~iuslavic/USRussiaEIProgram.shtml 8 Alumni notebook sworn in as a licensed attorney in the state of in marketing at IU in the spring of 2010. Indiana and in the U.S. Southern District of He still lives in Bloomington with his wife (continued from page 8) Indiana.” Gambill is an associate with Wag- and four children. After graduating from , where he also runs the translation ner Crawford & Gambill in Terre Haute. IU the second time, he started a company, company DEKS d.o.o. He published the Sarah Gilchrist, BA’04, is currently called Third Rail, building mobile applica- following papers: “Mycological Terminology pursuing a master of library science degree tions that are primarily but not limited to in Maks Pleteršnik’s Slovenian-German from the IU School of Library and Infor- learning games for young children. Third Dictionary”; “English, Englishes, and mation Science in Indianapolis. She is a Rail’s first release is pushing 100,000 English English: Reflections on English graduate assistant for the library science downloads on the App Store and has a few in Slovenia”; and “Carniola oživljena: department, conducting research on digital more coming down the pipe. Changing Practice in Citing Slovenian cataloging of educational resources and Bo-Ra Chung, MA’05, PhD’09, is now Regions in English Text.” Reindl made on open-access repositories. This summer teaching at Yonsei and Chungbuk Univer- presentations on “Slavic Postpositions: she will be at IU East in Richmond, Ind., sities in Korea. While she mostly teaches Synchrony, Diachrony, and Language working as a library instruction intern. Russian language at various levels, this se- Contact” and “Language Contact and Amy Zerebnick Lewis, BA’04, complet- mester she is also teaching a literature class, Slavic Languages,” both at the University ed an MA in international development at 20th-century Russian prose, and is enjoying of Bern, Switzerland, in May, and “Bad the in 2008, then it greatly. Last year, she gave a paper on Caves and Good Mountains: The Typology worked at the World Bank in operational “Tolstoi and Modernity: The Question of of Slovenian Toponyms” at a conference in policy and country services. Since July Existence” at the “Tolstoi: Alive in Seoul” Regensburg, , in October. 2010, she has been working as a research conference sponsored by the Korean As- fellow at the Inter-American Development sociation of Russists. 2000s Bank in Washington, D.C., where she lives John Alexander Ippoliti, BA’05, com- with her husband of two years, Dave Lewis. pleted an MA in strategic intelligence from Sue Friedrich White, BA’02, JD’05, is a Colin Nisbet, BA’04, graduated from the American Military University in May. self-employed attorney in Covington, Ind., law school at Case Western Reserve Univer- Tim Kenlan, BA’08, is completing a JD and the program director of the Fountain sity and completed six months of training. at the University of Maine School of Law. County (Ind.) Court Appointed Special At the end of 2010, he moved to Daegu, In 2010, Konstantin Tchergueiko, Advocate Program, an organization that South Korea, to start his career as an at- BA’08, completed a master’s degree in recruits, screens, and trains volunteer child torney in the U.S. Army as chief of client regional studies at , advocates to work in the court system in services. focusing Russia and Eastern Europe. He collaboration with other key agencies, Sae-Ra Yoon, PhD’04, is an assistant lives in New York City. community resources, and legal counsel professor at the Ulsan National Insti- Jeff Truelock, BA’09, just completed to represent the best interests of children tute of Science and Technology, Korea, a master of arts in teaching (MAT) in in juvenile court proceedings. In summer where she teaches literature. She was on secondary mathematics education at Marian 2010, White attended a contemporary art the “Tolstoi: Alive in Seoul” conference University and has been teaching math at class in London hosted by Christie’s Auc- committee and served as a discussant for a Harshman Magnet Middle School in India- tion House. She lives in Covington. panel on “Tolstoi and the Interpretation of napolis since August 2009. Noah L. Gambill, BA’04, writes, “I Interpretation.” This April Yoon traveled Bo Ra Kim, PhD’10, is teaching Rus- attended Hamline University School of Law to Novgorod, Russia, to conduct research sian and Russian syntax at Yonsei and in St. Paul, Minn., and graduated in May on a grant funded by Korea’s National Re- Kyeonsang Universities in Korea. 2008. My wife and I moved to my home- search Foundation. Her Korean translation Anne Rathell, BA’10, is working as a town, Terre Haute, Ind., for the purpose of of Anna Karenina is forthcoming. paralegal at the Public Company Account- practicing law. We have a 2-year-old daugh- Joey Baird, BA’05, completed an MBA ing Oversight Board in Washington, D.C. ter who keeps us busy. In May 2010, I was

Graduate student news inokedy) and presented on a panel “Everyday the Summer School of in Worlds, Everyday Words: Translating the Ljubljana, Slovenia, in July 2010. Wit- (continued from page 7) Quotidian in 20th-Century Prose.” An ex- combe also received a fellowship through the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. cerpt from her translation of Rankov’s novel the American Councils Title VIII Southeast In April 2010 Magdalena Mullek par- was published in The Dirty Goat 24. European Language Training Program for ticipated in translation workshops, includ- Melissa Witcombe, a PhD student in the summer of 2011, which she will use to ing a workshop of her translation of Pavol both the Slavic and Linguistics depart- study Serbian in Belgrade. Rankov’s short story “What Could Dr. ments, presented papers at the Midwest Ksenia Zanon presented a paper at the Thompson Be Dreaming About?” at the Slavic Conferences in both April 2010 and Midwest Slavic Conference at Ohio State fourth Biannual Graduate Student Transla- April 2011. She received a FLAS Fellow- University in April 2010. She also received a tion Conference in Ann Arbor, Mich. She ship to study Serbian for the 2010–11 Karl Ocepek Fellowship in Slovenian Stud- received REEI Mellon support both for this academic year. She also received a Title ies, which she used to attend the Summer trip and to attend the American Literary VIII Portable Fellowship to attend the School of Slovene Language in Ljubljana, Translators Association 2010 Conference in Summer School of Serbian Language in Slovenia, in July 2010. She spent the spring Philadelphia, as well as a Title VIII Por- Belgrade, , in June 2010 and the semester conducting research in Zagreb, table Fellowship in the summer of 2010 Summer School of Serbian Language and Croatia, and plans to study Macedonian for advanced study of Polish at Jagiellonian Culture in Valjevo, Serbia, in August. She in June and July at the 44th International University in Cracow. At ALTA, Mullek read was awarded a Karl Ocepek Fellowship in Seminar on , Litera- an excerpt of her translation from Rankov’s Slovenian Studies, which she used to attend ture, and Culture in Ohrid, . novel Stalo sa prvého septembra (alebo 9 Nonprofit Org. Postage PAID Indiana University Alumni Association

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